September 11th, 2001 – Twelve Years Later ▓▌▄▒║ ▓║ ║▌

Twelve years ago today our country was attacked, crumbling NYC's World Trade Center. Twelve years later the WTC rises from dead.
I turned this controversial photo upside-down a few years ago to celebrate the 10th year and now 12 years of resilience, and serve as a symbol of rising peace. Now with flagship 1 WTC standing at the symbolic height of 1776, once again, beautifying NYC's skyline, this photo also serves a symbol of our rising towers.
Photo below, "The Falling Man," by Richard Drew; renamed
"Flipped Falling Man" by Gloria Buono-Daly.

two haikus

▐║ 911 ten
▐║ years later falling man is
▐║ still provocative

▓▌▄▒║ ▓║ ║▌

▐║ pin-straight
Falling Man

▐║ endless time still shows
the world

▐║ our
land, brave and free


by
Gloria
Buono-Daly       (c) 2011


Emotionally charged, mixed feelings - 2001 to 2013. From Poet Laureate, Billy Collins' prose commemorating all of the 9/11 victims, "The Names," posted below, to one of the most provocative, unforgettable images by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, of a man falling from the twin towers, positioned perfectly in the middle. The photo was taken at about 9:41 am on 9/11/01 -- 15 minutes before the 1st building, the South tower, collapsed. Videos would show that the falling man was actually a tumbling man in the air and this is one moment in his time that was captured.

Note how perfectly straight, positioned in the middle and parallel to the burning towers the falling man is. The above photo was branded distasteful and voyeuristic -- never to be shown again, yet the incredible "falling man" is still around.

There is much up side and only 12 years later. By the 11th anniversary (2012) the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center, was back up in lower Manhattan's skyline.

WTC overview photo above by Joe Woolhead, Silverstein Properties

Budgeted at 3.9 billion upon completion, flagship, One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is expected to open sometime in 2014. At 104 stories (1368 feet high), the decorative architectural spire atop makes the building stand at the symbolic height of 1,776 feet. Observation decks will adorn the 100th, 101st and 102nd floors. Tenants so far include magazine publisher Conde Nast and the federal government's General Services Administration. Visit time lapse of 1 WTC video animation of rebuilding 1 WTC.

Rendering of 1 WTC photo left courtesy of Wikimedia.

At 72 stories (977ft high) Four World Trade Center, will be the first office building to open, scheduled next month (October 2013). First tenants will be Port Authority, the bistate agency that owns the trade center site and lost its headquarters when the twin towers were attacked. According to many articles and documentaries, there were about 200 people who jumped to their deaths, some were able to be identified only for the victim’s families and to provide closure for them. But there was no time to recover or identify those who were forced to jump prior to the collapse of the towers. We lost almost 3,000 lives that day.

Where were you on 9/11/2001?
I was working on Wall Street( on the corner of Wall and Water Streets). It was a beautiful, clear skied morning. I arrived early as I usually do and was at my desk on the computer when I heard a loud bang and felt rumbling underneath my desk at 8:46 a.m. I shouted "What was that?" Then 15 minutes later another bang, as some fellow employees arrived - initially we thought it was from a missile. Hard to imagine it would be the biggest single attack on American lives. I still keep asking myself "how could this be?" I was curious and ran outside to see what was happening.

As I was walking on Water St. and reached Liberty St., it was at about 10:00 am, I saw large billows of gray smoke, appearing to turn day to night, enveloping hundreds if not thousands of people running for their lives – apparently heading towards the river. I asked some folks what is happening and all were in shock. With all the commotion, all they could say while they were running was “it’s down, it’s down.” At that moment, I thought another plane came down. I ran back to the office and learned from colleagues that the South tower collapsed (incidentally, this was the 2nd building hit). The North tower (1st building hit) collapsed at about 30 minutes later. And the world would never be the same.


"The Names" poem by Billy Collins posted below:
Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night.
A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze,
And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows,
I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened,
Then Baxter and Calabro,
Davis and Eberling, names falling into place
As droplets fell through the dark.
Names printed on the ceiling of the night.
Names slipping around a watery bend.
Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream.
In the morning, I walked out barefoot
Among thousands of flowers
Heavy with dew like the eyes of tears,
And each had a name --
Fiori inscribed on a yellow petal
Then Gonzalez and Han, Ishikawa and Jenkins.
Names written in the air
And stitched into the cloth of the day.
A name under a photograph taped to a mailbox.
Monogram on a torn shirt,
I see you spelled out on storefront windows
And on the bright unfurled awnings of this city.
I say the syllables as I turn a corner --
Kelly and Lee,
Medina, Nardella, and O'Connor.
When I peer into the woods,
I see a thick tangle where letters are hidden
As in a puzzle concocted for children.
Parker and Quigley in the twigs of an ash,
Rizzo, Schubert, Torres, and Upton,
Secrets in the boughs of an ancient maple.
Names written in the pale sky.
Names rising in the updraft amid buildings.
Names silent in stone
Or cried out behind a door.
Names blown over the earth and out to sea.
In the evening -- weakening light, the last swallows.
A boy on a lake lifts his oars.
A woman by a window puts a match to a candle,
And the names are outlined on the rose clouds --
Vanacore and Wallace,
(let X stand, if it can, for the ones unfound)
Then Young and Ziminsky, the final jolt of Z.
Names etched on the head of a pin.
One name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel.
A blue name needled into the skin.
Names of citizens, workers, mothers and fathers,
The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son.
Alphabet of names in a green field.
Names in the small tracks of birds.
Names lifted from a hat
Or balanced on the tip of the tongue.
Names wheeled into the dim warehouse of memory.
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart

Additional information at the following links:

║See CBS video, “The Passionate Eye,” http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyemonday/video_player.html?fallingman&playerType=wmp

║Video “911 The Falling Man”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EFvGuIXIJc&feature=related Images of bodies hanging out of windows, holding on across the steel across windows, leaning out for air.

║Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/ten-years-later.html


My two 911 haikus:
║ 911 ten ═ years later falling man is ═ still provocative

║ pin-straight Falling Man ═ endless time still shows the world ═ our land, brave and free

Search engine stats for the term 911 on Sept. 11, 2011 (will be updated later for 2013)
Match type    Broad         Exact
Google   981,000,000     431,000,000
Yahoo     246,000,000     240,000,000
Bing       245,000,000     242,000,000 World Trade Center Status Detailed By Developers 11 Years After September 11th Attacks, The Associsated Press, September 10, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/world-trade-center-status-11-years-later_n_1870115.html

RESOURCES & THINGS TO DO IN MEMORY OF 911 IN ADDITION TO VISITING THE 911 MEMORIAL
▓▌▄▒║ ▓║ ║▌ Soothe your soul by listening to music in memory of 911 like Unhappy Birthday, by The Bacon Brothers, Originally from the album "White Knuckles" reworked for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 with updated lyrics, written by Michael and Kevin Bacon, Directed by Bill Keller
▓▌▄▒║ ▓║ ║▌ visit the NYC FireStore on Greenwich Street, NYC
▓▌▄▒║ ▓║ ║▌ World Trade Center Status Detailed By Developers 11 Years After September 11th Attacks , by the Associated Press, September 10, 2012
▓▌▄▒║ ▓║ ║▌ World Trade Center Timeline, by WTC organization

▓▌▄▒║ ▓║ ║▌ Downtown Manhattan Future Skyline animation, by Silverstein Properties


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Tips for SEO blogging and the importance of incorporating a mobile-friendly SEO strategy: 'Evergreen marketing insighter' ▲▲▲ by Gloria Buono-Daly

All too often blogging for search engine optimization (also known as SEO) gets put to the bottom of the marketer’s priority list because it can be very tedious and difficult to measure results.


A little less than a year ago (September 25, 2012) I posted this article and wanted to post an updated version a bit earlier for the sake of planning (September is crucial and when not only budgets but SEO planning and development for the following year are due). Updates from last year have been incorporated in the respective section below. Many revisions mostly pertain to the latest in mobile strategy.

Photo right, Blog Button with Definition of Blog



Photo credits: photographed by Stuart Miles, courtesy FreeDigitalPhotos







Don’t let SEO slip away again come this January 2014. September/October is an excellent time to not only finalize on your budgets and campaign programs for the upcoming 1 - 2 years but to also fine-tune your SEO programs and synchronize them to your future projects and campaigns including mobile strategy.

Very important to note that SEO strategies for mobile are not the same as pc (laptop + desktop).

Especially with “Googlebot-Mobile,” an algorithm produced by Google in February 2012, which was designed to provide smartphone users with a geo-targeted user search by interfacing with a mobile’s GPS.

Many marketing professionals are unaware of the latest strategies for SEO mobile concepts. For example, did you know that RWD (responsive web design) is the best way to for creating web content and SEO? The user experience (UX) across all different platforms (e.g., desktop, mobile, tablet, etc.) are improved simultaneously because the RWD designed website eliminates the need to have a separate site optimized for mobile versions. All web content and display versions -- desktop, tablet, mobile, etc.,-- are creatively aligned consistently with the respective website. Conveniently, you only revise the content once and don't have to create separate sites for the other devices. The main concern with RWD is the length of time and expense to rebuild a main site; RWD is faster and less expensive when building a new web site from scratch. More information about the pros and cons of RWD is at The Moz Blog titled "The SEO's Guide to Building a Great Mobile Site" by Kristina Kledzik.

Marketers still confuse "blogging for SEO" with traditional blogging; However it is entirely different.

An important factor for a Web site’s success is generating organic Web traffic (search results), and blogging for SEO is a great social media program to incorporate into your company’s integrated marketing program.

Search engines (e.g., Google, Yahoo, etc.) will pull up a site more frequently when links and content are added or updated frequently.

This holds especially true for blogs. Keeping in mind the importance of incorporating a mobile-friendly strategy, which will require the use of different algorithm, keyword, and search behavior for mobile (besides pc) and the use of responsive web design, below are helpful tips to get your blogs to the optimal, SEO level (pc and mobile):

• Be interesting, relevant and concise. Storytelling comes in all sizes, shapes and fashions. Forget the “fancy-schmancy” words to prove your Columbia School of Journalism credentials. While longer blogs are acceptable, writing a shorter blog (from 150 to 300 words) almost always guarantees your blog will be entirely read.

• For blogs that are on direct Web site (i.e., not on Google Blogger or WordPress) make sure the content links to external Web sites as well as the blogger’s URL. Link building is crucial for an effective blog post since search engines are more likely to index a site loaded with links to external sites than to a site with multiple links directed to one Web site.

• Be mindful that if a blog is on WordPress or Google Blogger, multiple, relevant links should be included on the respective Web URL.

• Remember that rules are made to be broken. If there is something interesting to write about but it’s not exactly relevant to your/or your client’s blog, go ahead and blog. Although many experts would say to target a respective industry only, it is actually effective to digress once in a while with interesting content. It’s more important to keep on blogging than to not write from writer’s block.

• For more information regarding mobile-friendly SEO, visit Sonny Sharp's "SEO mobilized: How strategies differ on mobile and desktop search."

• According to an seomoz blog post, “21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic,” by randfish “It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic.” This applies for both traditional and blogging for SEO.

• Here is a great "SEO Cheat Sheet: Anatomy of a URL" you may find handy

Does your marketing program include blogging for SEO and do you incorporate a mobile-friendly strategy?

Do you have any questions or any SEO blogging tip to share?

Here’s a quote to help put blogging into perspective:

“A blog is only as interesting as the interest shown in others.”
~~ Lee Odden, Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, and Content Marketing."

Tips for SEO blogging and the importance of incorporating a mobile-friendly SEO strategy is part of the evergreen marketing insighter ▲▲▲ series by Gloria Buono-Daly

This article has been slightly updated from the earlier post on the AllThingsDigitalMarketing.com blog on September 25, 2012 and Examiner.com on September 17, 2012 titled "Helpful tips for blogging for search engine optimization”

Happy 131st Labor Day America

“Labor day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China.”
~~ David Letterman, American television host and comedian; Host of CBS Late Show with David Letterman, recently surpassing Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the USA, on the irony of Labor Day
Letterman photo above courtesy of Wikimedia.org

Today is Labor Day. Happy 131st Labor Day America. Let’s admit it, this holiday does appear ironic:

Imagine American’s celebrating workers, particularly in light of our country’s high unemployment rates which are a lot higher than our government reports.

Stats and economy aside, all across America, this holiday which was once symbolic for back to school, the end of the summer and the archaic fashion trend – where wearing white after Labor Day is a fashion faux pas – have all been passé for years. Fashion trends rarely pay attention to this rule; Also back to school shopping is now done during the end of July and month of August.

Labor Day photo left courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos

According to StyleCaster.com, winter whites will have mass appeal for Fall 2013, Fall 2013 Fashion Forecast: 12 Trends To Know Now

Labor Day also marks the beginning of bargain shopping and also when sports excitement begins as the NFL and college football seasons begin.
NFL photo left courtesy of Wikimedia.org


For the many attentive parents and their children, it's the end of summer reading programs and making sure all of their children's book reports and other assignments are in order.

In a world of digital, it is also a great idea to use the internet for exciting news and interesting ideas. SchoolsNYC.org, SummerReading.org, and Scholastic.com are very helpful sites.

So much happens over the summer and discussing a few books (or just 1)that your child has read, (a simple question will do) is a great refresher and memory exercise. This also best prepares your child for the first day of school.

What about vacation? Talk about a great memory or event during summer family visits and travels.
Back to School photo above courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.


HISTORY

One hundred and thirty one years ago (1882), Matthew Maguire, a machinist, first proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the CLU (Central Labor Union) of New York. Others argue that it was first proposed by Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor in May 1882, after witnessing the annual labour festival held in Toronto, Canada. Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on February 21, 1887. By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, thirty states officially celebrated Labor Day.

In the United States, Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of their country.

In many countries, the working classes sought to make May Day an official holiday, and their efforts largely succeeded. In the United States and Canada, however, the official holiday for workers is Labor Day in September. This day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first parade in New York City.

After the Haymarket Massacre, US President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Thus, in 1887, it was established as an official holiday in September to support the Labor Day that the Knights favored.

Labor Day weekend: what to do.

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RESOURCES
▐■  Labor Day weekend: what to do, myfoxny.com http://www.myfoxny.com/story/23305422/labor-day-weekend-what-to-do
▐■  In Praise of the American Worker, Life Magazine http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/48141/in-praise-of-the-american-worker
▐■  The History of Labor Day, United States Department of Labor http://www.dol.gov/laborday/history.htm
▐■  History of Labor Day, Knights of Labor, http://web.archive.org/web/20070930082656/http://progressivehistorians.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2041
▐■  Labor Day, Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
▐■  Wear White Immediately -- We'll Show You How (PHOTOS), Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/wear-winter-white-photos_n_2789912.html
▐■  You Can’t Wear White After Labor Day? These 7 Fashion-Tech Founders Say Otherwise, Fueled.com http://fueled.com/blog/you-cant-wear-white-after-labor-day-these-7-fashion-tech-founders-say-otherwise/


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HAPPY 42nd B-DAY WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY!

HAPPY WE-DAY to you!

On August 26, 2013, The League of Women Voters celebrates the forty-second birthday of "Women's Equality Day."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
~~ Alice Walker, American poet, self-claimed womanist, activist an author of critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Stephen Spielberg directed the 1985 film which included Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg,Danny Glover and received 11 Oscar nominations winning none. Photo above right, Alice Walker, courtesy Wikimedia.

Women's Equality Day is a day proclaimed each year by the United States President to commemorate the granting of the vote to women throughout the country on an equal basis with men. Women in the United States were granted the right to vote on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitutional was passed and prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
The amendment was first introduced many years earlier in 1878.


Every president has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day since 1971 (93 years after the amendment was introduced) when legislation was first introduced in Congress by Bella Abzug.

This resolution was passed designating August 26 of each year as Women's Equality Day.

The Amendment was drafted by prominent civil rights leader, Susan B. Anthony (pictured above left) with assistant, American social activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (pictured right).

It took another 51 years to form Women's Equality Day - at the urgent request of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY)(photo left) -- in 1971 the U.S. Congress designated August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.”

For more information visit "League of Women voters recognizes anniverary of 19th Amendment" article by Christine Kneidinger.

In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) an organization dedicated to gaining women's suffrage. Anthony insisted that Stanton become president as long as possible; Anthony served as vice-president-at-large until 1892 when she became president. (pictured right, Anthony and Stanton in later years - Stanton seated)

Photo below page 1 of the HOUSE BILL giving women the right to vote.

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Web to Web 2.0 Timeline: Just in Time for Blogger's big 014 birthday ▲ ▲ ▲ 'evergreen marketing insighter' by Gloria Buono-Daly

Happy Birthday Blogger! Would you believe it, already Blogger  is celebrating it's second year as a teen? Happy 14th to Blogger. Where's the google doodle?

Amazing how since Web 2.0, bloggers have been springing up everywhere. Only thing is, we still do not have the exact birthday date. Maybe we could make that day "BLOG DAY an official holiday? Was it in August 23rd or 24th or was it in September? 

For sure many would love to know when the original candles were blown so we could join in the sing along "O Happy B Day Blogger...!" Blogger Buzz can keep us posted on news about your BIG 014 but you need to visit or subscribe to the Blogger Buzz feed.

The number of bloggers in the U.S. has increased over the past 5 years, yet writers who have primary source of income from blogs are still relatively few in relation to the overall U.S. blogging population.

According to blogging.org, as of 2012, there is an overall total of 31 million bloggers in the U.S. of which 35% (10.85 million) are using Blogger. This overall estimate represents a 37% increase from 5 years ago when in 2007, Jonathan Adler of the Wall Street Journal reported an estimated 22.6 million bloggers in the US.

Unfortunately even though bloggers with primary source of incomes from blogging increased nearly 450% in the past 5 years -- to 8% (2.48 million) from less than a quarter of 1% (.02% or 452,000 bloggers) in 2007 -- the representation is very insignificant compared to the remaining 28,520,000 bloggers who are unable to earn a minimal income from blogging.

Total worldwide internet users have increased 51% over the past 3 years -- from 1.6 billion in 2009 to 2.41 billion in 2012.

United States internet users were estimated at 108.1 million in 2000 and as of June 2012 Internet World Stats reported a total of 251.7 million US internet users -- an increase of 127% from 12 years ago with a country ranking of 2 roughly 10.2% of the 2.41 billion world internet user population.

China still ranks 1st at 22% (538 million users) of total 2.42 billion world internet users and India 3rd at 5.7% (or 137 million users). For a detailed chart of internet world stats and the top 20 countries visit Internet World Stats.

Below please find a brief Web to Web 2.0 timeline of newsworthy milestones which purport to provide a basic historical and informational chronology from a marketing perspective:


• 1994 – In January, Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the WWW" while studying at Stanford University and rename it Yahoo in April

• 1995 – Yahoo is incorporated in March

• 1995 – Amazon is launched

• 1995 – Search engines are launched

• 1999 – Although bookmarking was around earlier, bookmarking became popular in businesses and mainstream during this period

• 2000 – Sites are optimized for search engines that were being catalogued on the Web

• 1996 to 1999 – Search engines are launched with pay per click programs, Open Text in 1996 and GoTo.com in 1998

• 1997 – The first blog goes online, known as “weblog” originally used as a niche for geeks; Weblog was coined in December 1997 by Jorn Barger 

• 1997 – The phrase “search engine optimization” is mostly likely coined during this period, according to Danny Sullivan of  The New York Times

• 1998 – Google  is founded by Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin and files for incorporation in California on September 7th

• 1999 – The first version of RSS feed is created in March by Romanathan V. Guha for use on the My.Netscape.com portal (RSS 0.9)

• 1999 – Blogger  is launched on August 23rd by Pyra Labs. Evan Williams and Megan Hourihan of Pyra Labs, originally created this software with the intention of being an in-house application to integrate project management, contact management and task lists. Blogger becomes available to the public in August but does not become mainstream until later.

• 2000 – Google reaches the first billion-URL index and earns the reputation of being the largest search engine in the world; Adwords program is launched offering internet pay per click programs; Yahoo selects Google as it's default search results provider

• 2001 – GoTo.com changes their name to Overture (purchased by Yahoo later)

• 2001 – According to MediaPost on August 9, 2001, Jupiter research predicted spending on digital marketing US ad spending would reach $19 billion by 2006

• 2001 – Wikipedia is available but is not yet mainstream
• 2001 – Danny Sullivan of The New York Times coins the term “Search Engine Marketing”

• 2002 – Search Engine Marketing US advertising spending reaches approximately $1.3 billion

• 2002 – Blogger  is completely rewritten at Prya Labs for licensure for other countries, with Globo company of Brazil becoming the first licensee recipient

• 2002 – Blogs gain momentum

• 2002 – Consumer Reports WebWatch files a report about the controversy and issues on search engine paid advertising

• 2002 - Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issues communications about the importance of paid advertising on search engines in response to a complaint from Consumer Advocacy Group, affiliated with Ralph Nader

• 2003 – Google purchases Blogger from Pyra Labs in February, the terms were undisclosed.

• 2003 – Yahoo purchases the Overture pay per click (PPC) program and offers paid online advertising

• 2003 – Del.icio.us,  initially known as a passive bookmark function launches; Later on del.icio.us becomes very popular with the launch of Friendster (2007); Users are able to let other users see what they are bookmarking; Social bookmarking gained popularity with the launch of del.icio.us.

• 2003 – The second US 3G (3rd generation cellular wireless) Verizon Wireless network operation launches; The first US Monet Mobile Wireless launched and shut down shortly afterwards; Japan, May 2001 and Korea, May 2002, were the first 2 countries to launch 3G operation networks

• 2003 - The Can Spam Act is signed into law on December 16th by President George W. Bush to regulate commercial email and is enforced by the FTC

• 2004 - Yahoo launches its own web-crawling algorithm in February, using its own site index phasing out Google's search results system it has used since May 2000
• 2004 -Google launches Gmail; In April Amazon partnered with Google using it' search results system

• 2004 - The first Annual Advertising Week Conference begins in September in New York City

• 2004 -  Web 2.0 O’Reilly Conference is held on October 5 – 7, 2004 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, CA. Although about16 years into Web 0.0 and 5 years into Web 2.0, we still do not know where it is going; Transformational elements are unknown as Web-Web2.0 are still new and the industry has no idea of what infrastructures will go away. Many innovations with no ads, no subscription feeds, free to the end user, are floating on venture capital. Big issue is these innovations lack business models and it is predicted that many of these web innovations probably will not survive unless purchased, merged, with a larger company, etc.

• Wikipedia and Blogs become mainstream; Momentum is largely attributable to the announcement of Web 2.0
• February 2004 Flickr (image tag base navigation becomes available)
• February 2004 - it is estimated that Facebook has over 10 billion photos from over 125 million users by the end of 2004 (Facebook & Flickr become the biggest privacy disasters)

• 2005 – National Governments all over the world embrace Web 2.0 and create official blogs; Israel is the first country to have a government blog, IsraelPolitik

• 2005 - February 2005 – YouTube

• 2005 – August 2005 - Library Thing

• 2005 – Wordpress.com opens to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and to the public on November 21, 2005.

• 2005 – Search Engine Marketing advertising spending is at approximately $5.8 billion (a 363% increase from 2002)

• 2005 – Google begins personalizing search results by users dependent upon user’s previous search history

• 2005 – In December, Microsoft and the Outlook team announce they are using the RSS feed icon which was first used in the Mozilla Firefox Browser 

• 2006 - $18.7 billion on internet ads was invested worldwide in 2006

• 2006 – Twitter is launched in October and evolves into a virtual water cooler experience having the power to hold social groups; Users can chat away about what they're doing and if anyone is interested in knowing, they can read, or watch what you’re doing and reply, follow, etc.; E.g., discuss iPhone feature,  communicate with people in different parts of the world separated in space and time; Although it is not the same as face to face it is similar enough to feel some kind of connection to people using twitter, Facebook or Youtube

• 2006 – Search Engine Marketing takes the lead in advertising and grows much faster than traditional advertising and other online marketing channels; US SEM advertising spending reaches approximately $9.4 billion, (a 62% increase over 2005 US spending); Worldwide, US 2006 ad spending had a 38% marketshare of total global internet ad spending calculated at $24.9 billion internet ads invested worldwide in 2006 (an increase of 33% from the previous year’s worldwide ad spending); Interesting to note that Jupiter’s estimate back in August 2001 was off by almost $10.0 billion less than actual of $9.4 billion

• 2006 – Google acquires YouTube, an internet video sharing service. Check out Gloria's latest YouTube videos here and subscribe as many more will follow.

• 2007 – October 2007 FriendFeed is created by former Google employees (known as the first lifestreaming service integrating all of your internet activity in your friendfeed nework, can have messages from twitter pulled into friendfeed which generates a lot of discussion in friendfeed and social networking feedback which can lead you to discover other sources of friends with similar interests; If you are traveling and you are in the same location as someone else in your friendfeed network, this can be a useful tool in knowing who in your network is nearby; all different internet activities are funneled into a single place and has a personal view; has the highest level of discussion, can get a huge amount of interaction in friendfeed more than from blogs; can create a room and pull entries from different sources that can create an RSS feed, audio podcasts, etc. used by science publishers, libarians, etc. create customized feeds that can come to you, the individual, on what type of information you want to have delivered to you)

• 2007 – pay-per-click programs become primary money-makers for search engines

• 2007 – Google announces a campaign against “paid links” that transfer page rank and many urls are suspended and banned from the Web

• 2007 – China's launch of 3G network is delayed in September 2007; A total of 190 3G networks are operating in 40 countries by December 2007

• 2008 – Google Chrome is released on September 4th and celebrates it's 10th year on September 7th

• 2008 – Sprint NOW 3G Network (3rd generation of cellular wireless) is launched in December

• 2008 – Web 2008 World of Social Networking:  private information becomes public

• Blogs, wikis, RSS, bookmarking, image tagging, multimedia, search, etc. 

• 2008 – US internet ad spending reaches $27.5 billion

• 2008 – The Dow's biggest one-day drop on September 29, 2008 of 778 points (surpassing the first trading day loss after 9/11), after the rejection of the House bailout plan; According to CNN Money, this drop represents an approximate value loss of $1.2 trillion

• 2009 – Google takes measures to mitigate the effects of PageRank sculpting by use of nofollow attribute on links

• 2009 – The future of blogging is customization and life relevancy; After 16 years after inception, LifeStream  is all the buzz as the next generation of social media. Back in the mid 1990’s, the term LifeStream was originally coined by Eric Freeman and David Gelertner at Yale University to describe a cyber diary of one’s life, streaming all of internet activities in one cohesive lifestream. Now about 15 years later, LifeStreaming, an innovative cyber platform combines all of a individual’s internet activities and information onto a unified platform known as a stream. Addins and plugins are created to help the user to “stream his/her life” and are listed as follows:

• SimpleLife Wordpress plugin to add to your lifestream as a widget or webpage
• RSS Stream Wordpress plugin
• Sweetcron

• 2009 - Advertising Week celebrates it's fifth annual event September 21st - 25th at the Nokia Theatre in New York City

• 2009 - Blogger announced the celebration of its 10th anniversary will include the addition of new features that were requested by its users

• October 2009 - Web 2.0 Summit, Co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media Inc. is being held on October 20 - 22, 2009 in San Francisco, CA at the Westin San Francisco Market Street

• 2010 - Blogger introduced their new templates and redesigned its website. According to the Experiment Garden blog "Critique and Criticism of the New Blogger Post Editor," the new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its original version created in June 2008

• 2012 - Blogger updates signup process ensuring new users are immediately equipped with a Gmail and Google+ account as soon as their Google account has been registered in addition to all of Google activity streamlined -- Blogger now joins YouTube, Docs, Search, Gmail, and Google+ in getting the updated signup flow.

• If you are interested in following please feel free to follow me on Twitter @gbdaly or www.twitter.com/gbdaly  

If you have any comments about Blogger's Big 014, don't hesitate to post your comments. Thanks for visiting and again, "Happy Blog Day to you Blogger!"

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'One to One with Gloria' and honoree Maria Cuomo Cole on the red carpet at The 3rd Elly Awards at The Plaza Hotel on June 25, 2013 – See what you missed video

“…I feel grateful and appreciative of the women mentors I’ve had in my life. I’m inspired to do more… ” ~~ Maria Cuomo Cole , advocate, activist, filmmaker and Chair of HELP USA; As quoted on the red carpet during The 3rd Annual Emmy Awards, The Plaza Hotel, New York City, June 25, 2013

Below is the latest video, 'One to One with Gloria' and honoree Maria Cuomo Cole during red carpet at The 3rd Annual Elly Awards at The Plaza Hotel, New York City on June 25, 2013.

The opportunity to meet and interview Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producer of The Invisible War, was truly inspiring. The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary, received the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award in 2012. Throughout her career in the public and private sectors, Cole has produced and directed short films, public service announcements and digital content to raise awareness for a variety of social issues. Cole serves as Chair of HELPUSA.ORG, the leading national developer of housing for homeless and low income populations including families, victims of domestic violence, and veterans. She also serves as director on the boards of Mentoring USA, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and HELP PSI.

The Elly Award recognizes extraordinary and often heroic effort in overcoming adversity and the most daunting of odds in restructuring lives for success. Grants are awarded to women over the age of 35 who, after suffering great adversity and an interruption in their education, are now pursuing undergraduate college degrees. More information about The Elly Awards event is at The 3rd Annual Elly Awards honors Maria Cuomo Cole and Pat Mitchell: Eve Ensler moderates leadership conversation with honorees. There's plenty of Elly Awards photos on FACEBOOK too!

Watch, learn, be inspired and stay tuned for more exciting “One to One” event videos!

Here’s to looking at another one of my proudest moments. And there will be more exciting "One to One" interviews to follow so please bookmark this page and follow the AllThingsDigitalMarketing blog. Thanks!

"One to One with Gloria" interviews are by AllThingsDigitalMarketing.com. This video was produced using video, photos and audio recordings from interviews by Gloria Buono-Daly during the event. Interested in knowing how this video was done? Maria Benevenga, Senior Design Specialist and Creative Extraordinaire created the video using Adobe FinalCut Pro software and/or Adobe Premiere.


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Resources (updated regularly)
► More information and photos on the AllThingsDigitalMarketing blog http://myblog.allthingsdigitalmarketing.com/2013/08/one-to-one-with-gloria-and-honoree-pat.html
► Maria Cuomo Cole, at The 3rd Annual Elly Awards on YouTUBE http://youtu.be/hOtTWCbRr3w
► Maria Cuomo Cole bio on Huffington Post
► HELP USA
► The Invisible War br> ► The Invisible War on Wikimedia.org
► James Grant PR
► James Grant Marketing PR



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'One to One with Gloria' and honoree Pat Mitchell on the red carpet at The 3rd Elly Awards at The Plaza Hotel on June 25, 2013 – See what you missed video

“…It feels so good to be honored by your peers. And while these women are not all in media, which is where I spent most of my last 30 years, they are linked through all causes and business centers so to have them recognize your work and your leadership is very special. ” ~~ Pat Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) in New York City and the former President and the first woman and first producer and journalist to hold the position of CEO of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from 2000 to 2006; As quoted on the red carpet during The 3rd Annual Emmy Awards, The Plaza Hotel, New York City, June 25, 2013

Below is the latest video, 'One to One with Gloria' and honoree Pat Mitchell during red carpet at The 3rd Annual Elly Awards at The Plaza Hotel, New York City on June 25, 2013.

The opportunity to meet and interview highly esteemed, global media businesswoman and philanthropist, Pat Mitchell, was truly amazing and an inspiration. Mitchell, currently President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) was also the first woman, first producer and journalist to hold the position of CEO of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from 2000 to 2006.

More information about The Elly Awards event is at blog titled The 3rd Annual Elly Awards honors Maria Cuomo Cole and Pat Mitchell: Eve Ensler moderates leadership conversation with honorees. There's plenty of Elly Awards photos on FACEBOOK too!

Watch, learn, be inspired and stay tuned for more exciting “One to One” event videos!

Here’s to looking at another one of my proudest moments. And there will be more exciting "One to One" interviews to follow so please bookmark this page and follow the AllThingsDigitalMarketing blog. Thanks!

"One to One with Gloria" interviews are by AllThingsDigitalMarketing.com. This video was produced using video, photos and audio recordings from interviews by Gloria Buono-Daly during the event. Interested in knowing how this video was done? Maria Benevenga, Senior Design Specialist and Creative Extraordinaire created the video using Adobe FinalCut Pro software and/or Adobe Premiere.


Hope you find this event coverage relevant, informative and useful. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below. Thanks!


Please feel free to spread the news with your social networks and share your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks!

Resources (updated regularly)
► Pat Mitchell, at The 3rd Annual Elly Awards on YouTUBE http://youtu.be/j4sgyA2dgbk
► Pat Mitchell on wikimedia
► The Paley Center for Media, New York City http://www.paleycenter.org/
► The Paley Center for Media
► James Grant PR
► James Grant Marketing PR


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