When was the last time you took a good hard look at your tagging strategy? I know, you called the doctor and had that looked at last month. We kind of take tags for granted these days. Seems like every news story, blog post, video, social network and Tweet has tags attached. And with good reason. Ta...

Bo Diddley, the pioneering rock n’ roll genius who died yesterday knew a thing or two about marketing and branding. Consider this: Ellas McDaniel re-dubbed himself as Diddley, had his first hit record with a song called “Bo Diddley� (the first of many times he would work his new name into a so...

Hiya Kids. I suppose I am a bit late on this one huh? Hey, I am in SEO, not SMM so ‘buzz monitoring’ isn’t exactly my forte ;0) – heck, turns out I registered here long ago and drifted away… neat. I am fortunate to talk a lot with some folks in the SMM game and those articles reflected my ongoi...

SM is not paved with gold nor does SMM cure cancer. I am shocked, another delusion bubble popped. Pardon my grumpy synopsis. Web wanderer and renaissance man (great tag line), David Harry, does a much nicer and far more coherent, cohesive, and comprehensive investigation of the claims and realities ...

I suspect it'll as hard to get on the front page of Yahoo Buzz, let alone Yahoo, than on Digg's homepage, as the traffic these sites provide is different. Digg provides 5-30k at best, Yahoo drove 1mil/day. Note the difference As such, you can see the sources they have chosen to display at th...

Good point Ruud! As I've said before Forums and Message boards are the "grand daddy" of all social media. Social media by concept isn't new... at all, the buzz term "social media" is. Social media isn't limited to just things like twitter or digg. There's a wh...

QUOTE Isn't that like asking us to think of a business that would be better off without word of mouth? Yes, if we asked "what business would be better off not spending time trying to generate word of mouth". Word of mouth is something that is VERY hard to force, and not something you c...

QUOTE I shake my head because it really seems like there's just something really missing ..... perhaps though because I'm immersed in all three areas, I can see value social media, true definitive value But for whom? Every single business? I am sure you don't believe that, but yet there ...

QUOTE Michael, in this very case, social media marketing has proven that it can drive plenty of links and consequential traffic and sales Well, no it hasn't It has certainly shown that it can generate links, but usually NOT to sites that kinda need them to up sales. Don't get me wrong, some ...

Oh internet tubes, how do I use thee? Let me count the ways. In 2006, my social media diet was fairly basic. I regularly consumed and produced content on YouTube, Flickr, Gmail and Myspace. It wasn’t hard to find and organize the information I was consuming/publishing–because it was a re...