This is a fascinating video from TED by Clay Shirky on the largest increase in expressive capability in human history – the social web. It’s about 17 minutes long and worth the view.

Favorite quotes by Clay Shirky from the video:

“What matters is not technical capital, it’s social capital.”

“Tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.  It isn’t when the shiny new tools show up that their uses start permeating society.  It’s when everybody is able to take them for granted.”

“The moment our historical generation is living through is the single largest increase in expressive capability in human history.”

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Perception is everything.  At first glance the following ad had an entirely different meaning to me.

Then I saw the space between the words “Love” and “Making”.  Ohhhh!!!

Completely different ad don’t you agree? 

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I was on Facebook and saw this ad on the sidebar.

I ‘especialy’ thought the line ‘represent your business profesionaly ‘ was a nice touch.

I could say so many things about this ad, but I better not.  Grandma might be reading.

I’ll just let you make your own conclusions…

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On her Social Marketing blog, Michelle Macphearson posted a video of the results of a script that shows which social media sites appear the most often in Google’s front page search engine results.

Knowing this, you can then spend your social marketing time placing content and links to your website only on those sites which have been proven to rank highly over time and which are more likely to generate traffic and link juice back to your site.

I recommend you watch the video here first so you can understand how to place links and content on each particular site.

Here’s the list:

1. Wikipedia.org
2. Youtube.com
3. About.com
4. Blogspot.com
5. WordPress.com
6. Ezinearticles.com
7. Myspace.com
8. BestSoftware4Download.com
9. Craigslist.com
10. Squidoo.com
11. eHow.com
12. Propeller.com
13. BestVistaDownloads.com
14. Typepad.com
15. Flickr.com
16. Metacafe.com
17. Revver.com
18. Suite101.com
19. Hubpages.com
20. Technorati.com
21. Digg.com

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