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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

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10 years ago seems so 10 years ago in the world of search, social and mobile. If you think about what made MySpace popular, it wasn’t as much about the conversations as it was about creating your own content, your own page-it struck a nerve. In the world of mobile, the evolution has been nothing short of dramatic.

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Does Good Content Matter Anymore?

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We’re content starved. The emergence of tablets and mobile devices has only enhanced our desire to consume digital content. When content producers cannot meet the demands of a ravenous public, things can get ugly and the public walks-digitally speaking. Good content is getting lost in the firehose of bad content.

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Search Results and Quality Content is an Oxymoron

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Thus this post could have easily been titled, “Content for content’s sake&# or “Crappy content for search engines&# , or “The difference between worthless content and worthy content&#. Good content takes time. Like it or not we are a search driven society.

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10 Things I Thought About in 2016 that Will Still Matter in 2017

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Paid social, ugh… Snackable Content-That’s all we want! iot) + (streaming) x (mobile) figure out delivery. There’s content, and then there’s our content. Where does social fit in a brands mobile strategy? Digital transformation, yea, yea, yea… Disruption in mobile.

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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

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1) Look for more content to be produced by “others”. This means look for the rise of the professional content creators masking as citizen journalists. We used to marvel at UGC, but what is it when large organization start to pass their content off as UGC? Know the difference between “real&# UGC and professional content.

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How do you Measure Success?

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Two questions that I always ask of every friend or client who either wants to get themselves or their company in to the digital game, whether it’s social media, mobile marketing, web design, search engine optimization or otherwise: What do you want to do and why do you want to do it? Little wins are just as important as the big ones!

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

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People used mobile phones to talk. The iPhone became the first mobile phone to be used more for data than for voice. I’ll add a couple of thoughts directed squarely at the corporate side of this discussion that relate to content, trust and brands. Today anyone can produce content and distribute to a potentially sizeable market.

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