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Seth's Blog: What sort of accent do you have?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:17:30 -0600

Not only the way you speak—but the way you write and act. More than geography, accents now represent a choice of attitude.

Let’s define an accent as the way someone speaks (writes, acts) that’s different from the way I do it. So, if I’m from Liverpool and you’re from Texas, you have an accent, I don’t.

via sethgodin.typepad.com

Seth Godin shares a phenomenal post on “accents.” I was with him right up until the end when he closed with “Y’all come back soon, y’hear.”

I mean, come on Seth. People in Boston don’t have accents? Mid-westerners don’t? How about New Yorkers. Apparently, you’ve never been to Brooklyn.

Picking on us Southern folk is easy…and a cheap shot. We’re not all Larry the Cable Guy you know!

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The Easiest Way to a First-Page Ranking on Google

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:24:06 -0600

So how can you optimize your online videos? The agencies and search engines I’ve talked to offer a number of different tips:

Insert keywords into your video filenames.

Host your videos on YouTube, and embed those YouTube videos into your own site. Google says its algorithms consider how many times a video is viewed, and any views embedded videos receive on your own site get added to the ‘views’ tally on YouTube. (And yes, nearly every video we saw Google blend into its results came from YouTube.)

Optimize your YouTube videos by writing keywords into your videos’ titles, descriptions, and tags.

Embed videos into relevant text pages on your site. The context provided by the text on those pages (which is hopefully already optimized for search as well) will help the search engines figure out what your videos are about.

Also create a video library on your site, so Google knows where to find your video content. (Google Video Sitemaps can help with this too.) Write keyword-rich annotations for each video in the library.

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Good pointers on how to optimize online video for search.

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Marketing Benefits of Using a Blog, Part 2 of 2

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:50:32 -0600

Here’s the 2nd part of the 2-part series discussing the marketing benefits of using blogs.

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Marketing Benefits of Using a Blog, Part 1 or 2

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:47:11 -0600

This is part 1 or a 2-part video series I did a few months ago sponsored by Broker Agent Speakers Bureau. It talks about the marketing benefits to using a blog.

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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:06:42 -0600

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Google Voice transcript of message from my mom regarding surgery she’s having next week. Obviously, I needed to listen to the actual message to understand what the heck she was actually saying. GV, got a little work to do on understanding dialects! :-)

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Twitter is Coming to LinkedIn, But Should It?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:18 -0600

The New York Times is reporting that Twitter and LinkedIn are joining forces. I can understand LI’s incentive for adding tweets, but question whether it’s really in their best interest to have tweets like “Time to watch Monk. It’s the last season.” or “I rode a Greyhound bus once when I was 18 and it taught me to never ride a bus again as long as I live.” on what is an otherwise professionally-oriented social network. I mean, really, do we? In my view, this is an oil-water mix.

It’s not that LinkedIn should be exempt from Twitter mania, other than that it has set itself up as a site for professionals that is strictly business.

The Times says, “The partnership with LinkedIn affirms Twitter’s role as a network for professional conversation.” That would be fine if all we used Twitter for was professional conversation, but you know better than that.

Some questions for you…

1. Will this integration cause us to be more guarded in what we say on Twitter? Will we be less open to casual conversation?

2. Does this signal a shift in the way we view Twitter, seeing it even more as a tool for business-oriented conversations? Has Twitter grown up, so to speak?

Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s chief executive, said that he wants “LinkedIn to be the hub for all professional conversation,” according to the Times article. That’s fine, so long as he is willing to accept everything else that comes with it, including what I had for dinner!

What do you think? Is Twitter appropriate for a social network like LinkedIn?

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