Update on previous post. To me it seems the unthinkable has happened; Sanjaya has made American Idol’s top 10 and will now be elligible to tour with the rest of the American Idol top 10.  What’s worse is that he will now be able to work with Gwen Steffani for next weeks show.  That lucky…
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It’s interesting to see how companies fully utilize social media channels to effectively market their offerings.  It’s even more compelling when the benefactors aren’t even involved in the process.  Two such benefactors are Sanjaya of American Idol, and an idie band.
In the case of Sanjaya, www.votefortheworst.com  tries to get as many voters to vote for […]

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With the exposion of Social Media, the upcoming elections and the political process in general will be like we’ve never experienced before.  Most major campains have a presence in Social Networking sites like MySpace’s Impact Channel. John McCain, Barack Obama.  Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich, Rudolph Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Mitt Romney […]

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Paul Kaihla of CNNMoney.com reported today on a new social network that pays users to make job referrals. According to the article, anyone who makes a referral that ends up with a company hiring your contact gets a cut of the project fee.  If someone you bring into the network refers someone else that ends up […]

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A few weeks back Daniel Tynski wrote a post (social media marketing) on SEOmoz.org detailing an experiment effectively utilizing social media to gain links to his website. Basically Daniel’s strategy for gaining links to a page on his site was to write a compelling article which would be hosted on a page on his domain, […]

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Jeremiah Owyang of PodTech.net posed some interesting questions intended for some of is SEO buddies.
Based on my rather small (but always growing) understanding of SEO, these are how I would answer his questions.
Jeremiah’s Question 1)
“Because blogs score high in Google Search results, how does this impact corporations who spend resources on SEO campaigns for their websites?”
Blogs are […]

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Yesterday it was announced that Viacom was suing Google and YouTube for $1 Billion dollars. Talk about going Dr. Evil on someone! ($1 to the first person that can tell me what movie I’m referring to.) Ok so I understand Viacom’s position with trying to protect the content that belongs to them, but they’re forgetting […]

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I can hear it already from readers of this post — What the hell were you thinking in writing that?  Well, I suppose the answer is: —Look at me PacMan… This is me man! ($1 to the first person to correctly tell me where that came from).
The truth is I am by no means THE expert in […]

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