I was watching something on television last week when this ad from Kaplan University came on and I was struck by how similar education and social media is becoming.
Help your content travel – Unlike much of SEO, SMO is not just about making changes to a site. When you have content that can be portable (such as PDFs, video files and audio files), submitting them to relevant sites will help your content travel further, and ultimately drive links back to your site.
More than four out of 10 women in their 40s surveyed in October by SheSpeaks had a social networking profile. And over 70% of women with children ages 13 to 17 had talked about products on social networks, compared with 62% of all responding women.
“40-somethings are active users and members of online social networks,” said Aliza Freud, CEO of SheSpeaks, in a statement. “These women have started to use the Web and social networks in ways that mirror the rest of their lives—from finding out about a product to shopping or monitoring their children’s activities.”
Here are some of the social media stories that have caught my attention recently.
Looks like Twitter has decided that selling ads will not be one of their revenue streams. Source: LA Times
Facebook Still Valued At $15 Billion? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits down with TechCrunch and reveals that the social networking giant is looking for more funding in the $15 billion valuation range, a price that was set when Microsoft purchased a 1.6% stake in the company for $240 million in the Fall of 2007. “We’re not actively going around trying to raise money from a lot of different people. It’s more just a follow on to that (previous round),” Zuckerberg said. Source: TechCrunch/Silicon Alley Insider
This is not a social media post. Lung Cancer is a disease that hit home to be in 2001 when my wife, a non-smoker, was diagnosed with it. Her story can be found on her Time For Living web site.
The Marketing & Online Communities Conference will be held at the exclusive Tribeca Grand in New York City on November 5th, 2008. The conference will bring together thought leaders from the marketing and online community sectors to discuss marketing challenges – and unprecedented opportunities – in online communities.
Registration price for this year’s event is $845 but social media optimization readers get $200 off of both the early bird discount price of $795 (until Nov. 5th) and the regular admission price of $845.
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Rae’s case study is about a a BlackBerry related website called BBGeeks . BBGeeks has had a Twitter account for around eight months now and has grown from zero to over 500 followers in that time. For a web site targeting a very niche market, this is pretty impressive.
Ten days of hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, amusement parks and concerts and I am well rested and somewhat ready to return to work:)
While on vacation I read with interest the editorial in BtoB that Forrester Research is reporting that the number of b-to-b blogs started by corporations fell by nearly half from 2006 to 2007 and that the decline in new launches is expected to continue this year.
Why are corporations starting fewer b-to-b blogs? Because they don’t the concept of what a blog is about. A blog is not a place for only new-product happy talk, recycled press releases and customer success stories. Making this content accessible via an RSS button will not make it viral!
I was reading in Advertising Age Cartier, a brand better known for diamond necklaces and $10,000 watches, will advertise its latest collection, Love by Cartier on MySpace,
Now this is not the first time that a luxury brand has hooked up with a social network. Last year I blogged about how Neiman Marcus had picked YouTube as a place to publicize its 100-year anniversary.
What surprised me where comments by Travis Katz, managing director-international operations for MySpace.
Travis was talking abut MySpace demographics and he claimed that:
One of the best things about a blog is that you get to talk about and exchange ideas on what is working and not working in social media. That is good.
The downside is that by sharing you might wake up one morning and find out that the tactics(s) that you have been using successfully no longer work. Either because the search engines manually adjusted your site, or because a lot of people started to use that tactic thus devaluing it.
This is a topic that Aaron Wall at SEObook.com wrote about today and Brent Csutoras wrote a great post on Shoemoney.com recently about over sharing.
A Deloitte & Touche study earlier this year looked at the different activities that users do online by age. The data is fascinating look at how we interact online.
The younger the user, the more likely he or she was to read or keep a blog on a weekly basis. For example, 55% of millennials (ages 13 to 24) surveyed read a blog, and the percentages declined for every age cohort in the study until reaching just 16% for matures (ages 61 to 75).
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