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#InCaseYouMissedIt: #MDG’s #SEO On #OWNING that #Voice {#MMS #LATISM #TOGS} (LiveTwittering)

24 Jan

Remember; this is to be read “Backwards” the BOTTOM tweets are the FIRST ones…

Want to Hear it?

Here!

#Enjoy!

  1. #MDG‘s #SEO “Other side? #IdentityTheft? For #MajorBrands? Tools to #LockDown across… #OWNING that #Voice? Messy!” {#MMS #LATISM #TOGS} 41 minutes ago from TweetDeck
  2. Delete

  3. #MDG‘s #SEO “Company should have a #Twitter account?… What do you want to say to them in the long run?” {#MMS #LATISM #TOGS} 42 minutes ago from TweetDeck

  4. Delete

  5. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Twitter DOES allow you to become an incredibly #Authoritative #Voice… ” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} 43 minutes ago from TweetDeck

  6. Delete

  7. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Twitter‘s speed is #NonPareil… BEWARE: Cannot Unring the Bell!… Avoid #Reactive!” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} 44 minutes ago from TweetDeck

  8. Delete

  9. #MDG‘s #SEO “#ReputationManagement and #SocialMedia… #Trendistic… #Buzzword and #Pop… Spike!” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} 45 minutes ago from TweetDeck

  10. Delete

  11. #MDG‘s #SEO “#ContextualRelevancy… be #Discoverable and #Share-able… #Positive = #Credibility” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  12. Delete

  13. #MDG‘s #SEO “#SME‘s – Subject Matter Experts… Background… Contact… @FourSquare? = GEOGRAPHY!” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  14. Delete

  15. #MDG‘s #SEO “Being in the Know kind of People… ” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  16. Delete

  17. #MDG‘s #SEO “#SocialMedia REQUIRES a Full #Strategy BEFORE #Deployment… #KoreanBBQ Story” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  18. Delete

  19. #MDG‘s #SEO “#SocialMedia IS your #Company‘s #Brand‘s #VOICE (#Trust-Driven)… #Credibility” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  20. Delete

  21. #MDG‘s #SEO “#PermissionBasedMarketing: #Email, #SMS #SocialMedia sites… #Relevant as #FollowUp” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  22. Delete

  23. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Search Engines ‘like’ #301 (on #ErrorMesages; #Customized…” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  24. Delete

  25. #MDG‘s #SEO “#TermExtractionTools … #Redirects and #Subdomains… Relocating Pages.. ” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  26. Delete

  27. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Keywords need to be #Topically related… they’ll #Tweet about it: write for people!” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  28. Delete

  29. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Keyword needs to be more #Natural occurrence of the #Phrase; write for your user” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  30. Delete

  31. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Keywords in your #URL? Phenomenal!… ” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  32. Delete

  33. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Image Searches is secondary, yet SEO Driven…” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  34. Delete

  35. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Keyword relates to it being #Contextual-ly #Relevant to the #Search Engine” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  36. Delete

  37. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Flash-only Sites are a big no-no when it comes to #SEO… No way to crawl them.. ” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  38. Delete

  39. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Accesibility is also key when using #AltTags and #Titles in your HTML – Impairments” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  40. Delete

  41. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Metadata for #Images? Way you use your #AltTag #Titles gets you more #Traffic” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  42. Delete

  43. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Keyword? AT LEAST change your TITLE on the page #Metadata-wise” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  44. Delete

  45. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Keyword incorporation is #Crucial: Evolves over Time, too… (#Iterate?)” {#MMS #PalmBeachesDotOrg #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  46. Delete

  47. #MDG‘s #SEO “#Keyword #Research >>> #Google AdWords External Keyword Tool <<< ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  48. Delete

  49. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Usability? do SOME of it; dangerous to avoid; earlier? better! – #InformationArchitecture” {#MMS #PalmBeaches #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  50. Delete

  51. #MDG‘s #SERP “Done ur #Usability #Testing? Even via Paper #Prototypes… #SilverBack!” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  52. Delete

  53. #MDG‘s #SERP “Done ur #Usability #Testing? Even via Paper #Prototypes… #SilverBack!” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  54. Delete

  55. #MDG‘s #SERP “i.e. #FluPreparedness… VERY high #CTA… on Coverall.Com’s #MicroSite.” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  56. Delete

  57. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Domain #Microsites MAY help you get #SEO Rankings; #LowerCompetition…” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  58. Delete

  59. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Domain Specificity targets a SINGLE audience on a SINGLE topic… #CTA ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  60. Delete

  61. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Domain Specificity ranks higher on #Google Searches… Great #Strategy ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  62. Delete

  63. #MDG‘s #SERP “#CTA via #BannerAds that led ONLY to #Microsite; specific #Domains too ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  64. Delete

  65. #MDG‘s #SERP “#CTA‘s on #Microsite with SPECIFIC #Topicals in mind are KEY!… ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  66. Delete

  67. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Credibility: i.e. www.Coverall.Com = #H1N1 Information = #CTA (#PSA?) ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  68. Delete

  69. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Credibility via #Personalization for #CTA = higher conversion rates ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  70. Delete

  71. #MDG‘s #SERP “#CTA can be a #MicroSite (i.e. #RitzCarlton in #Jupiter)… Specifics” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  72. Delete

  73. #MDG‘s #SERP “Shall We Go Somewhere More Private… #WhiteListing #PURL‘s, #Getaways” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

  74. Delete

  75. #MDG‘s #SERP “Q: Are users being nimble enough? A: The smart ones are!… ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  76. Delete

  77. #MDG‘s #SERP “#WebTrends… #CrazyEgg.Com… on Confetti Mode… #GoogleAnalytics” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  78. Delete

  79. #MDG‘s #SERP “#HeatMapping / #ClickMapping: Shows User Behaviours and Aggregates” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  80. Delete

  81. #MDG‘s #SERP “#PathAnalysis? How long does it take users to get to #CTA? #Optimization” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  82. Delete

  83. #MDG‘s #SERP “#HeatMapping = #Usability; Spikes? May want to review how it’s presented” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  84. Delete

  85. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Analytics” #BounceRate?… #Technographics #HeatMapping = #Usability” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  86. Delete

  87. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Analytics? #Behavior? #Clickthroughs? Missing the -proverbial- Boat! ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  88. Delete

  89. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Actionable & #CTA has to tie back to your #PERSONAL #Brand… ” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  90. Delete

  91. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Brand #Experience via #SocialMedia goes back to #CTA \ #Actionable” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  92. Delete

  93. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Brand #Experience: Consider the #ShareFactor! = ^SM #SocialMedia…” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  94. Delete

  95. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Brand #Experience? Provide the audience with #SPECIFIC #CTA‘s… ^SM” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  96. Delete

  97. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Uncluttered yet #SEO Friendly… #Flash and #Images? #Brand #Experience” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  98. Delete

  99. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Targeted sites are more focused on the #CTA (Call To Action) function” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  100. Delete

  101. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Sites that are #Information based: #Search function is key… targeted” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  102. Delete

  103. #MDG‘s #SERP “#Google favors those older #Domains… #Bloggers also linkback… #Press” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  104. Delete

  105. #MDG‘s on #SERP “#Google favor Older #Domains… #Information #Architecture flattened” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  106. Delete

  107. #MDG‘s on #SERP “#Minimalistic; based on #Navigation: Use your Real Estate wisely…” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  108. Delete

  109. #MDG‘s on #SERP “Case Study: www.Coverall.Com… Rebuilt based on primary audience…” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  110. Delete

  111. #MDG‘s on #SERP “Interest level determines whether they will mine site for more…” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  112. Delete

  113. #MDG‘s on #SERP “#TMI Bogs down the Home Page… Define Critical Key Tasks for each.” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  114. Delete

  115. #MDG‘s on #SERP “#TMI depends on your Audience… Common Sense…. FOR All Audiences” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  116. Delete

  117. #MDG‘s on #SEO / #SERP #CTA “Brand Recognition * Legitimacy / Trust * Interest Level” {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  118. Delete

  119. #MDG‘s on #SEO / #SERP #CTA “First impressions are key” (and made only once!) {Re: #MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org #LATISM #TOGS} about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  120. Delete

  121. #MDG‘s Talk on #SEO / #SERP #CTA (Call-to-Action) #GoogleMaps is “naturally free” (Claim your listing) (#MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org ) about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  122. Delete

  123. #MDG‘s Charlie Ellis on “Usability meets Accesibility” #CTA – Call to Action = #GoogleMaps within #SERP (#MMS #Local www.palmbeaches.org ) about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  124. Delete

  125. Charlie Ellis on “Usability meets Accesibility” #CTA – Call to Action within SERP (#MMS #LocalSources www.palmbeaches.org #MDG #SERP #SEO) about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  126. Delete

  127. www.palmbeaches.org hosts #MDG‘s Lunch and Learn on “Usability meets Accesibility” (#MMS #LocalSources) about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  128. Delete

Via @ExaminerCom: #BREAKING LOCAL NEWS!… Downtown’s Got Talent, Winner of the Kickoff Session, Friday 01/15/10!

17 Jan

(As posted on @ExaminerCom Today… Here’s for my Facebook Notes to be Updated)

…. here’s a FULL Video selection of EVERYONE who came and participated! Come and VOTE for your Favorites, too!

Watch Friday’s (01/15/10) performances and comment to vote for your “Facebook Fan Favorite” Contest…

http://www.facebook.com/video/?oid=269534585125

…. Winner to be announced on 01/22/10!

Downtown’s Got Talent

Season Two Opener

20100115

FYI:

These are the OFFICIAL videos that ALL our FACEBOOK FANS are to use to cast THEIR VOTE online.

Where? Here! http://www.facebook.com/video/?oid=269534585125

Their comments THERE (on the Event Page’s Videos) will be tallied starting this afternoon (Saturday, 01/16/010) and the winner of the “Facebook Fan Favorite” Vote will be announced next Friday!

Only one vote per fan; that said, feel free to comment as much as you’d like, interact and discuss performances with other fans, and most relevant of all, BRING YOUR FRIENDS to the conversations!

Enjoy!

[NOT HERE ON WORDPRESS.COM, AS THEY WANT ME TO PAY FOR THE EMBED FUNCTIONALITY... SORRY!... GOOGLE'S GIVING IT AWAY!]

Check out the Facebook Videos on The Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/video/?oid=269534585125

The search is back on for the next star. Step into the spotlight and show us what you’ve got. Enjoy weekly performances as the area’s top aspiring singers, dancers, and performers compete for cash and prizes. Don’t miss what everyone is talking about….all ages welcome!

Enter for your chance to win $1,000 in cash and prizes!

Application to be found at:

http://www.downtownatthegardens.com/events-talent-form.asp

*** Follow us on Twitter: @DowntownGardens and get to hear the conversation via #Hashtags: #DowntownGardens and #DowntownTalent ***

*** Also: Watch LIVE on @UStream at:

#DowntownGarden’s TALENT Season Two!!!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/testing-webcam1

Downtown’s Got Talent Season Two – LIVE BROADCAST!

RT and share via TweetVite: http://Twvt.US/DowntownTalent

#Cinch… Que Vacilon! This is SOOO MUCH FUN! (on #Broadcasting #Techniques)

24 Nov

Well, here’s what I did today in terms of EXPANDING my ‘arsenal’ (Forget that silly Kingdoms of Camelot, THIS stuff requires more REAL research than what those fake Alchemists do whilst ‘working’ in that Fake hall!) in terms of leveraging what’s out there, for me and my customers.


This neat little Web Platform, essentially allows you to record and later (well, not so late if you have an iPhone, as they already have an app for it… me? DON’T ask!) publish via shortened URL the recording that was made… knowing the little that I know about Telco, I can only THANK those who came up with this very FORWARD looking application of a traditional Voice Mail system, and I can only think of the day when BTR ties it in, as candidly speaking, this interface has much more HORSEPOWER than the one they have for the basic (read: free/unpaid) one at BTR.

Anyway, the feeling of being able to LEVERAGE otherwise wasted time on the car by ‘creating’ these clips, well, it’s just EXHILARATING to some of us (yeah, I’m writing some CAPS as I’m REALLY, REALLY excited about this!)… and why? well, at least for some of us, a nice oldie and a Venti can get our neurons to jump from synapse to synapse, and with Cinch, there’s no LOSS of the ‘concepts’ or ideas that may pour forth at otherwise UNUSABLE times; in other words, we can not only CAPTURE some great thoughts and ‘audio blog’ with them, but also, maybe have a customer’s script ready to be loaded WHILE we drive to that same customer’s meeting? or otherwise leverage tools that may sit unused for a while in the creation of the segments that would drive our BTR show (which I’m sure is the sole reason why BTR is there along with this interface, speculatively speaking?)

Anyway, here are the tweets, at least for me it was a BLAST, and I hope that y’all find them to be worth your while!…

Saludos!

#OriginalTweet

Why I like #Cinch so much? Some of us DO some #Heavy DUTY #Thinking in our cars… Now there’s a way to #Publish it too http://bit.ly/4R9Uno

#OriginalTweet

It would not be a #Maiden #Voyage if there were NO Issues http://bit.ly/8c93lW AND http://bit.ly/86JkpZ #Cinch has me #Clinched! #95CNCH!

#OriginalTweet

#95CNCH, born today @ #Cinch A #Segment ‘guessing’ what drove this #Product‘s #Inception http://bit.ly/8c93lW “Have #Phone, Will #Broadcast”

#OriginalTweet

Mi nueva estacion en #Cinch para los #Hispanos! #95CNCH http://bit.ly/4EQBQs un trozo de #Spanglish/#Venezuelean para que se rian un rato!

#OriginalTweet

Okidoki! Anyone out there using #Cinch? #95CNCH was born today http://bit.ly/4KCgIy una nueva ‘estacion’ de radio nacio hoy! (TEST TRACKS 1)

#OriginalTweet

"Can you HEAR me now?... GOOOD"

More?

#SoCruise #SoFresh #Papparazzo #Stash @PhotoShelter… yay!

19 Nov

Well, since WordPress.Com won’t let me do the <embed> nor <object> tags from PhotoShelter, it all ended up in the BlogSpot blog… so here, as it’ll take it via RSS into Facebook, I have then listed the URL’s for each of the albums, so that you can either use the embeddable PhotoShelter Object in your OWN blog… or download them one by one…. ready?

Embarking in Miami

Welcoming Party and Registration

First Evening at Sea, ending up at MiniGolf on deck 11…

First Day at Sea, First Round of Sessions…

Beach Party at Carlos and Charlie’s in Cozumel…

Embarking at Dusk/Evening, great shots of the Boat… I mean, SHIP!

Then, shots from the last Dinner together, aboard the Carnival Destiny…

And finally (for now!)… the BATHROBE PARTEE! Yay!

What? did I miss some pics? WHICH ONES? O Dio Mio!…

Finally… a NOTE:

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#ClipboardNuggets – Developing My Pitch for #SM (Social Media)

30 Oct

Today, whilst answering an FB-Mail about what I precisely do nowadays**…  an acquaintance stated:

“…do you do web pages and the like?

Beyond the Basics of Today...

My husband and I are starting a new biz… have a website under construction… its okay for now but [we] may decide to do something a little more fancy down the road, right now our cash is tied up in getting the store open…

…just curious for future reference...”

So then I replied:

“Sure, more than actually helping build sites (I can do some basic Flash for banners and the like) what I tell my customers nowadays is that the current Conventional Wisdom for driving traffic to one’s site, is to look at the Core Business Processes and the Goals of the organization, towards then creating a mix of Social Media ‘Personas’ that allow it to not only rise to the SEO rankings (Search Engine Optimization, I’m sure that has come up in the budget talks) but also to keep YOUR company in the eyes of the actual CUSTOMERS, which for SMB’s (Small-Medium Business) worldwide is now becoming more of a matter of keeping them not only informed, with the latest and greatest promotions, product news, events and the like, but also with the value of being yet another ‘content provider’ in THEIR social media home pages, one that usually brings a smile or two to their days (I’m sure you as the renowned Radio Personality that you are, can vouch for its value, correct?) and even, become the ‘hub’ for many of their ‘communal’ activities.

In other words, sites alone are no longer cutting the mustard, they need to be “garnished”, so to speak, with yummy sides of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Diggit, Reddit, Tweetmeme, Cinch, Meetup.Com, etc, etc…

Then you’ll see the value and the ROI (return on investment) of what you have already spent on the site, and much like many other local businesses that have successfully leveraged these sites, eventually find yourself focusing on them social media gateways as the actual places where the prospects are to be found.

How do we build most everything else? and why not Systems, too?

How do we build most everything else? and why not Systems, too?

I am looking forward then to discussing with you both any eventual plans to deploy a well-thought-out social media strategy for your business.

Sincerely,

Francisco

P.S: Check out this video on my blog, explains a lot about what I said above, visually… enjoy!”

http://fjpalacio.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/socialnomics-prsa-miami-events-takeaways/

Still with me? Bottom line? Much like it was stated in yesterday’s K-Buzz Presentation, pretty soon we’ll find that SMB’s that are actually doing a LOT (specially once serious e-commerce/merchant apps are present on the FB platform) here in Facebook, may end up replacing their investments,  with ‘free’ time on the Homestream…

… which is why I’ve seriously approached my peers in the Web Design biz, and mentioned that they need to UPGRADE their Toolkits/Skillsets with these “garnish” - as to avoid being sucked into a vortex of obsolescence.

  • Think you’re ready for it now? need a hand, perhaps, making sense of it all?

** And why I do ask? now I realize that the INITIAL thread may shed additional light on WHY hiring someone to “draw the blueprints” of your BUSINESS SM strategy, may be a good INVESTMENT after all… ready?

Found YOUR starting point?

Found YOUR starting point?

(Acquaintance contacted me…)

“Hey Francisco…how’s it going???
A long time ago you advised me to do a fan page for us and told me how to do it, but I don’t remember….

is there a way to transfer a friend page to a fan page??? I am interested in doing so for my personal profile… and so is another friend for his own page…

… help if you can oh technical guru! :) “
So I promptly answered:
“Dear Friend

 

Sadly, that’s one of the BIGGEST hurdles posed by Facebook, and no, the reason why I told y’all from the get go, it’s because so far, at least in the little I know ’bout them, you have to start from SCRATCH.I’ve seen folks that then let their ‘friends’ know that they need to go over there, and in turn, they “connect” the Fan Page to the Personal Profile, thereby making all updates and content generation START there, and still be published on the Personal Profile.

 

Sole Caveat about this workaround? those who have then become fans will get the updates DUPLICATED (once for the Friend, and once for the Fan Page)

All of the above actually being the reason why I suggested it from the get-go, have seen many businessess NOT heed that warning, get to the 5k limit on the Personal Profile, and/or find some other hindrance, and end up having to manage (manually) both profiles, segregating friends, from fans, etc.

Hooked up on EDUCATION!

Hooked up on EDUCATION!

Serendipitiously there was a Webinar yesterday about it, and this topic came up, and no, there is no solution up to this minute…. does Facebook know? most likely… will they ever change it? dunno, maybe, everything’s kinda looking the same up to this moment (meaning, profiles, pages and groups are all following the same “Use Cases” and working very much alike)

Hope this helps… and good luck!

Francisco

P.S: BTW, were you aware that above is now my biz? I’m sure you have one or two peeps in your network that may be able to benefit from your letting them know that now I do this for a living, feel free to forward them my information, I’m covering the whole of Southern Florida (or anywhere anyone wants me to work remotely, too!)

Saludos!”

——END OF TRANSCRIPT——-
So? Get it now? it PAYS to PLAN ahead, here as well as ELSEWHERE!

[CHUCKLES HEARTILY!]

YouTube Channel – From John Chow, visiting IZEA…

10 Oct

Well, while I finally get my first videos together, I have decided to just keep the Channel interesting by gathering materials from the many people I’ve met (or heard of!) in the past few weeks…

… So whilst Googling IZEA within YouTube, let’s hear what John Chow has to say about ‘em (and also, ‘cuz I closed the week with a similar visit to the place!…hehe!)

… in my case, thanks to Twitter, I was able to get my time added to @TedMurphy‘s schedule before hand!…

Enjoy!

Knock, Knock!

Knock, Knock!

300 Million Peeps – On Zuckerberg’s Success… “Seen on a Wall Near You” Series…

18 Sep

Well, as you may have figured out by now, I draw into my blog the input of many of the people I interact with in my Social Media endeavors; I mean, if you come to think of it, the current structured threads that sometimes stem from a single status comment, are now documented as being a brand-new “interaction mode” for the people who participate – and for sure, even those who just spend their time reading them, must have a laugh or two at the “heated” debates that sometimes ensue, the silliness and overall atmosphere of “gathering” that they emanate.

... reasons to smile?

... reasons to smile?

That is why I’ve already posted a couple of them, in what I call “Seen on a Wall Near You” as what a better way to hash out a topic, than to have an CMAC (Computer Mediated Asynchronous Communication) forum do it for you?

Therefore, apropos recent news about Facebook’s reaching certain milestones ahead of schedule, a fellow FB’er posted…

(Anne) heard a report today that Facebook has almost as many registered users as the entire U.S. population and that they have just now turned a profit! Congrats Mark Zuckerberg! :)

Francisco Jose Palacio

Yup… get ready for less gridlock (hopefully!) as they have the moolah to improve the infrastructure… maybe a billion peeps, next milestone?

Francisco Jose Palacio

… and did you every come across an article that mentioned the real “power” behind it? SF folks such as Thiel?

Francisco Jose Palacio

Here… safely stashed among my 911 links…

http://sn.im/rxv8n

“Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like PayPal before it, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative libertarianism. On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don’t mind being bombarded by adverts for the world’s biggest brands. As with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of the past…” (The Guardian, 2008)

(Anne)

Oh my I’ll have to take a look at that… what’s SF?

Francisco Jose Palacio

San Francisco; Silicon Valley types…

Interesting read, right?

(Anne)

Ohh… yeh, SV is the place to be for Angels and VCs, especially for Tech and Online Companies.

Francisco Jose Palacio

So we can then agree that Mark is surrounded by Arch-angels? Thiel, Gates – and who knows who else is lining up for that IPO, which you and me are feeding in its valuation as we spend more and more time in this place!

[DONS GLADIATOR AVATAR]

Dying in the Sands...

Dying in the Sands...

Pax Technologica!
Commentaribus te Salutant!

(Anne)

Yeah I wish I could be apart of that IPO, but I’m sure the value will be too rich for my pockets. LOL!

Francisco Jose Palacio

Same here; all I hope for it is to happen as that would also be a “signal” that the economy is finally coming out of the Boonies… I mean, I doubt it won’t happen at a time when they won’t be able to get the most out of it (like right now!)…

… and also, as techies that we are, I drool at the potential of applications similar as this one making their way as SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) deployments for the next-gen of GroupWare.

I mean, these 300 million peeps? all happily beta-testing this one, would you not agree?

(Bob)

Check the books. I think they’re counting the money exchanged in Mafia Wars as part of their profit… :)

(Anne)

LOL!

Francisco Jose Palacio

Fuhgedabboutit!

Fuhgedabboutit!

[DONS GOODFELLA AVATAR]

… leave the gun… but don’t forget the cannoli!

(;OP)

What’s Twitter all about?… “Seen on a Wall Near You” Series

16 Sep
Whats Twitter all about?...

What's Twitter all about?...

A dear friend just wondered what Twittering was all about… me being the helpful evangelist that I am, I gave him a long answer – well, a few long answers, 1,000 character long, as that’s the threshold in Facebook’s Wall’s Comments – and here’s what came out of… so why not share with the Blogosphere, I said?

IMHO?

  • Go to Twitter if you’d like the WHOLE world to know about something; then hit the public_timeline, and find others who may be into the areas you’d like to ‘target’… Follow them, and hope they follow you (then you’ll know where the tweets end up)…
  • Synergy starts the moment you start doing RT’s (Retweets) of GOOD content that they post… then they may do the same for you, out of current Netiquette…
  • Finally, you may want to stick around for #ff (FollowFridays) and send a few tweets through the day with some ‘@Mentions’ (their ID’s, in Status-speak) and those may get caught by those looking for parallel information.
  • And lest I forget, take a look at the people you’d find more likely to lead you to people you’d like to get in touch with, and look at their “following” list (the people THEY follow) and start following away!
  • You’ll be amazed at the info, and the people whom are buzzin’ around in there… as they say “birds of a feather, flock together!”

Hope this helps!

(… Then I realized I had missed a couple of items…)

  • .. and yeah, there people won’t mind if you send these tweets (with some changes, of course) through the day… actually I’ve found that’s how I get more followers, by posting or RT’ing through the day, as much like TV, there are dayparts there as well, and times when people are looking.

    The Twitter Stream - a Powerful component of Social Media

    The Twitter Stream - a Powerful component of Social Media

Check it out!… and hold on to your seat!

(… and yeah, like I said, I’m into long answers… ready for more?)

  • Also: you may want to post these into a blog (for free at WordPress (BEST) dot com or BlogSpot (HAS ADS, GOOGLE ADS) dot com.
  • Then keep the link to the blog in your Twitter Profile, that’s one of the things most of us do check before “following” a “follower”…

…. So reader, what links or sources have you found to better encompass the whole purpose of the Twitter Stream? Care to share?


… Seen on a Wall near you… On Sprint’s Coverage and at&t’s travails

11 Sep

Well, let’s see if I can bring some of my conversations with peers and colleagues out of the FB Wall, and share them here in the blog, as after all, they do apply to the topics at hand, IMHO – and better yet, when I pick my latest issue of Fortune and find out an excellent apropos article!

[CHUCKLES]

Today, I decided to pluck my conversation with Sean Dillon, from Cyentist Social Media Agency, about first-hand experiences with WWAN providers…

… so here we go!

Sean Dillon Need mobile broadband connection aircard today. Verizon, AT&T or Sprint? Anyone have first-hand reviews??? All comments welcome.

Yesterday at 1:07pm via Twitter

William Chan

Verizon. I always connect. But! But! Depending on where you connect the tower maybe congested. For instance, the Acela down to DC…everyone is on it.

Yesterday at 1:18pm

Francisco Jose Palacio

Echo WC’s, have had Verizon since 2006, no dead zones that I can tell you about…

Actually, I can tell you about a CEMETERY of a ‘dead zone’ that I had to endure in Sprint’s “home turf” of Missouri… Spent a weekend about 70 miles away from KC, visiting my old high school… BB was on Sprint, WWAN on Verizon… While on conference call driving over there, I dropped out from the voice line… an outage, of course, ensued…

Good news? was able to text and chat my way out of the outage using my WWAN Verizon card, while stopped at a Pizza Hut where I decided to have lunch – and tackle the outage at the same time….

Sprint? MIA during the whole weekend, no signal at this town, which for the 5,000 folk that still seemed to be living there, sounded like an insult, again, for a company whose HQ I drove by on the way there…

Only when I got back to KC, was I able to use the BB again… ended up resuming voice comms from the hotel room that night, as again, there was ZERO bars!

Yesterday at 1:32pm ·

Sean Dillon

Hmmm…I too have had good luck with the Verizon card and their coverage map, if you’ve seen it, is quite impressive. They’re price fixing across the board offering the same thing at the same price, so I just had to ask to be sure.

Yesterday at 2:09pm

Sean Dillon

Oh, thanks for the very detailed responses :)

Yesterday at 2:09pm

Thing is, is incidents like these which in my mind help shape the destinies of these carriers, specially when I’ve just read these pieces on the latest Fortune, as well as their site’s “Brainstorm Tech” blog, about at&t’s travails with the heavy loads imposed on them by some bandwidth hogs using the iPhone – and how it has even stalled the release of services as prevalent elsewhere, such as MMS.

To quote:

“…carriers are likely to get pickier about the applications they’ll allow on their networks. When Apple (AAPL) unveiled the latest iPhone software in June, developers collectively groaned after the company revealed that AT&T wouldn’t immediately support two of the most exciting (and bandwidth-hungry) new features: MMS, which uses the text-messaging system to send media such as photos and video, and tethering, which allows a phone to share its Internet connection with a nearby computer. (AT&T says MMS will arrive at summer’s end, when the network is deemed ready.) (Fort, Jonn, Fortune, 2009)

Definitely food for thought, as we all run to embrace these handy devices as our main means of communication, or as Sean posited early, think about moving into WWAN devices as our main/alternate connection to the Packet Cloud.

Welcome to The Buffet!

Welcome to The Buffet!

From Fast Company, an “Overture to a Complete Educational Remix”

11 Sep

Based on a recent article disseminated via Facebook’s Home Stream, Fast Company magazine put out an article on the current movement aimed at integrating the free content some institutions have already posted on the web, and how such content could someday be integrated into a degree, in ways hitherto unexplored in higher education.

“A free, peer-to-peer Wiki university? These all exist today, the overture to a complete educational remix” http://bit.ly/l63Td @FastCompany

8:25 AM Sep 4th from web

The article, written by Anya Kamenetz, actually contains the word “Web-Savvy Edupunks” in its title; and with the key word being transforming, became a must-read for the author, in spite of it being a rather lengthy four pages online; was it worth it? You betcha, as I for one became a believer upon enrolling at University of Phoenix, currently the largest private university in the U.S., and a virtual unknown less than a decade ago, and whose business blueprint is now being copied by most every other outfit out there that plans to stay in business in the near future.

After a 1996 comparison with higher university being much like a string quartet, Kamenetz reminds us of the speed of change, by stating: “Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before.” (Kamenetz, Fast Company, 2009)

Personally, I think the issue of cost is what will make these efforts viable, as with most every other area of our lives that the internet has touched, said cost benefits find their biggest impact in those places where issues of dire poverty and basic access to life’s conveniences are perhaps even seen as a luxury, as was my case when I dropped out of college here in the U.S., only to find that even though it was public and free, higher education in my country was actually more ‘expensive’, in many ways, than the humble community college I had to leave behind – and then, remain a dropout for over a decade, as I had to forfeit getting a degree for the dangers of bankruptcy and foreclosure that loomed over the family’s finances.

So it is easy to imagine, that outside the geographic borders of the U.S.A, and much like services such as Pay-Pal have blurred the lines of banking and finance at the microeconomic level, the thirst for these materials, now freely available to anyone who thinks of himself as an autodidact, and perhaps ready to be shaped in the next iteration of old fashioned “correspondence school”, can be.

To close this blog post, here is a quote that summarizes the thrust of the effort:

Sharpen away!

Sharpen away!

‘”The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros,” says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, “is the biggest virgin forest out there.” Ferreira is among a loose-knit band of education 2.0 architects sharpening their saws for that forest.’ (ibid)

So therefore, seeing that an institution of the stature of MIT is the one leading the charge, that very soon us foreign students may be able to telecommute to Cambridge, and for a fraction of the effort, obtain a bonafide U.S. higher education certification.

Can only picture the impact in the economies of emerging nations, as again, a large percentage of international students come precisely from those places where the watering holes of knowledge can sometimes be as parched – as a summery stretch of the Kalahari.

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