I studied World War 2 in school – to say that this video is unique is an understatement. We are now getting to the time where those who lived during the World War 2 era are dying and can no longer tell their story. Hopefully the young generation of today will be able to learn from this video.

The brave little girl, who’s family defied the Nazis until they were betrayed lives on far longer than she ever would have hoped.

As part of my job as SEO Manager at Sitening, I get to contribute to the Raven blog (Raven is the most powerful suite of Internet Marketing tools available online). The Raven blog is read by Search industry professionals from across the country. This means that articles on the Raven blog need to be well written, of high-quality, provide useful information and be thought provoking. As a contributor, my posts not only represent my professional thoughts, they also represent Raven and Sitening.

So it’s a huge honour personally and professionally to have one of the articles I authored, 7 Social Media Websites and Their Impact on SEO, listed as one of the best internet marketing posts of 2008 (scroll down to Social Media: Strategy for Social Sites – mine is the third one down). I’m particularly honored  because the winners were chosen by Tamar Weinberg, Managing Editor at Search Engine Roundtable and owner of Techipedia.

See Bob’s domain video segment in full.

I doubt that it will be as cool as this though:

• The number of followers you have
• The power of this network of followers
• The pace of your updates
• The completeness of your profile
• …a few others

I got a grade of 62 out of 100 – certainly not the geekiest, but in a geek eat geek world, I just had to know.

I think the concept is an ambitious one, and epitomises what needs to be done for Nashville to be taken seriously as a tech town. As has been seen at today’s Barcamp Nashville, there are a lot of extremely talented people with extremely big ideas. The fact that they are willing to share their ideas and route to success amongst their peers speaks volumes.

However, I think the problem with something like this, is that the people who really need to attend a conference like Barcamp Nashville never actually do. Partly, I believe where this is where my frustration of today’s event comes from. A lot of the presenters I had seen give a presentation before, so I wasn’t too interested in some of the talks on offer. This is not to say that they aren’t great speakers, because I have a lot of admiration for them, it’s just, well…I’ve seen it before.

On the other hand, I had to make the choice between a panel I would have liked to have seen and a couple of other things that were on at the same time, but perhaps this is just me being a whiney arsed Englishman (because moaning is a national past-time of the English). Please add me as a voice who would like to see the event spread out over multiple days – it just makes sense, maybe not logistically, but for more effective networking and presentation choices.

Oh, and one more thing before I finish, if this is Barcamp, why on earth was the bar so small? I’ve seen bigger bars in my granny’s closet.

Cheers.

With that being said, I have a personal project that has been in the works for a long time that I fully believe in (yeah yeah, like you haven’t heard that before). Unfortunately, I can’t really reveal anything about the project but I can reveal at least what I’m looking for and what the majority of the work would entail.

Scenario/Vision/Scope:

• A user fills in information via a form. That information will then be published on its own page (with a search engine friendly URL). The page design/layout has already been designed (to an extent).
• The short term of the project is just for the South. However, in the long term I would like to branch out to the entire U.S

Apart from that, my lips are sealed. If you’re remotely interested, leave a comment. Anyone leaving a snidey comment will be Googlebombed into submission. Heh, just kidding, I’ll spam you instead, I don’t have time for a Googlebomb campaign.

Oh, did I say ‘please’?