Conversation seems to be the major Buzz word of the day..hour…make that year I guess.  Get engaged and add value and you will be showered with leads and profits. Apparently anyway. It all makes for more genuine relationships online , and if thats all it brings to the table then its worth it.  Have a gander at this handy Linkedin Tips video to see what I’m talking about:

Joining a Linkedin group Conversation is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: The Google Search Side show on Video is my attempt to entratin you with something new! So  here I am going to sum up the problems I see with Google search. The catch is I’m going to do  it with videos slideshows and music. Personal Search: Well this was getting the rounds heavy in the dojo the other daty and well this sums up just how pervasive Personal Search is. Goes beyond Cookies is at least IP aware, specially if you have any Google account… and other than my brother I don’t know anyone who doesn’t. Google Social Strategy: Fails miserably because it’s now creating “the follower…

Google SEO Side Show on Video! is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Creating something original doesn’t necessarily mean you need a massive budget or some new (and expensive) technology. Usually it takes a little creative thinking, out side the box, and of course a video camera.  Coca Cola have done a great job in getting some excellent branding views with this viral video currently doing the rounds on Youtube. Having set up a coke dispensing machine in a cafeteria they filmed the reactions of students in a kind of Big Brother, unscripted, and very natural way and it worked a treat.  Having a body of people interact with their product and end up smiling…

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Excerpt: With the addition and rising popularity of Foursquare.com in the social scene, businesses have entered yet another new world of marketing. In this virtual community, customers aren’t just talking about your business, they’re using it. They can become the mayor, meet their friends, and find the best locations to eat, sleep, drink, and be merry. The Ups and Downs of Foursquare This online community/’game’ could easily create a strong customer base for businesses that choose to embrace the concept. As Foursquare recommends on its website, businesses can encourage participation in the community and visits by offering small incentives such as a discount,…

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Excerpt: The Title is somewhat true but it’s not just Twitter,  Social Media and Networking sites are affecting blog engagement and comments in particular. Social Media is partially responsible and was definitely a catalyst for change in the habits of the linkeroti (not a spelling mistake think link rot) and according to some stats and forecasts this could get worse before it gets better. This is the second post on blog engagement with more to come! In the first Twitter: Blog Engagement Killer or Lazy Linkeratti? I discussed the phenomena of decreasing blog engagement on one of my favorite blogs. I first started to think about this…

In 2009 Twitter Put Blog Engagement into a Death Spiral is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: This post was started right after the ReTweet changes were made… alas before I could finish the RT was rolled back and releases out of Beta! Believe it or not I was continuing with the 3 Stooges theme from the Twitter Lists post for the dev team… in fact the video is a Stooges Classic “The Plumbers”! Twitter Tries To Change Retweets, Doesn’t Get The Social In Social Media was pretty condemning of “the boys” basically saying they didn’t know their audience. MilwaukeeSEO did consider both sides of the story and did defend “the boys” to some extent. I think Twitter do in fact know their users all…

Twitter Ads or Forced ReTweet Etiquette? is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Chances are we have never met because I seldom go to seminars and other SEO networking events, forums or discussion. I was thrilled to be given a chance to work with so many talented copy writers, bloggers, innovative web developers, Social Media consultants and marketers! I’m a Napoleon Hill disciple and Think and Grow Rich is like a bible to me. I have not had a Matermind Group lately so the CloudMixer group is filling a void I’ve felt for a time.  My philosophy on life is simple: What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve. Napoleon Hill~ Think…

Terry Van Horne, Internet Marketing Master, Social Media Consultant and Cloudmixer Author is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Generally I’m not a big fanboy of the Twitter development team, management’s business capabilities/acumen, or a believer that twitter is much more than the future property of one of the big boys! Twitter lists are the first truly great development to come from this team in a while. They are bringing the functionality of  Tweetdeck groups to Twitter.  Anne Smarty did a post on the uses for twitter lists. Although these are useful for promotion (nothing wrong with that) the benefit of lists to users are many fold. As a developer I can think of 1/2 doz. things on the promotion side…

Twitter Dev: Rockin’ da Lists Hard! is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Having caught a tweet this morning from @millerian regarding a change in the Linkedin Public Profile URL I checked out the post he linked to on Search Engine Chocolate and began my usually 10 minutes of head scratching and wondering what the hell was going on. It seems that the public URL structure we have become accustomed to on linkedin has incorporated a Geo-location type attribute in the link structure and I couldn’t quite figure out why they made this change from a usability perspective and because, as Joanna Butler explains it actually makes the process of connecting and networking on…

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Excerpt: Social media as I understand it is about engaging your audience to learn their concerns, needs and wants through human discourse and interaction. To start this post I pose this question: after reading a post if your visitor leaves a tweet instead of a comment has the goal above been achieved? The other day, Shaun over at Hobo Web posted a great piece on his feeling that the “linkerati” are linking less with more discretion and how twitter is affecting comments on blogs. It was that post that started me on the path to considering the ramifications of adding twitter to comments of blogs. I had been noticing less engagement…

Twitter: Blog Engagement Killer or Lazy Linkeratti? is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas