For your reading pleasure (week 4, 2010)

Common and real concerns about intranet micro-blogging

Oscar de-bunks, with the help of some sociology and communication theory, a few of the most commonly aired concerns regarding the using of micro-blogging as an intranet tool

Top 5 Misconceptions about How Social Media traffic Converts

Jesper helps explain how social media is not a direct sales channel that converts instantly, instead it’s part of your wider, long term, distributed web presence.

Survey Results: Impact of Blogging on Search Engine Optimization

Lots of interesting quotes and stats in this survey summary. Not just blogs, but regularly publishing & promoting relevant content has a “direct” impact on SEO.

Should a Blog or Twitter be Your Social Media Hub?

As I wrote in the comments of this post, I think it’s possible to switch out “social media efforts” for “distributed web presence” in what Jason Baer says.

5 Ways to find out if an SEO is lying to you

There’s a lot of money being spent ineffectively on SEO by misinformed and under-informed website owners. This post gives 5 useful “oh oh” signs to look for.

Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year

The way in which we consume the Internet is continuing to evolve. Be careful with the table at the end of the article, Australia is top – but they only surveyed 10 countries.