Zen mind: A personal view

Zen mind the "Natural" State is our essence: none even, no identity, no meme, no beliefs.

Any idea of "What is" takes us away from what should be at the moment, all ideas need be gone. There is not even an "I", the ideas to have.

The natural is acts as a result of the movement of the universe in the same way that an artist is moved by his "universe" brush.

All "lessons", take "spiritual" paths or "Holy" practices actually us away from the moment because it takes a "Me", they, with an agenda of whatsoever to win something to do. All of them from the eternal identity-free moment.

The only way that the "what is" can be experienced is all traces of losing themselves in this case could not be "What is" experienced because there is no one, to experience it.

No description of the State of natural spirit is false - it can not be described and who says you can is something fool themselves and/or - describes, is there an identity, to describe has and if there is to date can be real.

There is not even an "ultimate" State to win because the idea that there is takes us away.

All it is, is the process of the universe in its all-ness. There is no such thing as an "enlightened" or "unenlightened". These are just an idea of what is.

Even "Bliss" or "Transcendence" is a State of mind, a "Me" that these feelings to experience.

Thoughts are the glue of our belief structures. "I" is the creation of thoughts and beliefs.

What is operated if we think we are good human beings is the operating system of the brain types, demanding meme or belief structures, the content our identities feel itself running.

The only act awareness "can do", is "Self" awareness release. Awareness, to be fully as, "I" must no attached to it - and then, who understand there?

The natural state is where everything is useful and meaningless – everything is part of the whole and no link in the chain can be more important than the other.

Action and thought from this location, is an immediate, clear response to the call of the moment. It is the moment, the universe acts, not the person.

An absence of agitation is true peace, an absence of self-generated internal activity. So peace can not "done", or created - there is an absence do. This allows to be authentic "what is ness". All action from this State is completely harmonious (even if it "out there was someone" to experience the harmony - are not) and no conflict. There is nothing there to conflict with something else.

Is a natural feels the world clean, while a "Me" full of beliefs and ideas of itself, overlays this genuine feelings with external content draw you with emotional "free". This fee is reactive to create the world around him, constantly conflict as it tries to dispel.

(Modern research shows that there is a gap of about half a second between the body/mind of establishing a physical action and our conscious intention to do so.) This indicates that the body/mind instructions, no conscious intention acts according to his conviction. This is "I" just along for the ride – late - while pretending to be responsible.)

What's next from the moment only refers to this moment. It's already past and how experienced is not existent,. To keep something experienced or said at this moment, to the dead life past.

If you can touch it, show it taste has reality? This is not to say it's not real, but it may not really be. It could be a construct of ideas.

What actual or real can only because if all believe all ideas, all thoughts, all traces of identity are verschwunden-, if there no "I" are left to us from the moment take. If the eternal now moment is anything it is, this is the only way to be in it.

Thought is required only of use if there are certain of the moment for a task for called is. Beyond the specific call of the moment think keeping is the same as your arm over his head constantly to keep or keep your abdominal muscles tense all the time.

If you took every real current experience of natural is - the fragrance of a flower, a sunset, the death of a friend, a humorous situation, the movement of smoke on the wind - all of these at any moment but with no itself, are not "I", these things are aware, this is the natural state of mind.

How: understanding cross-cultural analysis

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Cross-cultural analysis could be a very perplexing field to understand with many different viewpoints, aims and concepts. The origins of cross-cultural analysis in the 19th century world of colonialism was strongly grounded in the concept of cultural evolution, which claimed that all societies progress through an identical series of distinct evolutionary stages.

The origin of the word culture comes from the Latin verb colere = "tend, guard, cultivate, till". This concept is a human construct rather than a product of nature. The use of the English word in the sense of "cultivation through education" is first recorded in 1510. The use of the word to mean "the intellectual side of civilization" is from 1805; that of "collective customs and achievements of a people" is from 1867. The term Culture shock was first used in 1940.

How do we define culture?

There are literally hundreds of different definitions as writers have attempted to provide the all-encompassing definition.

Culture consists of language, ideas, beliefs, customs, taboos, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, ceremonies and symbols. It has played a crucial role in human evolution, allowing human beings to adapt the environment to their own purposes rather than depend solely on natural selection to achieve adaptive success. Every human society has its own particular culture, or sociocultural system. (Adapted from source: Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Generally culture can be seen as consisting of three elements:

Values - Values are ideas that tell what in life is considered important.

Norms - Norms consists of expectations of how people should behave in different situations.

Artefacts - Things or material culture - reflects the culture's values and norms but are tangible and manufactured by man.

Origins and evolution of Cross-cultural analysis

The first cross-cultural analyzes done in the West, were by anthropologists like Edward Burnett Tylor and Lewis H Morgan in the 19th century. Anthropology and Social Anthropology have come a long way since the belief in a gradual climb from stages of lower savagery to civilization, epitomized by Victorian England. Nowadays the concept of "culture" is in part a reaction against such earlier Western concepts and anthropologists argue that culture is "human nature," and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically and communicate such abstractions to others.

Typically anthropologists and social scientists tend to study people and human behavior among exotic tribes and cultures living in far off places rather than do field work among white-collared literate adults in modern cities. Advances in communication and technology and socio-political changes started transforming the modern workplace yet there were no guidelines based on research to help people interact with other people from other cultures. To address this gap arose the discipline of cross-cultural analysis or cross-cultural communication. The main theories of cross-cultural communication draw from the fields of anthropology, sociology, communication and psychology and are based on value differences among cultures. Edward T. Hall, Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars, Shalom Schwartz and Clifford Geertz are some of the major contributors in this field.

How the social sciences study and analyze culture

Cultural anthropologists focus on symbolic culture whereas archaeologists focus on material and tangible culture. Sociobiologists study instinctive behavior in trying to explain the similarities, rather than the differences between cultures. They believe that human behavior cannot be satisfactorily explained entirely by 'cultural', 'environmental' or 'ethnic' factors. Some sociobiologists try to understand the many aspects of culture in the light of the concept of the meme, first introduced by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins suggests the existence of units of culture - memes - roughly analogous to genes in evolutionary biology. Although this view has gained some popular currency, other anthropologists generally reject it.

Different types of cross-cultural comparison methods

Nowadays there are many types of Cross-cultural comparisons. One method is comparison of case studies. Controlled comparison among variants of a common derivation is another form of comparison. Typically anthropologists and other social scientists favor the third type called Cross-cultural studies, which uses field data from many societies to examine the scope of human behaviour and to test hypotheses about human behavior and culture.

Controlled comparison examines similar characteristics of a few societies while cross-cultural studies uses a sufficiently large sample that statistical analysis can be made to show relationships or lack of relationships between certain traits in question. The anthropological method of holocultural analysis or worldwide cross-cultural analysis is designed to test or develop a proposition through the statistical analysis of data on a sample of ten or more non literate societies from three or more geographical regions of the world. In this approach, cultural traits are taken out of the context of the whole culture and are compared with cultural traits in widely diverse cultures to determine patterns of regularities and differences within the broad base of the study.

Aims of cross-cultural analysis

Cross-cultural communication or inter cultural communication looks at how people from different cultural backgrounds try to communicate. It also tries to produce some guidelines, which help people from different cultures to better communicate with each other.

Culture has an interpretative function for the members of a group, which share that particular culture. Although all members of a group or society might share their culture, expressions of culture-resultant behaviour are modified by the individuals' personality, upbringing and life-experience to a considerable degree. Cross-cultural analysis aims at harnessing this utilitarian function of culture as a tool for increasing human adaptation and improving communication.

Cross-cultural management is seen as a discipline of international management focusing on cultural encounters, which aims to discover tools to handle cultural differences seen as sources of conflict or miscommunication.

How laypersons see culture

It is a daunting challenge to convey the findings of research and field work and discuss cross-cultural issues in diverse contexts such as corporate culture, workplace culture and inter cultural competency as laypeople tend to use the word 'culture' to refer to something refined, artistic and exclusive to a certain group of "artists" who function in a separate sphere than ordinary people in the workplace. Some typical allusions to culture:

Culture is the section in the newspaper where they review theatre, dance performances or write book reviews etc.

Culture is what parents teach their kids and grandparents teach their grandchildren.

"You don't have any culture," is what people say to you when you put your feet on the table at lunchtime or spit in front of guests.

"They just have a different culture," people say about those whose behaviour they don't understand but have to tolerate.

Different models of cross-cultural analysis

There are many models of cross-cultural analysis currently valid. The 'Iceberg' and the 'Onion' models are widely known. The popular 'Iceberg model' of culture developed by Selfridge and Sokolik, 1975 and W.L. French and C.H. Bell in 1979, identifies a visible area consisting of behaviour or clothing or symbols and artifacts of some form and a level of values or an invisible level.

Trying to define as complex a phenomenon as culture with just two layers proved quite a challenge and the 'Onion' model arose. Geert Hofstede (1991) proposed a set of four layers, each of which includes the lower level or is a result of the lower level. According to this view, 'culture' is like an onion that can be peeled, layer-by layer to reveal the content. Hofstede sees culture as "the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another."

Cross-cultural analysis often plots 'dimensions' such as orientation to time, space, communication, competitiveness, power etc., as complimentary pairs of attributes and different cultures are positioned in a continuum between these.

Hofstede dimensions to distinguish between cultures

The five dimensions Hofstede uses to distinguish between national cultures are:

Power distance, which measures the extent to which members of society accept how power is distributed unequally in that society.

Individualism tells how people look after themselves and their immediate family only in contrast with Collectivism, where people belong to in-groups (families, clans or organizations) who look after them in exchange for loyalty.
The dominant values of Masculinity, focussing on achievement and material success are contrasted with those of Femininity, which focus on caring for others and quality of life.

Uncertainty avoidance measures the extent to which people feel threatened by uncertainty and ambiguity and try to avoid these situations.

Confucian dynamism. This Long-term versus Short-term Orientation measured the fostering of virtues related to the past, i.e., respect for tradition, importance of keeping face and thrift.

Trompenaars dimensions to distinguish between cultures

Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (1997) adopt a similar onion-like model of culture. However, their model expands the core level of the very basic two-layered model, rather than the outer level. In their view, culture is made up of basic assumptions at the core level. These 'basic assumptions' are somewhat similar to 'values' in the Hofstede model.

Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner use seven dimensions for their model of culture:

Universalism vs Particularism (what is more important - rules or relationships?)

Individualism vs Communitarianism (do we function in a group or as an individual?)

Neutral vs Emotional (do we display our emotions or keep them in check?)

Specific vs Diffuse (how far do we get involved?)

Achievement vs Ascription (do we have to prove ourselves to gain status or is it given to us just because we are a part of a structure?)

Attitude to Time

Past- / present- / future-orientatedness


Sequential time vs Synchronic time(do we do things one at a time or several things at once?)

Internal vs External Orientation (do we aim to control our environment or cooperate with it?)

Criticism of current models

One of the weaknesses of cross-cultural analysis has been the inability to transcend the tendency to equalize culture with the concept of the nation state. A nation state is a political unit consisting of an autonomous state inhabited predominantly by a people sharing a common culture, history, and language or languages. In real life, cultures do not have strict physical boundaries and borders like nation states. Its expression and even core beliefs can assume many permutations and combinations as we move across distances.

There is some criticism in the field that this approach is out of phase with global business today, with transnational companies facing the challenges of the management of global knowledge networks and multicultural project teams, interacting and collaborating across boundaries using new communication technologies.

Some writers like Nigel Holden (2001) suggest an alternative approach, which acknowledges the growing complexity of inter- and intra-organizational connections and identities, and offers theoretical concepts to think about organizations and multiple cultures in a globalizing business context.

In spite of all the shortcomings and criticisms faced by the Hofstede model, it is very much favoured by trainers and researchers. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, it is a wonderful and easy to use tool to quantify cultural differences so that they can be discussed. Discussing and debating differences is after all the main method of training and learning. Secondly, Hofstede's research at IBM was conducted in the workplace, so Hofstede tools brings cross-cultural analysis closer to the business side of the workplace, away from anthropology, which is a matter for universities.

Bibliography and suggested reading:

Dawkins, Richard (1976). The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press
French, W.L. and C.H. Bell (1979). Organization development. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
Hofstede, Geert "Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind", 1997
Holden, Nigel 2001, Cross-Cultural Management: A Knowledge Management Perspective, Financial Times Management

Quotation adapted from The Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com

Rana Sinha is a cross-cultural trainer and author. He was born in India, studied and lived in many places and traveled in over 80 countries, acquiring cross-cultural knowledge and building an extensive network of professionals. He has spent many years developing and delivering Cross-cultural Training, Professional Communications skills, Personal Development and Management solutions to all types of organizations and businesses in many countries. He now lives in Helsinki, Finland and runs http://www.dot-connect.com, which specializes in human resource development as well as communication and management skills training with cross-cultural emphasis. Read his cross-cultural blog http://originalwavelength.blogspot.com

Improve your blog page rank with Z list

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What is Z list?

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How help Z list can be set?

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To create 101 different strategies to link popularity

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Link Building... Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it's still the trump card for higher rankings.

Many of us have been hoping that it would go away. In Brett Tabke's 5/18 Robots.txt entry, he echoed a sentiment that many, many webmasters hold on to as a hope:

What happens to all those Wavers that think [ i ]Getting Links = SEO[ /i ] when that majority of the Google algo is devalued in various ways? Wavers built their fortunes on "links=seo". When that goes away, the Wavers have zero to hold on to.

The pertinent questions:

Will link building still be very important for rankings in the medium term?

When will link popularity be devalued in favor of other algo elements (that are less tedious, from a webmaster's point of view)?

The answers:

Sorry, but link building is still going to be the SEO trump card for the foreseeable future.

I wouldn't hold your breath for search engine algorithms to place less importance on link popularity until the Semantic Web arrives, or maybe when HTTP gets replaced by a new protocol. Because links are still the basic connector, the basic relationship, on the Web. And for the forseeable future they're going to be the easiest way for a computer program to judge the importance and trustworthiness of a Web page.

What will happen to the way search algorithms score links is already happening. The Google algo has become much more elegant and advanced, devaluing staggering amount of links that shouldn't count, and placing more emphasis on trusted links. And the trust and juice given by those links is then verified by elements like user data, domain age, and other relatively hard-to-spoof factors.

But please, don't fool yourself. Links that should count are still the key to rankings (in Google, at least -- and MSN and Yahoo! are only a few short years behind). In that spirit, Aaron and I have created our 101 Ways to Build (and Not Build) Links in 2006. (Yeah, it just so happened that there were exactly 101!)

Oh, and mad props to our inspiration, 131 Legitimate Link Building Strategies, one of the original authority documents on link building. It was just getting a bit rusty, that's all ("Host your own Web Ring"?). Anyway, enjoy the update. It's guaranteed to be accurate until January 1, 2007. ;-)

71 Good Ways to Build Links

Love for Lists

1. Build a "101 list". These get Dugg all the time, and often become "authority documents". People can't resist linking to these (hint, hint).

2. Create 10 easy tips to help you [insert topic here] articles. Again, these are exceptionally easy to link to.

3. Create extensive resource lists for a specific topic (see Mr Ploppy for inspiration).

4. Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category.

5. Create a list of gurus/experts. If you impress the people listed well enough, or find a way to make your project look somewhat official, the gurus may end up linking to your site or saying thanks. (Sometimes flattery is the easiest way to strike up a good relationship with an "authority".)

Developing Authority & Being Easy to Link At

6. Make your content easy to understand so many people can understand and spread your message. (It's an accessibility thing.)

7. Put some effort in to minimize grammatical or spelling errors, especially if you need authoritative people like librarians to link to your site.

8. Have an easily accessible privacy policy and about section so your site seems more trustworthy. Including a picture of yourself may also help build your authority.

PPC as a Link Building Tool

9. Buy relevant traffic with a pay per click campaign. Relevant traffic will get your site more visitors and brand exposure. When people come to your site, regardless of the channel in which they found it, there is a possibility that they will link to you.

News & Syndication

10. Syndicate an article at EzineArticles, GoArticles, iSnare, etc. The great thing about good article sites is that their article pages actually rank highly and send highly qualified traffic.

11. Submit an article to industry news site. Have an SEO site? Write an article and submit to WebProNews. Have a site about BLANK? Submit to BLANKinformationalsite.com.

12. Syndicate a press release. Take the time to make it GOOD (compelling, newsworthy). Email it to some handpicked journalists and bloggers. Personalize the email message. For good measure, submit it to PRWeb, PRLeap, etc.

13. Track who picks up your articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.

14. Trade articles with other webmasters.

15. Email a few friends when you have important relevant news asking them for their feedback and/or if they would mind referencing it if they find your information useful.

16. Write about, and link to, companies with "in the news" pages. They link back to stories and blog posts which cover their developments. This is obviously easiest if you have a news section or blog. Do a Google search for [your industry + "in the news"].

17. Perform surveys and studies that make people feel important. If you can make other people feel important they will help do your marketing for you for free. Salary.com did a study on how underpaid mothers were, and they got many high quality links.

Directories, Meme Trackers & Social Bookmarking

18. This tip is an oldie but goodie: submit your site to DMOZ and other directories that allow free submissions.

19. Submit your site to paid directories. Another oldie. Just remember that quality matters.

20. Create your own topical directory about your field of interest. Obviously link to your own site, deeplinking to important content where possible. Of course, if you make it into a truly useful resource, it will attract links on its own.

21. Tag related sites on sites like Del.icio.us. If people find the sites you tag to be interesting, emotionally engaging, or timely they may follow the trail back to your site.

22. If you create something that is of great quality make sure you ask a few friends to tag it for you. If your site gets on the front page of Digg or on the Del.icio.us popular list, hundreds more bloggers will see your site, and potentially link to it.

23. Look at meme trackers to see what ideas are spreading. If you write about popular spreading ideas with plenty of original content (and link to some of the original resources), your site may get listed as a source on the meme tracker site.

Local & Business Links

24. Join the Better Business Bureau.

25. Get a link from your local chamber of commerce.

26. Submit your link to relevant city and state governmental resources. (Easier in some countries than in others.)

27. List your site at the local library's Web site.

28. See if your manufacturers or retailers or other business partners might be willing to link to your site.

29. Develop business relationships with non-competing businesses in the same field. Leverage these relationships online and off, by recommending each other via links and distributing each other's business cards.

30. Launch an affiliate program. Most of the links you pick up will not have SEO value, but the added exposure will almost always lead to additional "normal" links.

Easy Free Links

31. Depending on your category and offer, you will find Craigslist to be a cheap or free classified service.

32. It is pretty easy to ask or answer questions on Yahoo! Answers and provide links to relevant resources.

33. It is pretty easy to ask or answer questions on Google Groups and provide links to relevant resources.

34. If you run a fairly reputable company, create a page about it in the Wikipedia or in topic specific wikis. If it is hard to list your site directly, try to add links to other pages that link to your site.

35. It takes about 15 minutes to set up a topical Squidoo page, which you can use to look like an industry expert. Link to expert documents and popular useful tools in your fields, and also create a link back to your site.

36. Submit a story to Digg that links to an article on your site. You can also submit other content and have some of its link authority flow back to your profile page.

37. If you publish an RSS feed and your content is useful and regularly updated, some people will syndicate your RSS content (and some of those will provide links... unfortunately, some will not).

38. Most forums allow members to leave signature links or personal profile links. If you make quality contributions some people will follow these links and potentially read your site, link at your site, and/or buy your products.

Have a Big Heart for Reviews

39. Most brands are not well established online, so if your site has much authority, your review related content often ranks well.

40. Review relevant products on Amazon.com. We have seen this draw in direct customer enquiries and secondary links.

41. Create product lists on Amazon.com that review top products and also mention your background (LINK!).

42. Review related sites on Alexa to draw in related traffic streams.

43. Review products and services on shopping search engines like ePinions to help build your authority.

44. If you buy a product or service you really like and are good at leaving testimonials, many of those turn into links. Two testimonial writing tips -- make them believable, and be specific where possible.

Blogs & the Blogosphere

45. Start a blog. Not just for the sake of having one. Post regularly and post great content. Good execution is what gets the links.

46. Link to other blogs from your blog. Outbound links are one of the cheapest forms of marketing available. Many bloggers also track who is linking to them or where their traffic comes from, so linking to them is an easy way to get noticed by some of them.

47. Comment on other blogs. Most of these comments will not provide much direct search engine value, but if your comments are useful, insightful, and relevant they can drive direct traffic. They also help make the other bloggers become aware of you, and they may start reading your blog and/or linking to it.

48. Technorati tag pages rank well in Yahoo! and MSN, and to a lesser extent in Google. Even if your blog is fairly new you can have your posts featured on the Technorati tag pages by tagging your posts with relevant tags.

49. If you create a blog make sure you list it in a few of the best blog directories.

Design as a Linking Element

50. Web 2.0-ify your site. People love to link to anything with AJAX. Even in the narrowest of niches, there is some kind of useful functionality you can build with AJAX.

51. Validate and 508 your site. This (indirect) method makes your site more trustworthy and linkable, especially from governmental sites or design-oriented communities. There are even a few authoritative directories of standards-compliant sites.

52. Order a beautiful CSS redesign. A nice design can get links from sites like CSS Vault.

Hire Help

53. Hire a publicist. Good old fashioned 'PR' (not PageRank) can still work wonders. Andy Hagans now offers a link baiting publicity service.

54. Hire a consultant. Yes, you can outsource link building. Just make sure to go with someone good. We recommend WeBuildPages, Debra Mastaler and, ahem, Andy Hagans.

Link Trading

55. Swap some links. What?! Did we really just recommend reciprocal link building? Yes, on a small scale, and with relevant partners that will send you traffic. Stay away from the link trading hubs and networks.

56. In case you didn't get the memo -- when swapping links, try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages. Do not try to get links from pages that list hundreds of off topic link partners. Only seek link exchanges that you would consider pursuing even if search engines did not exist. Instead of thinking just about your topic when exchanging links, think about demographic audience sets.

Buying Sites, Renting Links & Advertisements

57. Rent some high quality links from a broker. Text Link Ads is the most reputable firm in this niche.

58. Rent some high quality links directly from Web sites. Sometimes the most powerful rented links come direct from sites not actively renting links.

59. Become a sponsor. All sorts of charities, contests, and conferences link to their sponsors. This can be a great way to gain visibility, links, and a warm feeling in your heart.

60. Sell items on eBay and offer to donate the profits to a charity. Many charities will link both to the eBay auction and to your site.

61. Many search algorithms seem biased toward older established sites. It may be faster to buy an old site with a strong link profile, and link it to your own site, than to try to start building authority links from scratch.

Use the Courts (Proceed with Caution)

62. Sue Google.

63. Get sued by a company people hate. When Aaron was sued by Traffic Power, he got hundreds or thousands of links, including links from sites like Wired and The Wall Street Journal.

Freebies & Giveaways

64. Hold a contest. Contests make great link bait. A few-hundred-dollar prize can result in thousands of dollars worth of editorial quality links. Enough said.

65. Build a tool collection. Original and useful tools (and collections of tools) get a lot of link love. What do you think ranking for "mortgage calculator" is worth?

66. Create and release open source site design templates for content management systems like Wordpress. Don't forget the "Designed by example.com" bit in the footer!

67. Offer free samples in exchange for feedback.

68. Release a Firefox extension. Make sure you have a download and/or support page on your site which people can link to.

Conferences & Social Interaction

69. It is easy to take pictures of important events and tell narratives about why they are important. Pictures of (drunk?) "celebrities" in your industry make great link bait.

70. Leverage new real world relationships into linking relationships. If you go to SEO related conferences, people like Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, and Danny Sullivan are readily accessible. Similarly, in other industries, people who would normally seem inaccessible are exceptionally accessible at trade conferences. It is much easier to seem "real" in person. Once you create social relationships in person, it is easy to extend that onto the web.

71. Engaging, useful, and interesting interviews are an easy way to create original content. And they spread like wildfire.

30 Bad Ways to Build Links

Here are a few link buiding methods that may destroy your brand or get your site banned/penalized/filtered from major search engines, or both.

Directories

72. Submit your site to 200 cheesy paid directories (averaging $15 a pop) that send zero traffic and sell offtopic run-of-site links.

Forum Spam

73. List 100 Web sites in your signature file.

74. Exclusively post only when you can add links to your sites in the post area.

75. Post nothing but "me too" posts to build your post count. Use in combination with a link-rich signature file.

76. Ask questions about who provides the best [WIDGET], where [WIDGET] is an item that you sell. From the same IP address create another forum account and answer your own question raving about how great your own site is.

77. As a new member to various forums, ask the same question at 20 different forums on the same day.

78. Post on forum threads that are years outdated exclusively to link to your semi-related website.

79. Sign up for profiles on forums you never intend on commenting on.

Blog Spam

80. Instead of signing blog comments with your real name, sign them with spammy keywords.

81. Start marketing your own site hard on your first blog comment. Add no value to the comment section. Mention nothing other than you recently posted on the same subject at _____ and everyone should read it. Carpet bomb dozens of blogs with this message.

82. Say nothing unique or relevant to the post at hand. Make them assume an automated bot hit their comments.

83. Better yet, use automated bots to hit their comments. List at least 30 links in each post. Try to see if you can hit any servers hard enough to make them crash.

84. Send pings to everyone talking about a subject. In your aggregation post, state nothing of interest. Only state that other people are talking about the topic.

85. Don't even link to any of the sites you are pinging. Send them pings from posts that do not even reference them.

Garbage Link Exchanges

86. Send out link exchange requests mentioning PageRank.

87. Send link exchange emails which look like an automated bot sent them (little or no customization, no personal names, etc.).

88. Send link exchange requests to Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Tim Converse, Google, and Yahoo!.

89. Get links from nearly-hidden sections of websites listing hundreds or thousands of off topic sites.

Spam People in Person

90. Go to webmaster conferences and rave about how rich you are, and how your affiliates make millions doing nothing.

91. Instead of asking people what their name is, ask what their URL is. As soon as you get their URL ask if they have linked to your site yet and if not, why not.

Be Persistant

92. Send a webmaster an alert to every post you make on your website.

93. Send a webmaster an email every single day asking for them to link to your website.

94. Send references to your site to the same webmaster from dozens of different email accounts (you sly dog).

95. If the above do not work to get you a free link, offer them $1 for their time. Increase your offer by a dollar each day until they give in.

Getting Links by Being a Jerk

96. Emulate the RIAA. When in doubt, file a lawsuit against a 12-year-old girl. (Failing that, obtain bad press by any means necessary.)

97. Steal content published by well known names. Strip out any attribution. Aggregate many popular channels and just wait for them to start talking about you.

98. Send thousands of fake referrals at every top ranking Web site, guaranteeing larger boobs, a 14-inch penis (is that length or girth?), or millions of dollars in free, unclaimed money.

99. Wear your URL on your t-shirt. Walk or drive your car while talking on a cell phone or reading a book. When you run into other people say "excuse you, jerk".

100. Spill coffee on people or find creative ways to insult people to coax them into linking at your site.

101. Sue other webmasters for deep linking to your site. Well, this is more "hilariously dumb" than it is a "bad linking practice".

Written by

Joe Lovrek expresslinking.com

Why is Facebook so popular? Understanding can your company increase

Earlier today I was checking out my friends status on Facebook, if I click on a post by one of my friends closer random. He has released search a video about the group "Answers in Genesis" status re posted after tax. Now, whether you with this agreement is not the point, the point is that he re-it posted and although I know he believes does not agree with this in creation, he unwittingly transported one against view on Facebook.

Companies must on Facebook... PERIOD!

In the last few months Facebook has beat Google as the number of visitors. Facebook is has changed how Facebook and way # 2 ranked website in the world and the new method of marketing, to talk about the company for your customers.

Why should you put your business on Facebook? If the two above examples sufficient's here another one.

Most people go when you find that opened a new business or online come to Facebook, check your network and see if it bad press about you. Your future customers will tell you (and your friends) If you like, what you have to sell or promote, whether you're on Facebook, or not. Facebook offers a "presence" and what is a way to even more important to have a direct conversation with your customer base.

Ok... Is this old news, right? Well, it's a new twist on it. Bring to the "meme"! What is a meme? Chances are you know what you are, but still not up now you consciously been made.

Richard Dawkins first used the word in his book "The Selfish Gene". Basically, a meme is a self-replicating ideas created by melodies, technology, catch-phrases and the like.

What does this so, have, with my business to do on Facebook?

In the first paragraph, my friend had introduced a meme to it via the link. The meme triggered a response (humor) and my buddy like spread humor, and he did to his hundreds of friends. Memes are good if you distribute and Facebook is to spread the Queen Mother memes. These small "mind viruses" can be created, how do companies through their marketing campaigns. When you start to spread good, positive memes to get better on the social network of # 1.

Through my friends single post he spread an idea and an organization the he even believe that more than seven hundred people and those people who probably can contain thousands of people on your Facebook profile to your networks, the hundreds, if not, booked you get the idea.

You can accept the change, you can prosper business. Social networks are not a fad, and they are not removed. If you are building a relationship with your customers on Facebook, you are at risk on the cutting edge of extinction.

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Success in the balance

It doesn't matter what body you in, male or female born. Sex has nothing to do with success and happiness. So whether you're male or female, the balance between the male and the female energy in you is a key component to the holistic success.

A cultural memes existed for many years either creates a female or male definition of success. Therefore, we have an old locked paradigm, the only definition of success is an achievement in terms of measurable, material. This action caused a falling in love with the future and a resentment against the now. (Called resentment disregard or lack of appreciation.)

Then, it's a revolutionary group, are obsessed with the female side (luck in the now), the upset of the male (objectives and drive for the future) have become.

So, by releasing the control of our ego masking, getting back to our natural balance both masculine (destroy the present future - objectives drive and inspiration to create) and the female (happiness, satisfaction, appreciation for now). This is the natural cycle, we develop on the border between the male and the female. Between the celebration of the now and the INSPIRATION of the future. This is how we achieve holistic success. Balanced success.

Therefore hesitate so important for success. We are obsessed with the male, performance, and lose the beauty of life. With this model of life nothing met and we are prone to depression. Remembering that depression in the can now exist. Depression is present in its root, because what we have and what we want are different. In the now are the same what we want and what we have.

Motivate healthy success needs therefore to hesitate a balance and inspiration. The quality is the reluctance of crucial importance, because if we hesitate and sit there, moan about what life should be, would be happening as if..., then it is not to hesitate. It is the depreciation. Hesitation with health we must sit in appreciation.

I have worked with many people who meditate on a daily basis. The whole art of meditation is to come from the future and in the now. Eastern art of meditation are fantastic process for hesitate, but their teachings in the West are cumbersome and time consuming. Sitting in meditation, want for anything is at all not meditation is depression. This is one of the reasons people away from it, shy, because it is so poorly informed.

Eastern meditation has by Western teachers and teachers the old meme life success fit distorted been. You say "meditate so you can receive, achieve something, something, achieve whatsoever." The entire Foundation of a brilliant science of Eastern philosophy was damaged in a part of a masculine paradigm, and that means "to be happy must reach." It is only half right. Happy to have you both to achieve and cannot be achieved.

How many people teach meditation properly in the West? Find the answer to the meditation brochures, in your local area. Each meditation that promises a result is not meditation, it is something else. Feed ambition, teachers will promote a result meditation. Less stress, more this, less that - automatically revealed your ignorance. Meditation is to hesitate and hesitation comes from empty.

Be really fully in life, we need this balance of performance and empty. This is hesitation a space where life just is what it is and we are happy about it. Thankful. It is a counterweight to the half term, the Western masculine perception of "reach to get." Want to keep all your life, by some secret paradigm that keeps you from happiness to live? This is so unbalanced as the Eastern philosophy of "sitting on a cushion life to enjoy."

Real chaos comes when we need a balance of the reluctant but sit in meditation that are achieving "Stresslessness" want or being in a relationship, love, or play with your kids to reach family, working in the Office to achieve reach money, it's a hidden paradigm that can keep us really sick, unbalanced and anxious.

Mediocrity is terrible. A celebration of the feminine nor masculine in all of us. It's like beige. A nothing space: boredom. It is not in the NOW or inspired by the future and this is the sad mediocrity of average life happy. No wonder people are looking for substitutes. The West is obsessed with performance, in the East is now obsessed and the advanced person you need both to be owned, rather than dilute in a hybrid, impossible, where.

A major challenge is the mediocrity of the mass consciousness to avoid maintaining or have the need for people. For most people, life is like a tight rope and offered when a 6 lane motorway instead of the rope, take it. This is GOT TO and should be thinking. Don't blame them. It is of course want to safety but we can be also wise and see the mass of consciousness creates all problems such as depression, violence, fear and uncertainty come join the mediocrity of the highway from the choices people make. To stay in employment relationships that are not inspiring or happy you hate.

Success is a balance between now and the future. Mediocrity, created mediocrity in the other. Brilliance in one, create brilliance in the other. More can embrace your feminine side and celebrate this now for what you have, the more inspired by the future, be grateful.

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Techno narcissism - life in "Shooting"

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Digital gear is getting cheaper, smaller and better all the time, from cameras and MP3 players to the latest little netbooks and GPS units. Every gadget and gee-gaw has its obvious function, but it's in the not-so-obvious combinations of these new technologies that we find the excitement and eternal newness that we seem to crave. We also find some real silly ideas, along with good ones that we grow tired of, so there is a constant influx of "new and improved."

For instance, Chrysler says that it will start a build-to-order program in 2009, for 2010 models, offering a 3G-to-Wi-Fi device that will let you cruise the highway and surf the net at the same time. Drivers can use voice commands to perform common functions wired into the auto systems, while passengers can link up to cyberspace with any Wi-Fi-capable PDA, iPod, computer or other high-tech doohickey. Think of all the combinations possible with all these devices.

Still, one of the more intriguing possibilities combines a losing idea of Bill Gates' that no one even talks about anymore. He first brought it up in the mid-1990s, but it was quickly laughed away. However, the jabbermeisters of the Internet are starting to percolate on the subject again, since it is apparent that Microsoft "researchers" never stopped working on it up there in the Pacific Northwest.

The following was posted this past April on Splashdot.ord ("News for nerds, stuff that matters"):

Microsoft researchers are developing a way to enable you to capture every moment of your life and store it on your computer. The principal researcher with Microsoft's research arm, Gordon Bell, is developing a way for everyone to remember those special moments. The nine-year project, called MyLifeBits, has Bell supplementing his own memory by collecting as much information as he can about his life. He's trying to store a lifetime on his laptop. He's gone on to collect images of every Web page he's ever visited, television shows he's watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. Calculating that he saves about a gigabyte of information every month, he noted that he tries to only save photos of a megabyte or less. Bell figures one could store everything about his life, from start to finish, using a terabyte of storage.

Six months of replies and ripostes has created a very entertaining web page, and all of the objections that could be raised against this, well, "totalizing" notion probably have been raised. Number crunchers dispute the storage calculation, while privacy advocates had a score of targets among those few hundred words. Yet this kind of thinking should concern everyone, because the relentless march of progress will make the equipment needed to pull off a MyLifeBits-type operation, like all digital toys and tools, cheaper, smaller and better as time passes.

Completing the circle No, the article didn't get off track. It just took a while to get around the subject's ever-widening circle. Remember the new Chrysler options, the roving Wi-Fi and the voice-commanded, total-digitized multimedia experience? Now consider, too, that you will be able to outfit your car with a back-up camera from the option list - and if the car companies don't add a camera up front for you, you can just get the Voyager Pro and record video, time and GPS location to an SD card (with capacities up to 8GB and 16GB, depending on whether you use the SD or SDHC format).

So, let's add it all up. With off-the-shelf tech gear, and build-to-order components from the car manufacturer, you can record everything you do in or out of your car. But I can hear some of you asking, Why not just say you can record your whole day and be done with it, what's this about the car?

The car is the Trojan Horse. Car cams are the way to make this kind of activity acceptable. Look at the history of vehicle video, as a subset of the history of video security and video surveillance: As soon as the technology got cheap enough, video cameras started being installed in police cars. They have proven invaluable, and not just in apprehending drug runners on I-95 in Florida or coyotes careening through the desert with a pickup bed full of day laborers. The recordings have also nailed cops in the act of brutalizing women drivers and tipping over soda machines.

Ways and memes So we may know how this meme, this new and almost subconscious cultural acceptance of "a recorded life," propagates. First it's in the cars, then everywhere else. Let's step back and think where this could lead. The first thing you should consider, which is actually one of the things most people never consider at all, is how easy it is to edit, delete, add to, subtract from or otherwise alter a digital video file, with or without audio. An artsy-techie geek (may I coin an acronym here, ATG?) can, without too much trouble, show you crashing your 1998 Jeep Cherokee into the side of the Pentagon. And hey, isn't that Dick Cheney riding shotgun?

Computer forensics being what it is - a new discipline whose good guys have to learn some dirty doggone stuff to be leading edge - there is just no way that the average person will be able to authenticate a digital pic or video clip. The trust level, initially, will be nil, nada, zero, zip and fuggedabowdit. And that's not all, of course. The quirky nature of the enterprise suggests a boatload of lawsuits - curious, spurious and no doubt furious, as well - over copyrights, trademark infringement, invasion of privacy and (naturally) discrimination, sexual harassment and racism.

Chinese Menu Gadget Development All of these things happen. Every bad thing that can occur in the world, does. Of course there are people who videotape movies in the theater, use ethnic slurs, peek up women's dresses and don't return wallets they find on the bus. They are going to have a lot of editing to do, unless they get the "voice-command option" and walk around all day half-barking "Start!" and "Stop!" orders to their shirt-button zoom-lens recorders.

In fact, this may be just Chinese Menu Gadget Development at work once again. Some of these technology combinations may just be solutions in search of very specific (picayune?) problems, while others are just downright silly. There may be some use for front- and rear-facing cameras in autos, inasmuch as providing additional viewing capability to a driver is a good thing. You may even have a good reason, from time to time, to record the images being captured by one or both cameras.

You also may be well served from time to time by a portable videorecorder, but not necessarily a tiny spycam on your baseball cap or behind your second shirt button. And you certainly don't need one that's always on. And that's because, you see, most of what happens in our lives is routine, uneventful, mundane, even silly and pointless - hardly the sort of material most people want to memorialize. Think of it this way: When everyone in class gets an "A" there is no more better, worse, average or "needs improvement"; when everyone is an "honored student" at Podunk Middle School you can bet there are no real "honor students" there; and if everything is accorded the status of a recorded "life highlight," then, of course, there are no highlights. In this milieu there is nothing special, period.

The default position There are five or six more articles brewing to take care of all the tangents leading off from this one. We've just barely touched on the legal issues involved, and had room for only brief mentions of the political, psychological, emotional and technological facets of the issue. Yet we can still come to one important conclusion here, and that concerns the "default position" that we would assign to such devices as we use for video security, video surveillance, self-defense, property protection and even personal picture taking.

Since most of our day is pedestrian stuff; since most of what we say is not the least bit memorable; since we already know what the hallway from the bedroom to the living room looks like; and since it doesn't take much effort in the age of cellphone cameras and $9 one-use videocams to snap a pic or shoot a video of something really special - for all these reasons and so many more, dear reader, the default position for any sort of MyLifeBits unit should be "off."

By Scott McQuarrie, representing the EZWatch Pro brand, a leading provider of computer based Security Cameras for business, commercial and government applications.

Ring tones: What's the point?

A quick Google search will produce countless articles trying to understand the
Popularity of 'Ringtones'; Hundreds of bloggers, who grow the lyrical about the benefits
Personalize their mobile phones. Interviews with "Experts" Profering sexy theories
about ringtones and identity construction lend an academic seriousness, the
Crazy frog phenomena. The numbers are pretty seriously to in the United States alone, the
Yankee Group ringtones will be forecast, millions worth $500. This is about the
GDP of Fiji.
Obviously needs a voice our cell phones but needs that voice to a
polyphonic adaptation of "living on a prayer"?

The latest figures indicate that young people the biggest consumers of mobile
Music. According to a survey of UK account 15-24 year of olds 80% the ringtone
Expenditure. Studies by Nick Anderson of Sussex University show that young people
are far more aware of the "personal brand" (attached to the given identity)
(certain brands) than the older generations. Anderson suggests that young people can
Deriving from an individual character, likes and dislikes by their branded properties.
Considering the amount of branding in the music industry, it is not unreasonable to
You say that popular musicians have their own "brand personality". So, your 50 cents
Ring tone, for example, not only one communicates your taste in the music, but also your
Compliance with the whole 'Fiddy' meme. Finally, savvy youth, says brand this
something about your personality, you hope everyone within earshot
understands.

If a cell phone rings but no one is to hear it, you are still down with 50
Cents? Ringtones are on personalization and public performance. The
Publicness of the ringtone is an integral part of attractiveness. It is unlikely that someone
would a ringtone on your landline. In a noisy urban soundscape like the city,
Silence is an anomaly. Personalized ring tones are simply another irritating sound in
the hype. Most of us manage tune out the sounds imposed on us: Muzak,.
Hawkers, traffic that so why try O' Reily factor, and impose nor a more squawk to?
The ringtone is the audio equivalent of territorial pissing; perhaps thirty seconds in
whichever you choose the soundtrack. For a few moments when your cell phone rings the
The most powerful is 50 cent memes in the sonic environment. Where is "Fiddy"
relatively redundant as a social force, specific ringtones allow citizens
show your dissatisfaction or support a cause. Independent radio station
WFMU created have a variety of anti-George W. Bush ringtones available for
Download while engadget.com enables users to select your preferred presidential elections
Candidate ringtone. Conviction of other commuters several cycles by 50 cent, the
Topic of "Star Wars" or quote Dubya demonstrates to your individual tastes and
to distinguish other you as nemesis or brothers.

In our efforts to poverty to alleviate hinder environmental disaster or cure the global
AIDs epidemic, ringtones are totally and completely useless. When it comes to the enforcement
the myth that each individual special is, artificial unique personalized
Ringtone is the right one. Paradoxically, this demonstration of individualism is only
really effective in a crowd. As far as this writer the true purpose of the concerns
Ringtones is located in the ridiculousness. A last meeting of sensible adults turned to
Joy thanks to an improvised game of "Name that tune". Using Foovely's ringtone
Preview, which gathered snippets of songs for the choice changed the
Party to guess. A song in 30 seconds is much so
harder in monophonic!

Emily Sims is the idiosyncratic Word http://www.foovely.com/ person. If you in the analysis of the ring tone culture is usually something else does. Emily is present in Melbourne, Australia. It is a beautiful city if not quite as nice as Vancouver. While you don't like his music, says Emily 50 cent aka "Fiddy" is probably rich or die trying. What a pity.

Learn, law of attraction

You can learn how to master the universal lawof attraction and have what you want and everything you need in your life. You can make your thoughts that manifesting your desires. As long as you usually think the right ideas and have you call the right emotions in yourself, your wishes all be yours.

Now, what does this for you is, that the law of attraction also prevent that with your needs if your thoughts are distorted. This means that if you have turned thoughts that you say will have when it just belongs to you or have feelings tell, you don't deserve what you want and what you fear most, you can expect a life of pain and the struggle.

Clearly, most people use the law of attraction for the latter. Several significant historical events and philosophical or religious beliefs, which leaked into the ground of our culture "Memes" to be or are extremely powerful cultural ideas that were born in us, because you manifest as our environment and our parents try in us from the time we babies are, we are a company, which has become addicted to fight. If you have to fight you are normal and healthy and noble and "responsible" as everyone should be. If you fight, are not, you are either very lucky or else you're an idiot, or lazy, stupid, or "irresponsible".

It is sad to say, not at all unusual for a specific culture, or society embroidered into the fabric to have many delusions to get taken for "the truth". Our culture has much, that is good about you, but only because we economically and technologically advanced not means that we are without many delusional memes. This increase combat the law of attraction into something that is perverse an illusion and the hartnäckigster our desires instead of brought to pass, and this happens because our thoughts are those from want and instead of creativity and lack production and wealth.

As a culture, we are proud, and rightly so, our problems to solve capabilities. But this is a double-edged sword: for now we as a society believe that if we have problems we have a problem! We are always looking for a problem to solve in the way that an untamed military always looks for an another enemy to fight, and if it is not an artificial enemy invented the military to do something. For most people when you create do not have a problem to solve, you ply - only, so you can feel "safe"!

So, how should you apply the law of attraction to your life? It is complex at first because we are complex creatures, but first you'll need to cultivate a positive attitude. This requires positive things happens to you and for you to see, and it also you feel requires, to let Ositive about your life. This last part is difficult for most people. People are pretty used to fantasize about what you want, but even to say, "Yes, but that really belongs to me" to cultivate negative feelings of sadness and despair. The "power of positive thinking" doesn't work for about 80% of those who try it, just because you feel the right way.

Nevertheless can start the law of attraction in the right way, the right things and all your needs in your life with the right thought-to bring strong, able use your nervous system and your consciousness not re program so you deserve, feeling thoughts.

But another very important component correctly with the law there of attraction: you have to understand really what you want and why you want it. You need to feel your connection to the universe and to know who you are. Many, many people draw the wrong things in your life because you want the right things in the first place! Listen very carefully to what says the universe. If you hear something let yourself hear to listen to. At the time you will be able to think the correct thoughts and wishes to trust the right things but only once brought to consciousness has been. And you know if this is as long as you first hear and speak a distant second.

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Discover the secrets of the first massive traffic to your site with social bookmarking

There are many social sites online bookmarking, must select only assign the right sites and Internet traffic and website traffic to win. Involved actively in many social bookmarking sites, would afford you to publish links to your site if you are a member. This means extra traffic.

Here are four of the most popular social bookmarking sites:

Twitter

Twitter is one 1 to social bookmarking sites and 13th in Alexa ranking. It has almost 24,000,000 visitors each month. Micro blogging is associated with, because you can book a maximum 140 words about everything under the Sun. Enterprising owner of website visitors to your sites by publishing links to a specific place in their websites.User to confirm the fact that Twitter definitely increase your website traffic, especially if you have many followers.The potential of Twitter if effective verwendet.Member therefore acquire RT (ReTweet) how many followers as you can if you over a thousand followers and half of you is and follow the links, then 500 readers knew even advertisers. Membership is also easy and free.

Digg

Digg counts 2 to social bookmarking sites.It has almost 34,000,000 visitors monatlich.Dies works much like Yahoo Buzz and Tweet Meme.Sie "Digg" the article that you enjoyed by clicking the button. The site owner about the HTML codes installed its template the Digg button, the button then appears in each post. Readers who find the post interesting would Digg by clicking on the Digg button. It generate more readers who would post more traffic ditch.

Yahoo Buzz

Yahoo buzz 2 social bookmarking sites and 28,000,000 visitors has every Monat.Es is another offer from Yahoo. Members have the opportunity to publish links to specific articles on your pages. This can be Internet traffic on your Web sites. Buzz; could also posted topics from other membersStay on top of the list above hummed topics.You can join for free and you could easily switch to Yahoo Buzz from your Yahoo mail.

Tweet meme

Power Twitter Tweet meme series 3 under social-bookmarking-Websites.Tweet meme easier by website owners and bloggers.This is very useful for website owners, because you could easily copy the HTML code of the tweet meme button and code it in their sites.This button appears then after each post, readers could post to millions of users on Twitter ReTweet (RT) can this to their supporters and comfortable tweet.It is a great viral way to get website traffic, simply by clicking on a Schaltfläche.Wenn are a Twitter user, then is easy to connect and use a Tweet meme to obtain Internet traffic.

There are various social-bookmarking sites, which increase your website traffic konnte.Das mystery is persistence and Hingabe.Melden and discover all available services in these websites and stay dabei.Internet traffic is viral if you know to maximize the use of any site.

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Facebook Marketing fun: spread the word without annoying users

When it comes to viral marketing, Twitter is very much the flavor of the month. The popular service has all the signs of promoting friendly medium - it is incredibly easy to use public, and boasts one of the largest user bases of a social media site. A single Tweet can easily in a thousand strong MEM flood the site with users and generating huge amounts of instant press swell.

But that's really what your business needs? A deluge of traffic, if not for a thin connection will most likely be interested in your promotion would not. Everyone Twitter's promotion to one or more disadvantages strong points – public actions can a brand often violated, memes can occasionally to succeeding marketing disappear lead and message as spam floods can be misinterpreted.

It is anti-reason, for this reason - if you vorziehen-thousands of marketers Facebook instead of Twitter use for your advertising campaigns. The service is less than ideal in many ways when it comes to spread a message. Some profiles are private, others are inactive, and belong to the most groups that are rarely, if ever, with more than one a row updated.

But that's not all bad. Privacy will provide greater exchange of information and a more valuable level of participation. The grouping system can with some independent operators, the exposure in the 'like' list of popular users find small business help site. In short, can Facebook's more private and network-based nature make it a bigger tool for viral growth as the 'open' rivals.

Finally, his Facebook's relatively more private nature which makes it the perfect service for optimizing and promoting your brand labeled without fear of a "spammer". Twitter's public nature made it a paradise for automation and link spam - a nuisance violated hundreds of real marketers in the process.

A level of trust that is missing otherwise comes with privacy. Design a Facebook promotion and you could your company message between updates of close friends. If that sounds not much more attractive than a mass tweet a different social marketing strategy produced, then it may be, an attempt overall value.

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The culture of the Web

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Today there exists an enormous divide between those that understand and participate in the culture of the Web and those that do not.

This chasm runs deeper than just a generation gap, and there's more to conquering it than simply being born into the Digital Age.

The Internet is a nation in and of itself, and its culture is as real and nuanced as that of any country under the sun. It's driven by information traveling instantaneously through billions of connections that function organically as a single collective, creating, defining and shaping its own distinct code of conduct, conversation, humor, protocol and even etiquette.

Why is this important?

Nowhere is this rift of understanding more apparent or consequential than in marketing.

For the casual user, it's not as important to grasp every nuance. However, if you want to do business and make an impact in this self-made, self-ruled culture, you must learn what makes it tick. You must be a part of its collective and discern the unifying elements that drive what its people, its tribes and its ruling class do, think, accept, feel, follow and react to - and why.

These governing principles aren't published in any how-to pamphlet or printed on a membership card. There are no clear signs posted along the way. To know Web culture, you must simply be a part of its collective in every way.

Living in the Internet

True mastery of the Web and its culture comes from living and breathing it day in and day out. Reading what's popular. Participating in discussion. Paying attention to reactions. Observing as the collective expands its knowledge, evolves its sense of humor, chooses what it hates and likes - all building upon a foundation of shared experience.

These are the fundamental aspects that must be second nature to anyone charged with growing your business - whether that's you or your marketing agency:

Ruled by tribes of trusted elite

A collective sense of humor

Celebrity

A language and customs of its own

An economy of attention

Gaming as a social connection

The need to belong

The trust barrier

Homebases

Addicted to sharing

Anti-corporate by default

Greater good

In the know

Freedom above all

Be one

Web time is real time

Tech-centric

Failure to not only recognize and comprehend but also to be active in Web culture will greatly increase the risk that any marketing venture you undertake will be ineffectual and ultimately unsuccessful.

Ruled by tribes of trusted elite

Early on, the Internet began to cleverly devise ways to sift through millions of pieces of information to elevate popular stuff, bury hated stuff or otherwise separate from the unremarkable.

In doing so, clearer vision began to take hold on what was worthy of attention and what wasn't, based on the collective's opinion. From this, very active users began to shape the very fabric of the Internet collective, and the organism evolved to trust those in its elite class.

These collections of loud voices that think alike and swarm together can sway nearly anything. Old Spice, Barack Obama, Victoria Secret and Conan O'Brien all know the power of the Internet ruling class. They know who have the megaphones, passion and resources in their market and they had marketing people who were part of those tribes.

Building upon the foundations of the Web's culture, your marketing entity must know how the ruling classes are formed and how they move in every circumstance in order to execute with pinpoint precision and make waves of customers.

A language and customs of its own

The language of the Web is probably one of the most easily understood and heavily evolved foundations of the collective.

'LOL's are somewhat ubiquitous, but if your marketing agency doesn't know why a ROFLcopter is funny, the essence in the difference between FAIL and WIN or what it means to be 'pwned' then, believe it or not, you lack fundamental pieces of understanding needed to take hold of the Internet and communicate with its culture in every way.

Beyond simple shorthand, there is the issue of etiquette and protocol. The Web collective has evolved its own rules for what's acceptable and what is shunned. It may seem silly, but everything from understanding what it means to encapsulate a word with asterisks to shying away from the investment of personal communication, you or your marketing company must be one with its protocols, even if you aren't marketing to people that adopt the understanding of.

Like all cultures, knowing your boundaries and assimilating yourself into its protocol is essential to go beyond baby steps. You can get by, but you'll never truly connect on a mass scale.

The need to belong

In our series on understanding and marketing to tribes, we covered the anatomy of a tribe-why people connect with each to form followings of an idea and how they collectively rule the marketplace.

The foundation of tribes is passion around something-an idea, lifestyle or movement. The truth is, the Web collective is broken up into thousands of movements stemming from one root motivation: the need to be a part of something.

This is why successful websites whose goals are centered on building a vast and passionate community around its brand or purpose institute point systems and accomplishment badges to reward participation. Understanding why people not only connect themselves to a group or community, but feel rewarded by recognition of contribution to the group is fundamental to connecting with the Web collective overall.

Auxiliary to this is the "15-minutes-of-fame" motivation. Most people are motivated by the opportunity to be featured in higher esteem for outstanding contribution. Elements such as "the most popular photo of the day" or "most video views" reward the creator or contributor by putting him or her in the spotlight.

Addicted to sharing

Members of the collective like to broadcast what they like, what they find interesting, funny, etc. This explains how great ideas go viral.

People inherently want to share things they find striking. When something great happens in the same way its users want to belong, they want to take ownership of it. That great thing becomes a part of them, because it's a part of everybody.

For example, a funny joke you get from Internet strikes you as hilarious, so you take that joke and you share it with your name on it. A piece of it is yours because you blessed it, posted it, passed it along. Your name becomes part of it. It's expressing you. Because you found it and shared it, you have partial ownership of it.

In the know

News in the Information Age is available everywhere as it happens. No longer are a select few allowed to report and distribute news. Every member of the Web culture has a cell phone, camera and a way to distribute news at the fingertips.

When events happen, information is moved through the collective, news is discussed, debated, evaluated and classified based on decisions made that organize and shape news within the Web.

As a result, almost all people connected to the Web take very little at face value. Its people are very informed. The culture's approach to news is one based on hard data and facts, wide-area access and sharing, and the inherent power to sift through the noise and elevate news of importance within its tribes of interest.

Additionally, the Web is the permanent record. It is not a culture that forgets. History is made every day and the decisions of the Web collective serve to build a foundation of information, learning and growing as time marches on.

Web time is real time

Life on the Web moves every bit as fast as the lives of the individuals that comprise its vast collective. The lines between how people behave, relate and interact online and offline are constantly growing less distinct.

The advent of social media has been a defining moment in the evolution of Web culture, as we've all become reporters in our own right. The immediacy of sharing has fed the human need for connection, fueling a never-ending stream of status updates, wall posts and tweets.

If someone discovers a favorite new sushi place, their Facebook friends likely know about it before they even leave the restaurant. Likewise, if someone has a negative experience with a customer service rep for their cable company, chances are good they'll vent about it on Twitter as soon as they hang up the phone.

While this type of information exchange may seem mundane or even meaningless, if you're the sushi place or the cable company, it won't be long before you feel its effects. As news and information passes from one circle of friends to another, it adds to and reshapes the collective conscience. As a result, the time lapse between the occurrence of an event and its entry into the greater awareness is shrinking.

You must be constantly plugged in to be able to trace trends and follow the ebb and flow of public sentiment. It's not enough to be a passive observer on the sidelines; you have to jump in and be one with the community if you want to have a clear view.

A collective sense of humor

More than 250,000 people listen to Jim Gaffigan's thoughts on Twitter. When a hilarious observation hits, 50,000 people take it, re-tweet it, re-post it and share it with their hundreds of connections, sending it through the veins of Web culture and ultimately assimilating it into its foundation to reshape opinion and unify the collective's unified sense of humor.

The Internet is just like any small group of people and its various relationships. All of its collective experiences are one big every growing foundation of inside jokes, repeating history and new creations being build upon, carried on, evolved, passed around, remixed and collectively laughed over again and again.

YouTube understood this in 2007, when for April Fools' Day the video broadcaster made a move to solidify its membership with the Internet collective, hacking its own home page and forced every click to be redirected to the ubiquitous Rick Astley video tied to the mega-meme 'Rick-rolling'.

Again, knowing why Rick Rolling is funny does nothing for you directly. It's knowing why it and other Internet memes and viral phenomena are funny to the collective that separates the successful Internet marketer from one just pretending to be one.

An economy of attention

The culture of the Web operates on an economy of attention that is based on self-fulfillment and instant gratification.

In the days when traditional media like newspapers and TV were the primary arbiters of information gathering and sharing, choice was limited, so everything was structured around creating captive audiences and force-feeding them information.

Members of the Internet collective are active seekers and searchers, not passive consumers. Knowing that they have an infinite array of options at their disposal, they pursue only what interests them most, and they quickly dismiss anything that doesn't immediately grab them as being relevant, meaningful or enjoyable. How quickly? Research has shown that it takes as little as 50 milliseconds for visitors to formulate an impression and determine their opinion of a website.

As a result, your greatest competitor in the culture of the Web is time. The challenge that you must meet is not only to capture attention but to provide direct meaning and value upfront in order to prove why you're a place to come back to.

The trust barrier

The Web collective is inherently untrusting. The Internet itself is a nation without laws, and there is always some degree of transparency lacking that cannot be entirely satisfied.

Therefore, it is incumbent upon the collective to sift through its own content and distill the legitimate from the illegitimate. Its members approach this task with a wary eye, looking for reasons not to trust. Anywhere they land, they are on alert for red flags - anything from bad design and fake photos to incorrect information and over-the-top testimonials - that indicate a site unworthy of further time and attention.

Authority is issued from within the collective by way of opinion. Comments, reviews and popularity form the basis for trust, and its people feed off the assessments of other like-minded individuals.

Peer validation is the hallmark of Web culture. No matter what you do or what you sell, if enough people love it and vouch for you within their own circles of influence, you'll be successful. Without this, you face a significant burden of proof to overcome the natural skepticism of the collective.

Anti-corporate by default

While Web culture is instinctively mistrustful, it reserves a special degree of cynicism for all things corporate. The reasons why abound, but they are in no small part the product of decades of traditional, carpet-bombing marketing and its battery of empty promises, hollow gimmicks and self-serving promotion.

The fabric of the Web collective is comprised of personal connections. Corporate entities are regarded as intrinsically impersonal and therefore existing outside of this culture. In fact, this anti-corporate stance is a point of pride and a rallying cry, creating an environment that is quick to identify and ridicule those companies that don't understand the culture and its mores. The only ones allowed in are those that earn their way legitimately by building trust through the demonstration of listening and responding to the needs of the collective.

In short, all things being equal, as a corporate entity, you start below zero. Attempting to market to the collective as an outsider that is disengaged from its culture is downright offensive and will result in your brand being at best ignored and at worse severely penalized. This is why trustcasting is essential. The only successful approach to getting and keeping customers in Web culture is through an ongoing commitment to building and maintaining trust - a highly personal approach to business growth that requires developing authentic, two-way relationships within the collective and engaging them with honesty and respect.

Freedom above all

The spirit of the Web is freedom: freedom of access, freedom of choice and freedom of distribution.

The openness of the Web is the very reason for its existence. As such, the flag flown by the Internet nation is one of self-protection from that which poses a threat to the unrestricted flow of information upon which the Web was founded. Its people promote elements that provide more access and suppress those that oppose it.

The stark contrast in the performance of the business models behind the New York Times and Facebook is one of the best examples of this.

The New York Times, a longstanding bastion of news once regarded within the industry as the nation's "newspaper of record," has waffled on its choice of how to deliver information while keeping its traditional revenue model intact, leaning towards a subscriber-based system that restricts access without purchase. While this protects the profitability of the New York Times to some degree, it limits its distribution versus other news sources. Whether this works for the publication or not is really beside the point. The culture of the Web outright shuns the paper's outmoded approach, openly criticizing it and its decision-makers' policies.

Facebook hit on success quickly, growing into a billion-dollar company practically overnight. Its model was non-restrictive, allowing unintrusive ads to be run alongside the application rather than garnering revenue through paid access. It is easily embraced by the culture because it is open, provides incredible utility that betters the life of its users and listens and responds to the demands of the collective.

Tech-centric

As the Web itself represents the broadest and most powerful form of technology itself, its people and culture are inherently centered around technology.

Its collective is not only tech-aware, but tech savvy. They want to improve their lives with technology. They want to do more with less.

In their quest to find better information faster and from everywhere, the people that make up the culture of the Web are built on a high-level of understanding for software, hardware and data. The culture is constantly looking for new ideas, concepts and technology that allows the Web to be used in a more useful and efficient manner.

As a result, the Web propagates technology through itself. Its members and ruling class have new technology on high receive and are connoisseurs for new ideas, passing them through the conversation, adapting them to their lives and spreading the word on how it affects their lives.

Celebrity

In the same way the cult of personality has shaped our culture since the advent of television, the Internet collective and its ruling classes proudly evolve its own methods of reaction and shaping celebrity influence.

No one person created the book on Chuck Norris jokes, each an ongoing, comical demonstration of how Mr. Norris' super-human presence is supreme in every facet. The Internet collective invented, cultivated and spread this ongoing joke with his celebrity. Google itself even jumps on the bandwagon.

Is this knowledge, by itself, helpful in marketing? No. However, understanding how the Web culture shapes and is shaped by celebrity is the mark of a great Internet marketer.

Knowing what is played out and what will ring with millions is the mark of one that is in touch with Web culture. The Old Spice shower spokesman's demeanor, speech and jokes are not, in and of themselves, remarkable. It's knowing the complete package and why it will connect and spread in a way no traditional advertising on any medium could have ever done.

Gaming as a social connection

The Web is one-half work and one-half pleasure. In fact, it could be argued that electronic gaming served as the genesis of the Web collective as we know it today.

Electronic gaming is a core part of Web culture, and the industry commands far more influence than Hollywood. With the evolution of social gaming such as Zynga's FarmVille and Mafia Wars, every new game published forms its own groups and followings, bringing people together and allowing them opportunities to share their experiences.

Within the collective, language, protocol and humor are just a few of the many facets that continue to be shaped by the massive online gaming community. In the same way celebrities, movies and TV shows have shaped our culture for decades, gaming is not only a fundamental piece of the Internet but a defining touchstone of Web culture.

Homebases

In the Internet universe, people proudly set up shop in various places. Knowing why certain subsets of the collective bind themselves to certain homebases is yet another key to understanding Web culture.

Facebook is ubiquitous. There is hardly a soul that's not connected to it. However, if Facebook fulfilled everything, Flickr, Tumblr, Twitter, forums and hundreds of thousands of other sites wouldn't exist.

As an example, photos posted on Facebook are usually for the personal enjoyment of family and friends. Photos posted on Flickr are more prone to be critiqued and elevated based on the critical eye of other photographers. What you think is a good photo in your album on Facebook may not stand out on Flickr or anywhere else.

Knowing the difference between these homebases, the nuances that distinguish one community from another and why people plant their flag in one place and not others is critical when reaching out and building a community of your own.

Greater good

The Web is like any other nation. It is crafted by people for people. It not only represents a collective consciousness but a collective with a conscience. Its members recognize problems and flock to help those in need. Like any other good democracy, its people not only look to better their own lives but also the lives of others.

The power of the Web to shine a spotlight on the ills of society and instantly raise awareness among millions of the problems in the world is a phenomenon never before seen in human history. Because knowledge and freedom reign supreme on the Web, the pen continues to be the mightier than the sword, as access to and distribution of information on a mass scale lead to action that moves mountains.

Inherent in every member of the Web's culture is an activist - someone ready and willing to take up a flag for a cause they believe in. Armed with the understanding of the power of one person and one idea to change the world, members of Web culture hunger for the opportunity to rally others and attack problems head-on.

Be one

The Web collective represents the most vast and most complex social system on the planet. Its parts are many, diverse and constantly in motion. It is ever-growing and ever-evolving. Everyone is a part of it, and it touches every facet of their lives - they play in it, work in it, do business in it and are entertained by it.

The points we've covered do not map an instructive path nor provide magic beans of knowledge that unlock the secret to winning customers on the Web. While each might seem unimportant or even trivial in and of itself, you can't begin to comprehend the collective and what makes it tick without this greater perspective.

If you are looking to grow your business or set your next idea on fire, you or your marketing firm must be one with this culture and all of its defining characteristics. You must speak its language, appreciate its sense of humor and know why certain things spread virally while others get buried immediately. In today's marketplace, it is this fundamental understanding that sets the successful Internet marketer apart from one that merely takes a shot in the dark and hopes for the best.

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