My, my what a great deal has changed since then.  In an effort to keep up, here are some current trends:

• Check out Meetup.com and Bloblive.com, and Ning.com
• As the technology advances, and becomes more user-friendly, the grass roots localisation of the web is coming to fruition
• Local Media companies are replacing local TV stations, Radio stations, Newspapers, Tabloids, Leads Clubs, Social Clubs, Affinity Associations, Political Action groups….
• Once a small cog in Google’s big wheel, you can now reach half the population between MySpace and Facebook, and quite possibly 80% on about 46 different social media sites.
• The Internet has changed traffic patterns, life styles, culture, demographics, and the media. (Heck, it is the media!)

The Social Media Marketing plan for 2009 must include:

• Syndicated RSS feeds
• Video and other graphic content
• Profiles on major highly traveled sites (My Space, Digg, Facebook etc.)
• Opt-in subscriptions, groups, feeds, email – mybloglog.com is a good place to start building an affinity group
• User-generated, user filtered content – the amount of content needed to rank now is more than you will consistently generate on your own – and you must have an automated way for the content producers, contributors to police themselves with user-ratings
• Social Bookmarking (you must stumbleupon.com your content, bookmark with delicious, netscape.com, etc.)
• You must ping the world and tell them when there is new content to keep the robots crawling your site more and more regularly
• All these things must be optimized properly

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