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NMDL Klout Competition Details

Alright - here are the rules:

You have 'till end of day Sunday (11/11/2012) to submit your entry for the Klout Competition (winners get a private tour/lunch at Google, chance to meet top recruiter and some Google schwag).

Two students (active NMDL students) with :

a) The highest overall Klout Score as of Nov 11th, 2012, or

b) The highest increase of your Klout Score between beginning of the class and Nov 11, 2012

Derek Mehraban

Alfred Hitchcock Meets Lady Gaga on Instagram

Instagram is sweeping the nation. It even seems more popular for young up and comers than
Twitter. Everyone seems to have an Instragram.

Artists like Lady Gaga have their instragam photos online at Web.stagram for easy viewing and sharing. Gaga rocks. Click her photo to see what I'm talking about. Do you have a Web.stagram?

Graham Davis

Social media and the 2012 elections

Two weeks from today, voters across the country will go to the polls to cast their ballots for president (along with a host of other candidates and ballot issues). No other election has seen such heavy use of social media for candidates and campaigns to communicate with voters - for good reason.

Social media has become an essential tool for any modern political campaign, because voters use social media to both learn about candidates and causes and to recruit friends to join campaigns or learn more about issues.

Instructor

Google stock down 9%!!!!

Google just released its Q3 earnings and the stock price is down 9%.

Find an article online talking about these results, and let us know what you think...

Does it matter?

Is Google in trouble?

Why is the stock down so much according to analysts? Is that good or bad in your opinion?

Instructor

Local SEO Link Building

Local search is an increasingly important component of search engine optimization. Building links that help your local search is a smart tactic, and something that will help if you want to be found in your town, city, or region.

I just read a post from our friends at SEOMoz that talks about acquiring links from local search. We do many of these techniques, but it's good to see someone write it up in this manner.