YouTube isn’t just for sharing family videos with friends anymore.  Many businesses are using YouTube for instructional videos.  In fact the IRS is jumping on the YouTube train and has posted 112 informational videos on YouTube. I have reviewed a few and they seem to give the viewer bare bones information concerning a specific topic.  The researcher would still need to wade through the IRS instructions and publication to get the rest of the story.

Not only does the IRS use YouTube but they also use Twitter, Facebook, a smartphone app called IRS2Go, and audio files for Podcasts.  Honestly, I still don’t get the whole twitter thing.  I have enough problems keeping track of my own appointments, to-do lists, staff and family responsibilities then to care about what Lady Gaga is up to never mind a new IRS pronouncement.  But then again, when I grew up social networking meant talking on a CB radio to neighbors and passing truckers.  10-4 good buddy!