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Gay Singles Group.com

What works?  Across the board, there was agreement that three things bring business in… social media, face-to-face marketing, and word-of-mouth.

It was a great success.”

Donald Wilson, Institute for Justice

It was my pleasure today to report to one of our Cleveland clients that the site we launched for her has taken two of the top three Page One spots when searching the worldwide web using generic and common keywords for her business.  Two of the top three… out of 71 million organic search results.  I admit I was a bit surprised and posted here today after verifying Google’s rankings first.

As an ex-summer farmhand, I know the fruits of one’s labor don’t come overnight.  So it is with achieving top search engine results.  For nearly a year, I’ve worked the combination of social media, SEO and coaching our client as if they were soil, sun and water.  In my world of social marketing communications they are.

Indeed, spring has arrived here in Ohio for my client and me.

Here we are in 2012, and I’m not sure if the definitive definition is yet known. Would it be a journalist who freelances and has a LinkedIn profile or a Facebook page?  Hmm.  The phrase of course is coined but the concept seems, well… still a little bit fuzzy.  At least to me.

How would YOU “define” Entrepreneurial Journalist?

I’m working on a website that in its first development-stage asks you to answer or make your best guess at that question.  And your answer doesn’t have to be dictionary-sounding, heck it can be humorous if that’s what you have, or both.  We’ll share your best answers when Entrepreneurial Journalist dotcom launches this year. If you’d like a public attribution or “by line” on the new website, make sure to include your name along with your definition, after you click on the link box below.  Happy defining!

EntrepreneurialJournalist.com

Valentine’s Day Tweets

-  Social media advertising for a university.
-  Website for a statewide professional journalism competition.
-  Online registration system for an annual healthcare conference.

Looking forward to a busy February… with an extra day due to this Intercalary Year!

One year ago, we posted “The Tweets Must Flow,” in which we said,

“The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact … almost every country in the world agrees that freedom of expression is a human right. Many countries also agree that freedom of expression carries with it responsibilities and has limits.”

As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content.

Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally. Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.

We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld. As part of that transparency, we’ve expanded our partnership with Chilling Effects to share this new page, http://chillingeffects.org/twitter, which makes it easier to find notices related to Twitter.

One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user’s voice. We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can’t. The Tweets must continue to flow.

Google crossed a similar bridge not long ago when it censored, then uncensored, then eventually compromised search results for its Chinese users because of that government’s pressure to help it censor online content.  It’s too early to say if Twitter’s new ability and policy to censor certain kinds of content will be used, abused, practical, impractical, or eventually modified.  Twitter users will help the social medium decide, if they keep the tweets flowing on the topic.

Mary Dellorso, President, Northeast Ohio Nurse Practitioners

• Tomorrow, our Social Media Consultant Stephen FitzGerald will make a presentation to the Northeast Ohio Nurse Practitioners about social media, nursing and healthcare, entitled “Intro to Social Media: Vital Signs?”