As if Social Media isn't new and exciting enough, there's lots of things going on recenetly and soon in the social media world.  Not only will it shed some light on your efforts, but also integrating more and more with your other marketing mediums especially, Search Engine Optimization.

Facebook just announced that their new insights/analytics is being released for Facebook pages tomorrow, October 6th, 2011.  For our clients, we'll be reviewing your insights more this month and providing you some more detailed information about our successes with our new Social Media Specialist, David Hutnik.

If you haven't seen anything about the new Facebook insights, here's a quick blog on it:  http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/10/03/people-talking-about-this-page-insights/

Impacts on SEO
Squidoo is launching magazines.  We use Squidoo for our SEO efforts to build content supporting your popular keyword phrases we're targeting on your site.  Just recently, they've become #73 in the top websites surpassign Hulu, NBC, or Digg. 

By launching online magazines, Squidoo will give us more power to publish our online content supporting your site and should have a great impact on supportive PR for SEO purposes.

Google+ button is a pretty huge success - A couple Key Announcements:

 "Since introducing the +1 button earlier this year, we now have more than 5 billion impressions on publisher sites a day." Nick Fox, VP of Product Management at Google

And on the enhanced search ads marketing website, the company claims: Our +1 button is being served 2.3 billion times a day all over the web.

That's incredible impressions of the new Google +1 button.  It is so important you jump in the game now and get this implemented on your site.  Give us a call if you still don't have it.  If we just put it in your header we can implement it in less than an hour.

Last but not least - Facebook is launching the new "timeline" profile, which I'm sure you've heard about.  Facebook is testing it out on some profiles so you may already see it,  but it should be rolling out to everyone soon.  It was pushed by a week by the court as there is a potential issue with the "timeline" name and a small Chicago based company.

Also, Facebook is launching their new “Gestures” which means that developers can turn any verb into a button.  Instead of "liking" something, we will start to see "booking", "watching", "listening", etc...  We'll be leveraging this for our customers as well.

Couple new Facebook Stats:
1)  Facebook has now hit 800 Million users adding about 50 million since July; and most are considered active.
2)  Facebook just saw a new record for the most visitors in one day: a ridiculous 500 million!!

If you haven't taken advantage of our Social Media services, now's the time.  Give us a call or contact your account manager for further details!
 

The thought of the Wild Wild West, no laws, no boundaries, no regulations.  It appears that the internet is a bit like the Wild Wild West.  Sure many of our laws and regulations of our for fathers and law makers give us some boundaries, but with many circumstances, the internet is still unregulated when it comes to privacy, hackers, and how businesses can operate.

The thought came to me after watching a TV special about the new movie "Catfish" a semi-documentary about a so-called "online romance" that suddenly turned into a suspense.  The main character, Nev fell in love with a girl named Megan.  After he had done a Google Search for one of the songs she had supposedly played for him he found out she was nothing but a fake.  This was not before he fell madly in love with her and wished to meet her.

Megan turned out to be a mother who lived in Michigan with her husband, two handicapped sons, and young daughter.  Diagnosed, schizophrenic, she had stolen people's pictures off of the internet and created characters for each of them and a whole story plot.  Though there were no laws broken, there were definitely broken hearts.

The internet opens your life to all kinds of privacy concerns from identity theft on social media sites, passwords, credit card numbers, and social security numbers.  It makes it even more important than ever that you host and create your website with people that you can tangibly touch, pick up the phone and call.  If someone like InterCoastal Net Designs manages your domain name, be wary of schemes from "businesses" that send you bills and emails for renewal.  Also, if ICND doesn't manage your domain name, make the call and let us help you never lose your domain name to anyone else. 

It's the Wild West out there.  Make sure your with a professional company you can trust.