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If you are not using FriendFeed you are missing out on a great tool that helps you add disparate accounts across blogs and social networking services such as Twitter, StumbleUpon, YouTube, and many more. Friendfeed aggregates them so friends can follow what you’re doing in one place, think of it as a one stop shop for all your social networking updates and news items. The company was founded by ex-Googlers, and using it is easy.

Here is what Crunchbase.com is saying about what FriendFeed is:

“FriendFeed is a service which, instead of layering a meta-network on top of all your other social networks, will create a news feed incorporating them all much like the facebook news feed. It’s an idea that isn’t too difficult or bothersome for social network users to adopt.

Users tell the feed which networks they belong to (Facebook, Digg, Last.fm etc) and FriendFeed personalizes your data feed with info from each of the sites.

Other companies, such as Spokeo, ProfileLinker, MyLifeBrand and the more recent Fuser, are trying to help you organize your online social identity as well, all in different ways.”

So I joined FriendFeed a while back and have found that it is another great tool that helps me keep up on what all my social friends are doing online one of those being Dave Harry of Huomah.com. Not only do I love to follow everything that Dave is talking about online (because it is usually entertaining and intellectual) but what I really wanted to let everyone know about was the public rooms he has created on FriendFeed:

• the SEM Room
• the Learn SEO Room
• the SphinnZone Room

Here are some other people that I follow on FriendFeed and really I try and follow them everywhere:

Ann Smarty
David Wallace
Kristen Munson - Social Media Mom
Danny Sullivan
Shana Albert - theNanny
Jason Calacanis
SpostareDuro - Kimberly Bock
Bill Slawski

So if you haven’t heard our dear friend Dave Harry aka TheGypsy of Huomah.com has broke his arm. With this terrible news his blog posts go on with the help of Steven Bradley aka VanGogh & David Snyder!

Just wanted to give everyone a quick look at Steven Bradley’s guest post about Social Media Marketing called “The Indirect Value of Social Media Marketing” here were some of the questions about Social Media Marketing that have been asked due to a couple posts by TheGypsy:

1. How to plan a program ( with a real-world example)
2. How to time manage said program
3. How to measure and manage costs
4. How to measure it (KPI)
5. How to determine ROI (return on investment)

Steven continues the discussion focusing on these questions above. He writes, “Focusing on your ROI efficiency and your rate of benefit is a better approach to me and a better way to understand the value social media delivers. To me it’s more that each social interaction potentially leads to your next opportunity. It’s not always possible though, to know where that next opportunity will appear and which or how many of your interactions led to it.”

Read more at his guest post at TheGypsy’s SEO Blog.

So here it is the SEO Baby Contest. My wife is pregnant with our first child and I am so excited to be a dad. As of now we do not know the sex of the baby so I am simply calling it The SEO Baby. I have decided that I would like to have a little fun and put a contest together letting anyone and everyone guess the following items: SEX of the baby, Weight, and the day that the baby will be born. Best of all the winner of the contest will win the following:

• Free iPod Nano (value: $149)
• Dave Harry’s “The SEO Handbook” (value: priceless)
• Free membership to LearnSEOLive.com (value: $37)
• One month banner ad at Kimberly Bock’s LearningSEOBasics.com (value: priceless)
• One month banner ad at YourSEOMentor.com (value: $50)
• Bill Slawski of SEObytheSea.com is giving away two books: Don’t Make Me Think, from Steve Krug, and Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, from Avinash Kaushik
• If others would like to donate an item to the contest simply contact me.

So now that you know what you will win for being part of the contest simply fill out the form here and enter your guesses. (Hints: The due date is May 22, the last ultrasound the baby was 5.5lbs)

Again to be a part of the contest you will need to fill out the form at Yourseomentor.com/seo-baby-contest

Note: you have until 8pm EST on Wednesday May 22, 2008 to fill out the form and enter the contest. The winner will be announced on Sunday June 1, 2008 (if the baby is still not born I will announce the winner as soon as it is)

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Thanks everyone for participating.