Here it is… As any of you watching yesterdays keynote from Facebook’s F8 conference CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Universal Like Button – 1 Billion sites served daily! Now that’s a bold statement… but we thought we’d help out. Actually I thought WP plugin guys would have been all over this like a fat chick on a twinkie, they weren’t! So I complained a few times on Twitter… still nothing So as with anything else in life – if you want it done right, you’re gonna have to do it yourself!

That being said… I contacted two of my favorite guys in Lancaster, Pa. (the owners of Mind Development & Design Zim & Chad) 3 hours later, as you can see at the top of this post, the Universal Like Button is a wordpress plugin! It’s not been approved by WP yet but we’re running the latest version 2.9.2 (as of the date of this post) and it works like a champ. Just go download the Facebook Universal Like Button <— there upload it to your wp-content ==> plugins folder. Log into your admin panel, go to plugins ==>activate the plugin ===> go to ‘Settings’ (put in your settings, for example I have mine set to top left & show avatars) adjust yours as you wish…. then simply start using it!

I’d also like to say – if you are not currently one of my buddies on Facebook then you probably won’t see the avatars at the top of this post. So you can go and add me http://facebook.com/SEO-101 and please hit the Like button on this post so that we can continue to show / help any of the newb’s that want to use this on their wordpress site!

I love deadlines… especially the sound they make as they go swoooshing by! If you’ve been following the crazy antics of civic leaders across America, vying for a little Google love, the race is over. And I think it’s fair to say Bellingham, Wa. Cinched it with this amazing video!

Now I’m not one to jump into these types of debates often… but I do believe that a bit of humor never hurt anyone. That being said I’m sure everyone has heard about the Tiger Woods debacle. While unfortunate that the entire world now knows his dirty little secret… What would you have your star earner do? Pepsi, Gillette, and Buick have all laid off the Woods… So approaching this debacle as a marketer I often think of what my mentor would say – “If it’s really a problem, Feature it! Put your spin on it and people will buy it for the flaw.” While I don’t work / consult for the Woods marketing team… here’s some ideas to get you started (thanks to a mass email my Dad sent me)

Look condom companies… this is wrapped and delivered! Now all you have to do is get a meeting w/ Tiger
You might want to ask the guys over at Pfizer to join you at your meeting…

It’s not often that someone w/ Tigers star power becomes available to those of you that market on the ‘fringe’ of ‘PC’ All I’m saying… make the offer before he starts getting movie deals.

I mean nothing is going to pay like the glory days of 8 fortune 500 companies but for those of you willing to stretch your brand for Tiger – well don’t stretch too far .02

We all know the old saying – Pimp’in ain’t easy – While this may be true, thanks for making it look so good!

Hello again tweeps, this time my post has zilch to do w/ SEO… I am happy to say though, social media rawks! And I’d like to use a bit of Social Media to help my friend Blow Out her charity event! One of my close friends growing up, Rita Ralph, is now without a sister. Since I have a ton of twitter buds I figured I’d extend the digital olive branch and let any of my tweeps help out. I know most, if any of you, don’t actually know her… good news is you didn’t need to know her to know that she was a great woman who unfortunately / unexpectedly left 2 children behind when she was murdered. You hear about this kind of stuff all the time in the news, but it’s not often that it hits this close to home. All I ask is that  you read the below note from Amy Pickard (a great friend, and her hubby schools me in golf </sidenote>) Amy is organizing the entire effort and has put together a great event.

What we need now is donations of any kind (I don’t care if it’s a $5 item or a $5k item – ANYTHING HELPS!) – Contact Amy via her email addy, or if you want, you can get a hold of me too… She needs everything for a 2/13/10 meeting to get everything set up for the 2/19/10 benefit for Sharrin’s kids. Anything will work folks… lets see what the ‘geek’ community can get together to help out some kids that lost their Mother.

Amy Pickard
P.O. Box 80
Ferndale, WA 98248
amalinalittlebit@comcast.net

February 2, 2010

To: EVERYONE
Re: Sharon Ralph-Miller

A few years ago I wrote a long drawn out post (w/ an ex-employer I’ll not mention nor link to) about becoming a Twitter Rockstar…. After reading this, this morning…

Brent D. Payne A hilarious and often accurate article regarding follower counts and one’s “e-penis” size. http://bit.ly/7PGFdt via @RyanJones

I decided to take a look at what I was once sooooo proud of and now looks like it needs a snip. I know, I know… just a few short years ago I was telling everyone to accept any and all new followers. To try and engage them, even did a “Twitter Welcome Video” (which has had over 6,518 views as of this post and even ranks alright for the term) This was all fine and well in the infancy stage of Twitter. Granted I’ve been on here longer than the average bear… 13 March 2007 (I even beat the ‘When did you join twitter‘ guy by a week!) But alas… rounding that corner into my 3rd yr I’m struck w/ this conundrum…

I’m NOT ASHTON KUTCHER! I have to admit I was a little, okay, a LOT pissed off when the ‘celeb’s’ started getting 100k followers etc… it’s hard for the everyday average SEO guy to get up there w/ the likes of a Kelso (I still have better hair) Anyways… apparently everything I wrote about back in Oct’ 08 is now dead and gone… you can’t continue to approach Twitter in the same fashion. I’ve been struggling w/ this for a while now and I’m going to go ahead and rip the bandage off quickly!