YouTube Is Giving Away $35,000 To Anyone Who Wants To Be A YouTube Star

YouTube is giving up to 25 up-and-coming partners, with less than 300,000 subscribers, $35,000 to become the next big YouTube stars.

The initiative, called YouTube NextUp, also includes a four-day "YouTube Creator Camp" and the partners' channel and videos will be promoted on the site.

It makes sense for YouTube to promote its partners as some of them have become millionaires because of their videos. Google's recent acquisition of Next New Networks is also meant to help existing YouTube partners. Next New Networks will act as a management team for partners to make more and better videos.

You can find out more about the YouTube NextUp program here.

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YouTube Is Giving Away $35,000 To Anyone Who Wants To Be A YouTube Star

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How to Become a Security Star

There are specific steps you can take to position yourself as a security expert worth hiring. Five steps, to be precise, according to NetworkWorld.

1. Be a business person first, a security pro second.

The most important thing for a job-seeking security professional to recognize today is that security needs to be seen as an enabler, so it's crucial that your resume reflect that mindset.

Security isn't there to stop things from getting done. It's there to help get things done safely.

2. Distinguish yourself and your 'brand.'

The idea is not to come across as a security geek, but as an executive geek who can relate to the executives who are interviewing and ultimately hiring you.

3. Emphasize accomplishments up high, not education and training.

Don't obsess over technical accomplishments like the programming languages you know and the certificates you've received. Use that classic resume advice and describe accomplishments with quantifiable results.

4. Don't embellish.

It's more classic advice, but especially relevant in an insular world where one CTO may very well know another and will happily double check your resume.

5. Consider getting a mentor.

If your resume isn't getting the attention you hoped it would get, look for a mentor who is in a career - and at a level - you hope to be at some day.

Mentors are always good to have, especially in this quickly evolving field where yesterday's talents may need to be improved for today's challenges.

-- Don Willmott

How to Become a Security Star

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The Radar: Star Wars Travel, Unusual Berlin Hotel, TNI Canadian Rockies

• Most travelers today are familiar with the iconic travel posters of the art deco era, advertising Monaco's Grand Prix and Rio's sunny beaches. It's the kind of art that makes you wistful for a ride on a PanAm flight or... the Millennium Falcon? Illustrator Steve Thomas has created these hilarious and fabulous Star Wars-inspired travel posters that combine the films' out-of-this world destinations with the art deco glamour of travel's yesteryears. Now about getting that light saber through security... [Paste Magazine]

• Guests at Berlin's Propeller Island City Lodge will find unusual rooms designed in themes ranging from the wacky to wild. In the coffin room, sleep under a closed lid or sleep securely in jail-cell themed diggs. [Spot Cool Stuff]

• Twitter's TNI (Travelers' Night In) is this afternoon from 3:30-5:00pm Eastern, sponsored by Banff Lake Louise Tourism. Follow along and tweet to win awesome prizes including a three-day heli-hiking adventure in the Canadian Rockies, and a photo op with the Banff Squirrel. [ZipSetGo.com]

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Illustrations courtesy of Steve Thomas

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