As the world turns

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Happy 2010 and welcome to a new chapter of Susan 2.0.

We're learning SEO. It's time. It may not be the missing link, but there doesn't seem to be much forward movement without it.

Of course, in SEO terms, missing links take on a whole new meaning.

So we (Who is we? I'm an I) are reading "Search Engine Optimization: An Hour A Day". The title had appeared in more than one end-of-the-year Top 10 SEO book lists, so I queried Nathan Eide from SMBMSP, who agreed that this was the book for me.

So far so good. Two hours down and according to authors Jennifer Grappone and Gravida Couzin, millions more to go. But an hour a day is manageable. And practical. I'm practicing now, putting lots of links in this blogpost. Here's hoping the robot search engines don't miss these links.

Social social media

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Social media is so social.

I just came home from Minneapolis' own Social Media Breakfast(SMB), where new media folks kibitz and learn in the land of 10,000 links.* It was fun. Don't believe the hype about social media folks ("Geeks" "Introverts" "Awkward"). These people are sociable in the best sense of the word; listening, sharing, helping. I came home from the SMB with new contacts, new information, new leads, and a head full of new ideas. If two hours at a social media breakfast make me feel that good, imagine how great I'll feel March 7 after the day-long social media unsummit.

*All kind of links. Bacon is always on the menu.