Mergers and acquisitions happen every day in every industry and rarely (ok, pretty much never) do I feel compelled to write about them. So what makes this one different? If you have ever attended a conference on search and/or social marketing, whether that is SMX, SES or PubCon, you’ve most likely seen the prime suspects strutting their stuff on stage. These are people to know in the search/social industry, and now they are joining forces to bring their collective knowledge together under one virtual roof. Chris Winfield of 10e20, Brent Csutoras of Brent Csutoras Inc, and the team from Search and Social have come together to create BlueGlass Interactive, an agency offering everything from Social Media and PR to Pay Per Click and SEO (much like another agency you may have heard of…ahem…Location3).
~TarlaYesterday Facebook announced their auto-suggest feature to the search box, enabling users to find and connect faster. As with Google, Yahoo and Bing it will auto-suggest as you type a query into the search box. In honor of St Patricks Day yesterday below is a screenshot of this new feature.
~SammieAnnieI bet you had no idea that the force behind Google’s rapid searching and indexing was a hopped up Librarian frantically leafing through books and journals. We didn’t either, until we found this neat site by Weetabix Foods. Find out what’s Inside Your Search.
~Angie
As a self-proclaimed word nerd, I’m always looking for ways to incorporate grammar and language use into my posts on expertSEM. To do this, I usually have to stretch and morph the interactive marketing topic to fit my semantic agenda. But I’m happy to report that this week’s topic relates to both social media and words. The big news: unfriend was selected by the New Oxford American Dictionary as the Word of the Year.
~Angie