Web Savvy Marketing » Mashable http://www.web-savvy-marketing.com We are web designers, SEO consultants, bloggers, social media enthusiasts, and WordPress experts all rolled up into one. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:21:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Popularity Contests Take the Next Level With Social Media http://www.web-savvy-marketing.com/2009/11/popularity-contests-take-it-to-the-next-level-with-social-media/ http://www.web-savvy-marketing.com/2009/11/popularity-contests-take-it-to-the-next-level-with-social-media/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:56:50 +0000 Rebecca Gill http://www.web-savvy-marketing.com/?p=517 Read more]]> We are all familiar with the popularity contests of high school.  The idea of becoming homecoming queen or the student council president scared me as a teen, as neither were my thing.  I was more quiet and into other pursuits.  What is funny is now, some twenty years later, I find myself in Internet marketing and social media.  What is even funnier is the fact that I didn’t gasp at the idea of Mashable’s Open Web Awards Social Media Edition popularity contest.  Instead, I’d love to be nominated or win.  What the heck happened to me?

Maybe I grew up or morphed into someone else.  I can say my fellow high school classmates saw a new me at our twentieth class reunion.  I was more outgoing, hugged everyone, and was much more “out there” than I ever was back in school.  I think a major part of this is due to my profession and my persona on the Internet.

I developed this persona back in my ERP software days and have continued it now that I run my own Internet marketing company.  A few years ago someone who knew me through my blog approached me at a conference.  While this didn’t alarm me then, it does now.  Again, didn’t want to be the queen of high school, so why do I have this urge to be the bell of the Internet?  Technology.  I love it and cannot get enough of it.

I love technology so much that the idea of a popularity contest intrigues me and does not haunt me.  I even voted for @puremichigan and @shitmydadsays as the best social media campaign and funniest tweets.  So I have changed and I think for the better.  The Internet has blessed me in many ways and I think this very personal change is just an example of why I’m attached to my Mac and my wi-fi.

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