Aaron Weiche

Gary Vaynerchuk put out a great video looking at social media interaction from brands today and how it may be an expected interaction in the future.

The video has great examples of how things like free shipping, post holiday sales and social media interaction from athletes and big brands have produced a "Wow!" in the beginning, but grow over time to be expected by the consumer.

Some great food for thought. Is your brand ready for the expectation of personal interaction?

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Five Technology is currently being featured through December 30th on Around Town TV, a Twin Cities cable program that airs on cable Channel 6.  Around Town TV has been a client for a number of years and is currently undergoing a redesign as well.  Here is the Five segment:

You can also catch the full episode (No. 16 for 2009) on their website.  Around Town has been featuring great local businesses for many years and you can catch host Carla Beaurline and the current episode multiple times weekly.

Our office had a lot of fun with the lights, camera  and action.  Thanks Carla and crew.

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I've only been on posterous for a few weeks, but I'm already a big fan.  The free service is all about making it easy to post rich media like photos and video to the web.  In a nut shell it's blogging simplified with all kinds of awesome extras. As with my site, you can easily connect it to your own domain.

You can post articles, photos, video and more by just sending an email, something any web novice can handle.

Here is the interview video below (article here) with the posterous crew of founders:

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The explosion of photo sharing and tagging on Facebook is a big part of their success and user growth.  Viewing photos on Facebook has increased to over 70 million photos being viewed per day.  USA Today Tech writer Jefferson Graham interviews Facebook engineer Scott Marlette on the topic.

• View the article & video interview

(Sorry, the video won't embed)

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I realize the video below, from Matt Cutts of Google, could put a large number of SEO pretenders out of business (bummer).  It's a good thing this vidoe clip doesn't run on on the nightly news to burst the keyword myth bubble.  You might want to pass this on to your "webmaster".

For years, Google has discounted the data/keywords in the meta keywords tag due to spamming/stuffing/misuse of it.  The small business owner is the last to know of this though.

The takeway here is to focus on quality web content and being a resource to others with your website.  While we do complete this meta tag on the pages and websites we build, it isn't the silver bullet to good search engine rankings.  Keep in mind other engines may use this tag to some degree.

Now you know. For sure. :)

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