Posted by Ellie Mirman on Thu, May 07, 2009 @ 12:26 PM
I won't even attempt to deny I'm not a marketing geek. One of the things I loved about Kyle James' blog post "Jokes: 36 Reasons You Might be Addicted to Social Media" was "#6: You own the Google search results for your name." That definitely held true for me.
Here are all the top results for my name - x right in a row.
- My blog
- My blog "about me" page
- Twitter
- Facebook
- FriendFeed
- MITX
- LinkedIn
- Twitterholic
- SEMPO Meetup
- AMA Boston
- Amazon.com
- RSSmeme
- one of my recent tweets
- BoardReader
- one of my flickr photos
- my comment on a blog post
- Digg
- FriendFeed (again!)
- Tweetree
- another flickr photo
- Twitter mobile
- a mention on another blog
- BackType
- Insightory presentation I did on Twitter
- HubSpot blog article I posted
- my comment on a blog post
- a reposting of one of my articles from the HubSpot blog
- my comment on a blog post
- SlideShare presentation I did on Inbound Marketing
- my comment on a blog post
- my listing as a speaker for Geek Girl Camp
OK, I'll stop there. The results actually go on and on - and rightfully all about me. I actually made it 12 results pages deep before giving up on finding that first non-me-related result! Of course, I understand that there aren't a lot of Ellie Mirmans out there (if any!), and that even my first or my last name separately are not very common. But, damn, that was a lot of content!
Some things I realized:
- It's easy to create a lot of bits of content. I don't consider myself to be such a prolific writer / content producer (at least for the public web). Most of the results were either profiles on different social media sites, blog comments, presentations I had posted on sharing sites, or blog posts themselves.
- I've got a lot of social media profiles. Set up, not necessarily in use. Funny enough, they're almost ranked in the order in which I use them the most. First Twitter, then Facebook, then LinkedIn... In any case, social media profiles rank very well because of the reputation and optimization of the sites, and this actually serves as a good way for helping people connect with you online even via a Google search.
- What do your search results say about you? At first I was going to say, no one searches for your name (most likely) anyway, so who cares. But really, there may be a few who do, and they are probably either (1) trying to find/connect with you or (2) trying to learn more about you. Getting found in these top search results ensures that you're enabling connections. And producing more content ensures that you have good results (instead of potentially damaging results) at the top. What do my search results say about me? Well, that I work at HubSpot, and I'm pretty active in social media.
Of course, for those folks out there with less content or more competition for their name on the web, the Google profile gives everyone a good opportunity to get prime real estate on the first page of search results for their name.
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Posted by Ellie Mirman on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 @ 07:29 AM
One of the features that I [hated at first but now] love about Firefox 3 is the "smart" address bar that remembers the web pages you've been to along with all their page titles - so if you start typing the website URL or page title, Firefox pulls up a few suggestions of sites you've recently or repeatedly visited.
Every once in a while, I get a kick out of the suggestions it makes for me, and how smart it's gotten about the sites I visit most frequently.
So here's a look at my Internet - the first suggestion for each letter - from A to Z.
A: amazon.com
B: blog.hubspot.com
C: citicards.com
D: digg.com
E: elliemirman.com
F: facebook.com
G: gmail.com
H: hubspot.com
I: inboundmarketingsummit.com/agenda
J: jetblue.com
K: hubspot.com/website-redesign-kit
L: linkedin.com
M: maps.google.com
N: netflix.com
O: onstartups.com blog article
P: pandora.com
Q: hubspot.com/customer-case-studies/?Tag=quote
R: rebeccacorliss.com
S: search.twitter.com
T: twitter.com
U: unionstbrooklynbandb.com
V: vcall.com
W: weather.com for my zip code
X: [random yahoo login page]
Y: youtube.com
Z: zazzle.com/hubspotgear
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Posted by Ellie Mirman on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 @ 09:25 AM
If you haven't yet, go check out the tragic story of Bronto and his diet coke castle - made out of, yep, you guessed it, Diet Coke cans drunk by myself and Rebecca Corliss. We are both Diet Coke addicts and... silly people.
But Bronto's folks are just as silly. Here's DJ Waldow & friends' video response to the whole story:
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 @ 07:32 AM
This is only my second blogger meme (read my first and this one too), so I'm still pretty excited about these things. In particular, this meme.
To get you up to speed - what happens with these blogger memes is that a blogger will write a post like "6 Reasons Why I Blog" or "Five Fun Facts About Me" and "tag" a number of other bloggers (by mentioning them by name and linking to their blogs) so that they follow in suite.
Well, Mike Volpe tagged me (and the rest of our awesome marketing department) in the "Five Fun Facts" meme. So here goes:
Five Fun Facts About Me
- When I was younger, I wrote and illustrated a number of books with my friends. I really wanted to be a cartoonist or children's book illustrator when I grew up. (By the way, I still have those books - maybe someday I'll scan them in and post them here... if I get the OK from my co-authors.)
- My other childhood dream was to be a mermaid. I think this had more to do with liking The Little Mermaid than (coincidentally) my last name (Mirman).
- I am an organizational geek. The Container Store and art supply stores are my Heaven. I am all about lists and color coding.
- I really enjoy learning new languages and visiting new places, but very rarely stick with any one language (I've studied at least 5 languages, but most I didn't get past the beginner level) or visit a given place more than once.
- Up until a few years ago, I did not eat pizza. I'm not lactose intolerant or anything, but I do not like tomato sauce and, until about halfway through college, did not go anywhere near pizza. Still, all my pre-college friends would, without a doubt, drop their jaws to see me eat pizza. (I started eating pizza again about halfway through college because not eating pizza is almost as crazy-sounding to a college student as not eating chocolate. Rest assured, I do eat chocolate.)
As for the tagging, I'll let you, my readers, do the work for me... those of you who want to jump in on this meme, go ahead and blog about it and leave a link to your post in the comments below. (What a fun little way to learn more about each other...)
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 @ 10:55 AM
Credits:
Bronto: Himself
Ellie: @ellieeille
Rebecca: @repcor
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Mon, Dec 22, 2008 @ 06:49 PM
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 @ 08:27 PM
After my last post about the Sixth Photo Meme, I was all excited about going through my old photos again. So I went back to my Facebook photos and this time looked at the sixth photo of my sixth album (rather than the sixth photo on the sixth page). Here's what I found:
This is a photo of me and my friend Hannah (who I also tag in my last post) in Quebec City a few years back during Winter Carnival. Winter Carnival is the funnest - and coldest - time to be in Quebec City. At the carnival, there are tons of amazing wintery things going on, including a snow sculpture show. There were some pretty incredible creations, but in addition, there was one group allowing Carnival-goers to contribute to the making of a snow sculpture. And that's what we're doing here - we've grabbed a few shovels and picks and started hacking away at the lump of snow.
Can you tell what it is?
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 @ 12:20 AM
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Mon, Jul 21, 2008 @ 01:46 PM
So. True.
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