I’ve added two AWESOME free membership sites to the free tools area!

Make sure you go sign up for -

- AdsenseGirl.com - Free Adsense Resource Membership Site by the AWESOME Liz Tomey, and
- Instant Squeeze Page Generator - Free Squeeze Page Generator Site by Robert Puddy

Enjoy!

*melanie

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There’s an interesting question that’s been bandied about in forums, chat rooms, etc. for that last year or so, and without a truly satisfactory consensus. That question is…

What IS “Web 2.0″ anyway?

I’m certainly not going to be able to give a comprehensive answer to that question here today, but I AM going to post a VERY cool video done by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, that I think is going to knock your SOCKS off.

It is fun, fast-paced, and (like I said) very cool. At the same time, though…it also kinda blew my mind and made me tear up a bit.

Watch it below and tell me what YOU think!

(here’s a little “viral marketing” tidbit about the power of YouTube, as well…that video has almost 3 million views!)

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The latest widget that Myspace has added to the user backend is a fun little thing called “Status and Mood.”

It allows a user to choose from a drop-down menu of pre-filled in “Status” text or fill in their own. You then get to choose a “Mood” and accompanying Smilie.

It populates just above your Mailbox Notifications, as you can see in this screenshot of my admin panel, so it will be getting maximum exposure!

Here’s where it really gets interesting, though…and useful for us marketers! See that text that says, “View my Friends Status Updates”?

Here’s what you see when you click that:

It’s a list, complete with profile icons, of all your Status Updates of all of your friends. This is a great way to remind people that you are on their friends lists! Particularly now that bulletins are largely ignored by most users, this has the potential to be a REALLY useful tool.

Another benefit is that because you can’t put a link or a long message that would be conducive to spamming, these will likely be more genuinely used by true members of the site who are interested in keeping up with their friends list, therefore much more likely to be taken seriously by users.

This doesn’t, however, mean that you can’t use it to build buzz or generate traffic back to your page from your friends list. Myspace populates the “{Your Username} is” part and you fill in the rest.

So how about messages like: Melanie is…

- excited about her latest blog post!
- missing her friends…leave me a comment, guys!
- stoked because she just put a new video on her page!

The possibilities abound! I love this tool because it’s so “Networking Friendly” and so “Spamming UN-friendly.” Myspace has HUGE profit potential when you use it for what it’s intended for - to network - and this is a great tool.

Lastly, the myspace crowd is fickle and likely will be bored with this in a couple of months…if I were you, I’d jump on this widget while it’s the hot new thing!

*melanie

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Thought I’d start things off by sharing a few of my favorite free tools that come in oh-so-handy in Internet Marketing -

PageBreeze - Free HTML Editor
Serif PhotoPlus - Free Photo Editor
FaviconGenerator - Free Favicon Generator

Enjoy!

*melanie

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