Today, significant parts of the stories we see on social networks, blogs and tweets, have originated from the traditional media. While this does not mean that the bloggers don’t provide original news content and commentary, the question is: If we need to pay more for news content that we used to get for free, then will it negatively impact the quantity or quality of social media discussions around those news items?

In some ten years from now, social media could significantly change for the better. You wouldn’t need to strain your fingers to type things into structure or type the uniform resource locators in the browsers, or bear with annoying communications about useless products. In the future, social media will be easy and in all places.

Will social media survive in the long run? Not sure. But today and for the near future, you can’t do without it. You have to jump in even if you do not fully understand it, or you will go the way of print media.

This is the latest buzz. The board is set, and the game has begun. No sooner did Google launched the Buzz, the other online players started rearranging to face this challenge. Mind you, this is only the beginning. This New Year 2010 started with a bang. Google himself launching and marketing Nexus One was the first surprise. Then rolled out the. i-Pad, ever since when Steve Jobs, couldn’t wipe out that famous smile. Then came the Buzz, which is set to change a lot of online equations. This new twist is predictable; we were only wondering, when, what and where this would come from.

The mobile search engines are also very new, evolving and imperfect. For these very reasons mobile SEO and SEM are also confused, and well, very immature. But for us, this is yet another challenge. We, as SEO enthusiasts still want traffic, and we still want users to find us in search results; and so we just won’t give up, we are born to fight.

Giving is the name…Everybody is looking out for real life solutions to real life issues…

Stereotype solutions are only for board rooms….Real solutions and strategies are crafted inside the market…

And finally – Keep inventing new ways of compelling conversation – “There are no fixed rules”

Its the free tips not the freebies

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Its the ‘Man versus Machine’ – and a novice will tell you that the Human factor plays a decisive role in the Brand promotion.

A personalized attention is always a clincher in most cases – on the other hand, a machine response is a big deterrent to collaboration.

Human presence rather than a machine response system

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Conversation & Contribution….The 2 Pillars of Internet advertising…which is ignored most often than not. Like SEO, C & C is not only a long-term strategy but the ROI is exponential in most cases – if done in right and consistent manner..

[A] Conversation & not promotion is vital

Information & promotional overload on the net

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