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The SMA-NA WebSite is now live which means that SMA-NA is now an actual entity. Unfortunately, the site just looks like a resource site and bulletin board.
So far it's a pretty basic setup - we are adding content as it's created and translated (many thanks to Nacho for translating the Spanish page already!).
We should be properly incorporated this week, and be able to officially launch on March 2 during SES NYC (I hope!)
Once we have actual paid members, we will be getting the benefits packages that match it. The more members, the more benifits, typically. It's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario right now, with potential members looking for benifits, and potential benifits providers wanting to know how many members we have.
There is a lot of interest on both sides, though, so it looks like things are going well so far :)
We want much of the content to come from the members (or paid research) - it would be a bad idea for the working group members to use this as an opportunity to provide content that could be seen as self promotional, for example, so that type of content is not up right now.
In short - we are at what I would consider "functional" but not "complete" - think of it as a "soft launch" or even beta test, rather than a finished product.
I DO encourage people to sign up to the forum and ask questions and provide feedback. Remember, this is not intended to be yet another SEO forum - it's a members forum, and the members happen to do SEO/M.
Although I personally like the interactivity of forums, I would like to see a LOT more content on the rest of the site, especially in the research and knowledgebase areas. That will have to wait until March, I think.
The SMA-NA was just an idea on Dec 22, and now almost exactly 2 months later we have a 23 member working group, a multilingual website, a members forum with 50 members in 10 days (most of which will becoming paid members) and more than 12 thousand views, several interested sponsors and benefit providers, and a LOT of feedback from the SEO/M community from various forums (including this one) that we will be implementing ASAP.
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So far it's a pretty basic setup - we are adding content as it's created and translated (many thanks to Nacho for translating the Spanish page already!).
We should be properly incorporated this week, and be able to officially launch on March 2 during SES NYC (I hope!)
Once we have actual paid members, we will be getting the benefits packages that match it. The more members, the more benifits, typically. It's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario right now, with potential members looking for benifits, and potential benifits providers wanting to know how many members we have.
There is a lot of interest on both sides, though, so it looks like things are going well so far :)
We want much of the content to come from the members (or paid research) - it would be a bad idea for the working group members to use this as an opportunity to provide content that could be seen as self promotional, for example, so that type of content is not up right now.
In short - we are at what I would consider "functional" but not "complete" - think of it as a "soft launch" or even beta test, rather than a finished product.
I DO encourage people to sign up to the forum and ask questions and provide feedback. Remember, this is not intended to be yet another SEO forum - it's a members forum, and the members happen to do SEO/M.
Although I personally like the interactivity of forums, I would like to see a LOT more content on the rest of the site, especially in the research and knowledgebase areas. That will have to wait until March, I think.
The SMA-NA was just an idea on Dec 22, and now almost exactly 2 months later we have a 23 member working group, a multilingual website, a members forum with 50 members in 10 days (most of which will becoming paid members) and more than 12 thousand views, several interested sponsors and benefit providers, and a LOT of feedback from the SEO/M community from various forums (including this one) that we will be implementing ASAP.
I don't think that's a bad start...
Ian