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Name: Andrew
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Metro: St. Louis
Birthday: 1/22/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: theology, becoming a better husband, blogging, reading, writing, reminding myself that I'm in a race...
Expertise: I like writing....
Occupation: Marketing Analyst
Industry: Computers (Hardware)
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
2/23/2004
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| I have no idea if anyone still uses Xanga and is subscribed to me, but
if you're still out there, I just wanted to let you all know that I
have officially moved my writing activities to my own personal website.
That's right, you can visit the official website of Andrew Nagy!
I don't write on there a whole lot, but I've moved over some of my
favorite stuff from here as well as written some new things. Check it
out, if you like.
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| I answered (or tried to answer) your objections and am very interested in your responses to my response of your... response... yeah....
C'mon!
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| I know it's been a while... I've been getting into Facebook because you don't have to do as much to stay connected. But I think Xanga will remain useful for my deeper thoughts and ideas. So here's one.
The issue:
Ever notice how people
can't seem to find the words to explain just how crazy, how cool, how
amazing, how beautiful, how horrible, now super evil, how boring, or
how lame something/someone/some(when?) is? Why is it that we feel the
need to qualify our story/experience using the most extreme language
possible.
The cause:
I think the root of it is we want
people to believe our story is great and we're great because we're
telling it. In an age where everything is competing for the attention
of everyone, we feel it necessary to hold the attention of our friends
and family with our amazing stories and experiences.
The effects:
This
has a drastic (oh no! so amazingly crazy awesome extreme!) effect on
the way we communicate daily. I'm reminded of the boy who cried wolf. I
think we abuse severe language and make it commonplace. We want our
story, our experience to be unique, so we use the extreme, unique
language. The end result is that these words that we use begin to
actually mean very little to the person on the receiving end. In the
end, not only do our stories no longer achieve the unique extreme
effect we wanted, but no one's does, even when there are times when
they should. If extreme language is overused, it becomes non-extreme
and loses its meaning. Then, when there actually is an event that
requires extreme language, it is not understood properly. That's a
problem.
The solution:
Easy. Stop using extreme language so
commonly. It's a problem we all suffer from, myself included. I think
we should be consciously thinking about how we can correct our language
to accurately convey the message we want to with no frills or
excessivity. I'm pretty sure that's not a word, but due to all the good
words having been used already, I had to make one up. As Jesus said,
"Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no' be 'no.'" I think this has far
reaching implications.
Your thoughts.
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| Since the participation rate in this inquiry was abysmal, those who answered (though all wrong) all get the promised e-props. Here are the answers.
SEM - Search Engine Marketing. This is an all encompassing term for any kind of marketing that has to do with search engines... obviously.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization. This is the particular aspect of SEM in which marketers optimize there web site using various means (sometimes simple, sometimes complicated) in order for search engines to show their site as results for key terms.
PPC - Pay Per Click. This is the more disliked form of SEM which involves all those sponsored ads you see on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, et al. Marketers bid on key phrases so that when a user of a search engine searches for that phrase, the marketer's ad will show up. If the user clicks on the marketer's ad, the marketer is then charged the bid amount (roughly) for that click.
That's about as simple as I can put it. But that's my job. I focus on PPC more, but I do all of it. Not that any of you really care, but I don't really get to talk about my job to anyone so my last post was almost a plea for help to see if I could find someone who knew what I was talking about. Sigh.
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| Does anyone know what SEO stands for? How about PPC? SEM?
1,000 e-props to anyone who can tell me what any of these mean without cheating with Google... which would be ironic. That's your only hint.
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