Hello from Atlanta!

I flew up here last night to visit my two best friends for the weekend – a nice little girls weekend and to take a much needed break for a day or two! Hopefully the weather for the weekend cooperates with our plans!

Anyway, let’s get to it! Hope your week has been as productive as mine – below are this week’s alerts… but first…

Your Next ipad could be an iMac – YES!

Also, I wanted to share this with video with you. It’s a project we’ve been working on, and no doubt you’ll be hearing about it not only from us, but many of the top marketers in the next few weeks. Here’s the trailer for “Jacob’s Turn.” Please watch and share!

www.jacobsturn.com/dev/preview

I hope you enjoy and have a great weekend!

Until next time,
Lindsay

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Lindsay’s SEO and SMM Alerts – 8/27 Addition

Mashable’s 26 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

• The Future of Public Relations and Social Media

23 Awesome SEO Blogs Everyone Should Read
OK- so maybe not “everyone” … maybe just the “geeks” (or Chic Geek as I like to say) like me. HOWEVER, in a meeting with a potential client this week I got asked how I stay up-to-date with what’s going on “in the industry.” My answer: wonderful friends “in the business” and A LOT of reading and research. This list definitely is a great place to start if you’re looking for more info and want to stay up-to-date with industry news.

Study: Social media Affects SMB Purchasing Decisions
“Many people still think that the heaviest users of social media skew young. Myth. In fact, according to a recent analysis completed by Pingdom, the average social media user is 35-44 years old. It turns out that this demographic of decision makers is online looking for information about products and services giving B2B tech marketers a compelling reason to pursue online word of mouth as a key component of their go to market strategy.”

9 Ways to Sell Social Media to the Boss
“Conversations are happening online with or without you. This is one of the most frequently used social media sayings. If you’re engaging with social media for your company, it’s almost second nature. However, there are still many who are struggling to ‘sell’ social media to their executives.” If you’re one of these people that haven’t been convinced to jump on board and why it’s important- take a look at this article from Social Media Examiner!

7 Facebook Marketing Tips from the World’s Pros
At our GKIC monthly meeting (which we had this week) Facebook was brought up and how to correctly leverage the relationships you make on Facebook (and Twitter). By now, most understand that they need social media and it’s here to stay- but there is still some question in the “how” of it all. This article gives 7 great tips on how to use Facebook to it’s best use.

The New Digg is Live: What it Means for Digg and For You
Digg is certainly trying to take cues from Facebook and Twitter. Although I find their new redesign to be cleaner and more user-friendly, I don’t think they’ll ever rival the other big Social Media monsters in the industry. BUT, book marking sites like Digg are still important in your content marketing strategy.

Google Brings Voice Calling to Gmail
This new service allows you to “receive phone calls in your Gmail account with your Google Voice number. You can switch between your cell phone and Gmail, which is useful if you have bad cell coverage or a bad Internet connections.” Phone calls in the US are free.

Location Faceoff: Facebook Places vs. Foursquare
Last week Facebook rolled out their version of Foursquare, “Facebook Places.” And if you’re like me, that meant the death of anything Foursquare as it was just one more place to login and look at. I think Facebook hit a home run with this one… and Facebook certainly has a sense of humor- if you look at the icon for Facebook Places you will notice that it is a “4″ inside a square.

Facebook Chat to Drop IE6 Support
Oh- IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) … hopefully by Facebook dropping you so will the rest of the world!