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Permalink Reply by Bernard Martin on August 14, 2010 at 12:08am

Don,

I'm finally get the opportunity to delve into some enhancements to the site. Sorry for the delay in responding. I have moved several things around and would be interested in your input.

BTW, I registered for your "Reliability" site as well.

You have done a really amazing job on YouTube! Kudos! I'll be happy to click through some of your additional sites and let you know what I think... of course, they're just my opinions and the with the rapid changes in the entire SM platform at this point who knows who knows what's right or wrong as we're all just rolling the dice on which platform rises to the top... educated guesses I suppose :-)

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Permalink Reply by Donald Fitchett Open Networker on August 15, 2010 at 9:32am

Hi Bernard:

First of all thank you for the compliment on our youtube channel and especially thank you for registering on our Ning Reliability network.

I like you idea to add events, excellent. I did not think about that, but it is an easy way to provide more value to your viewers. (I'll have to put it on my long list of things to implement. :>)

I also like your ad under "other things" on the main page, taking the prospective client survey. As an approach and the way you implemented it is a work of art. :>)

Also while subscribing to your Youtube channel, I seen how you designed an area at the top to appear, recommending I also subscribe to your client's youtube channel. Excellent idea for an added service to your clients. (How did you do that?)

Yea, I hear you with that "... rapid changes in the entire SM platform". You not only have to constantly watch what they are doing, but also think ahead, what would you do if you where them. Like when there was all the hoopla about FaceBook privacy issues , I thought, they don't surpass Google's traffic without having some really bright and insightful people, they'll fix this privacy issue. Advised my associates to stay with them, don’t cancel their accounts. Now FB has implemented the strategy to be on every site of the internet, so sticking with them paid off. Like AOL, their executives originally and constantly position the property to be sold, so it is no surprise when it happens again. I don't waste much time with them. (theirs is not a good strategy for the end user anyway.:>)

I'll tell you, looking at your "contact us", you really have the various SM outlets covered. Would be better if you could use your own set of icons linking to each site directly instead of using DandyID, because Google does index ning networks, and they are getting all those Dandy links back value to their site, instead of your SM sites getting the link value.

You might have seen too, I tweeted @IndTraining ...
"Check out @bernardtmartin 's Manufacturing Supply Chain blog at http://ning.it/cnHcrv Great for Manufacturers just starting SM marketing."

I meet a lot of marketing 'experts', who try to sell their expertise at internet marketing, but can't get their own sites, strategies straight, basically just feeding off the newbie's out there with zero experience. I can clearly see you implement your own strategies and they are solid. You are the real deal Bernard and I would recommend you to my industrial associates who need a real internet marketing expert.

(Hey that last paragraph would make a good recommendation for me to put on your LinkedIn profile. :>) Is that ok?

Thank you for your consideration.
Don (Follow me on twitter @indtraining, add me to LinkedIn)

Business Industrial Network
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Permalink Reply by Bernard Martin on August 16, 2010 at 11:31am

Don,

Thank you very much for the kind compliments. I'll try to answer some of your questions as best I can:

YouTube
YouTube "recommend to subscribe" - not sure that I know what you're referring to. Can you send me an email with a screen shot?

Facebook - Google War
It's going to be interesting to see what happens when FB changes the PAGE format (again) in the next week and how Google tries to leverage products like "Knol". From my understanding Google is a bit frightened that their algorithm is not searching SM sites to the demographic level that the "LIKE" button now enables FB to drill down to. It's worth watching how the latest battle about Net Neutrality shakes out

DandyID
"Yea, I hear you with that "... rapid changes in the entire SM platform". You not only have to constantly watch what they are doing, but also think ahead, what would you do if you where them."
That is exact reason why I'm using DandyID. I'm not so much concerned about SEO issues at this point and have advised clients the same. I think it's more important, at this state in the evolution of SM, to have the various sites connected. Adding a site to create a button with DandyID is quick and easy, and until everything starts to take shape it just makes sense based up our strategic and tactical planning

Tweet
Thank you so very much for the Tweet about the Mfg Supply Channel Blog. I'm not overly enthralled with WordPress at this point. There are some additional functions available at Wordpress.org vs. Wordpress.com (that I use). I'm evaluating that, and have been for about a month....

LinkedIn
THANK YOU! I would love it if you posted that recommendation!

This Site
This weekend I finally got a bit of time to do some refinement to this site. I need to add some additional functionality and I've moved some items around to make a it a bit more user friendly so stay tuned as it evolves.

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Permalink Reply by Donald Fitchett Open Networker on August 16, 2010 at 1:43pm

Ok, I went back to your YouTube, it is only displayed when a new subscriber first subscribes. It is the same viral strategy Twitter recently launched, (who got the idea from FB :>), except it's on Youtube. On twitter, they now display a couple people someone is following, when you first follow that person, as recommendations of more people you may like to follow.

In Youtube, they showed that screen because I was first subscribing to your channel, so they recommend I also subscribe to a sample of 5 people you also subscribe to.

Facebook does it with friends, recommends friends of a person you just choose as a new friend.

So basically it was just Youtube catching up with the viral technique to build up traffic and users. :>)

My personal opinion, SEO will always be the first and primary concern, even in the social media market, because it is how all entities rank and return search results. Not just search engines, youtube, facebook, twitter, and any future media. Just like all computers have ones and zeros, it will always be that way. It just the way it is looked at may vary as a tangent. For example, some day the more social connections a site has to it, may give more rank than the number of links back, but the fact remains, searches will always being using one or the other or both, to return the most authoritive information possible. :>) The people who create tools like DandyId (PR5) and sharethis.com (PR7 one we use) know this, that is why they built the tool the way they did. And to capitalize on information collected for serving up advertising in the future. :>)

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Permalink Reply by Donald Fitchett Open Networker on August 16, 2010 at 1:58pm

Oh PS: I never did like wordpress, too bugy and difficult to be all you can be. :>) I prefer Ning network or blogspot. Check out this example http://reliability.ning.com/ or blogspot http://bin95.blogspot.com/

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Permalink Reply by Bernard Martin on August 16, 2010 at 4:47pm

I've have a blogspot blog for a couple years but decided to try wordpress for the Manufacturing Supply Channel Blog. In retrospect I should have just built a second blogspot... but at the time of the creation, Blogspot and Google where having all kinds of log in issues if you had multiple accounts, which I do for various organizations.... That seems to be resolved now so I may migrate info back to the Blog here... jury is still out until I see what happens with Google in the next few weeks.

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Permalink Reply by Bernard Martin on August 16, 2010 at 4:44pm

Yes, there's a lot of functionality being added to YouTube and I suspect there's going to be lots more if Hulu Floats

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