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I was notified this morning that I was one of 13 candidates nominated for the Social Media Ninja Contest awards. I am listed as BartTheBear for those of you who have not yet voted. Yes, this is a humble request for your vote please. This came as a complete surprise, and I want to first thank everyone for the opportunity to serve, second talk about the process by which I think I got the nomination. Obviously, someone thought that my contributions were worth the merit of being on this distinguished list of experts. I think there is much more to this. Let's review the basics of getting the successful results that I have gotten using the social networking sites, in this case Stumbleupon: 1. Fresh content 2. Tagging 3. Friends These principles work in all of the social networking sites that I am currently using on a regular basis and the ones I am experimenting with. My latest is Facebook. Fresh content is the fuel of social media. Without it there is no content, nothing to read, and no real interest in either the social media site or the contributor. Tagging is the delivery system of social media. Tagging determines what Stumbler's will see when they hit the Stumble button. The Stumbler's determine which tags are their favorites, so if you are not using appropriate tags in your posts, you are not likely to get viral traffic. Research your tags carefully and you will increase the likelyhood of viral traffic. Friends are the spark of social media. Social sites have a mechanism for you to send, or force Stumble in the case of Stumbleupon, your posts to all of your friends along with a short message. In Stumbleupon this is done one friend at a time. I send to my Stumbleupon friends in about 30 minutes. Stumbleupon has a 200 limit to the number of friends you can reciprocate with. Your friends read, vote on, and review your posts. In turn, their friends read the same post on their Stumbleupon. Some of them continue the voting and reviewing causing the post to go viral. My thinking is that friends, by far, are the catalyst of exposure and reputation on the internet today. Social Media is great for exposure and reputation. A lot of people get to know who you are and what you are about real fast! These principles can be applied to almost any social media site. My latest activities have been with Mixx.com. I used Mixx to confirm the three principles. I sense that the traffic from Mixx is growing. It is also a great place for valuable back-links. Some social media sites are not and use the "nofollow" link attribute. Mixx does not. So what is the point of this post? Apparently, I know something about social media. Somebody noticed and decided that I merit being included in a high profile list of other social media hopefuls. Here is the "in action" part. I have sent the link for the Social Media Ninja Contest to the 200 of my friends in Stumbleupon, 357 friends in Mixx, and also posted it to one of my favorite forums for support. At 3:17 pm Eastern, the post has 30 votes, 14 reviews, and has probably already gone viral in Stumbleupon. This viral activity will continue with every vote and review. What is the purpose of having friends if you can't ask them for their help every once in awhile? Don't forget to vote for BartTheBear!
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Well, "Bart the Bear" I totally voted for you and I did not go through Mixx or SU. I voted simply on the fact that you are truly a social media ninja!
Cheers
4:45 PM
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