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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
“If you’re tired of the avatar-scene and are looking for a long-term commitment, perhaps it’s time to settle down with a single avatar. Or if you feel your avatar is going nowhere - maybe it’s time to break up.”
Read more Is it Time to Break Up With Your Avatar? - Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
Tags: socialmedia
Getting Our Forums Up-to-Date
Monday, May 5th, 2008
“Message boards haven’t changed in almost 25 years. There simply hasn’t been any real innovation - and that’s why there’s so much “real” social media out there that’s exploding right now. The stuff is so radically different from traditional mediums such as forums that everyone is missing the core of what social media is: community engagement and interaction”
So here are suggestions to improve things…
Read more Forums Are Social: But We Need Stuff | Eric Martindale
Tags: socialmedia
Fake It Til You Make It
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008I’m expanding upon this article by Jonathan Fields. (Jonathan Fields - awake@thewheel) which I saw submitted in Sphinn.
His intent was to give us some tell tale signs of how to separate the experts from all the others.
One of the lines that stuck out like a sore thumb was when he said,
“There’s an old saying in personal-development and even in business…fake it until you make it. And, there are times where that’s appropriate.Problem is, there are other times where the substantial volume of direct, indirect and social proof strongly contradict your claims, undermine your credibility and, rather than bolstering your authority and appeal, make you look downright silly and untrustworthy. They reveal you as a fake.”
Hmmm..Fake it til you make it, doesn’ t have to mean you are a liar, a cheat, or otherwise deceitful. If this is true..well, you’re not faking it. You just ARE.
His further suggestions on how to note the success vs failure of the blogosphere is somewhat misguided. Especially considering the still yet evolving avenues that social media has begun.
True, what he suggests can be useful to some degree, but he overlooked quite a bit as times are changing.
For example, in addiction recovery environments, the ‘fake it til you make it‘ motto is meant to be an an admonishment that healthy habits can become second nature if they keep on keeping on. This motto is a tool that enables one to discard old habits and inhibitions until the ‘expert’ can step in and show it’s true colors.
Social Media With Mafia Mentality
Monday, April 28th, 2008After some thought, I’m now a member of the Social Media Mafia..
“A mentality that, and we’ve all experienced this first hand, of something bigger and better, something worth much more than money, where money may actually be the by-product of the system.”
Read more Social Media Is Based On Mafia Mentality | Chris Hambly
Tags: socialmedia mafia, social media
Blogging Is Like Karaoke
Monday, April 28th, 2008Li Evans writes a terrific analogy comparing the similarities between blogging and karaoke.
“There’s a lot that you have to overcome in karaoke, just as you do in blogging. You have to be able to take the criticism with the applause. You need to realize and know what works and what doesn’t (honestly, I really just can’t do rap!), and there’s likely a few other thousand minute things that can compare blogging with karaoke.” says Li
Tags: blogging
Establishing Prominence In The Blogosphere
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Hans Viens did a terrific job on this Search Engine Journal guest post. He is very thorough in his examination of techniques that should be taken advantage of if you are attempting to establish prominence with your blog.
“The goal of this post is precisely to present how you could build a large and engaged audience by developing different distribution channels.
Those channels will be presented as the following:
1. The blog community channels
2. The authority based channels
3. The social media channels
4. The search based channels
5. The advertisement channels
6. The offline channels”
Read more The Secret to Developing a Popular Blog
Tags: blogging, authority, social media, search, marketing
To Guest Blog or Not to Guest Blog..hmmm
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Is guest blogging worth considering? Can it drive traffic? Bring an eventual increase in conversion? Enhance the potential for loyal readership?
For James Duthie of Online Marketing Banter, it’s brought quite a bit of positive change.
Read more Guest blogging - A real life case study | Online Marketing Banter
Tags: blogging, social media
Is SEO Becoming More Social?
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Aaron Wall is providing a ‘members only’ video regarding SEO vs social activity.
Read more SEO is a Social Activity 
: SEO Book.com
Tags: seo, social media
Stop Selling and Start Giving
Thursday, April 17th, 2008There is so much advice and how-to’s in the endless rivers of marketing terrain that make reference to the world of social media.
Oooh, social media, so mysterious and new..should i? Shouldn’t I?
We constantly read posts about
- How to drive your business to the top with social media strategies
- How to use social media to increase traffic and readership
- 10 ways to improve ROI with social media tactics
- What social media can do for ‘YOU’ (meaning ‘ME’, of course)
Without ever reading the content, I can almost narrow down the writers scope and main focus.
Marketing
Uh..hello?
Is it just me, or is there a “Social Media” piece that’s somehow being overlooked here?
Addressing the ’social’ in social media..
I too am navigating through the maze of suggestions given by the masses that promote social media endeavors.
There are posts that uncover the most powerful potentials of social media use. They manage to successfully dive into the wild blue abyss of the all feared, overlooked, and untapped level of social media that can only be GIVEN as opposed to sold:
- Friend Promotion - Step 3 of Authority Building by Jeff Quipp
- Social Media Friendship Bill of Rights (and other sticky wickets) by Marty Weintraub
- How To Get More Visitors For Your Blog Without Social Media Marketing by Tad (the sombrero wearing SEO 2.0)
- 21 Traffic Triggers for Social Media Marketing by Brian Clark
What Is The Social Media Friendship Bill of Rights?
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Some solid advice by one of the coolest people I know, Marty Weintraub of AimClear Blog.
“Choose friends carefully and approach others with respect yourself. Lose friends who make way too much noise. Set an example for your community with the content you bookmark, recommend, and traffic for amusement and profit. Keep The Social Media Friendship Bill of Rights in mind on both sides of the friendship aisle.”
Tags: social media, friendships
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