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The Magpies are still flying high after their win. Technically they chortle but for the purpose of my blog picture they Tweet.  ‘Carn the Tweety Pie’s. It has a ring to it don’t you think?

It was clear that Samseed, my lecturer of the course yesterday, was a lot more focused on Search Engine Optimistaion than on Social Media. Shame. I really need to know how to optimize readership of my blog and all about the ‘tagging’ business. I know there is an author out there somewhere who needs help plugging their book.

Social media is word of mouth. It is chatty conversations, statements and shared personal information such as photographs and social news. Facebook is about building a community and having a platform to voice your opinion or rekindle friendships; hence the ‘invite a friend’ line. It as much about receiving information as it is about inadvertently reading or snooping for it. Just like I found a guy who I went to primary school with through my brother’s website.

Twitter is like a message with a Bcc: to the world. You can’t retract it once you Tweet and there is a word limit on your message. It is aimed to be the method of communication for those on the go because of its link to your mobile phone.

From a business perspective the best social network to get on board in LinkedIn. I am linked in but have done nothing with it yet. I’ll let you know how it goes.

To sum it all up, SEO marketing is about bringing customers to your site and social media marketing is about going where your prospective community is.

Here are some more interesting stats:

• The average time spent weekly on social networks is 6 hours, 52 minutes and 8 seconds

• 69 per cent of Australian social media users read blogs of some description

• 29 per cent of time spent on line is for Facebook

Some helpful and sites to look up:

www.geektools.com – domain availability

www.netfleet.com.au – domain availability

www.auda.org.au – regulates domains

www.google.com/addurl – indexing your website for free

www.google.com/guidelines – the do’s and do nots when using Google

www.dmoz.org – most popular directory

www.copyscape.com – to see if someone is copying the content of your website

I promise no more tech talk this week!