Since we’re getting ready to fly to Vegas to speak this weekend, I didn’t want to leave without making a quick post. But with no time to write an article myself, I decided to spread some link love.

Anyway, here are five of them…

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Well, we finally got it.

After close to ten long months, our wedding video arrived. I’ve converted it for the web using Flash (it’s small since it’s highly compressed — the original was over nine gigabytes!).

I used Camtasia since the new version allows you to break a large video into smaller parts, and creates tables of content on the lefthand side.

Click the next video in the list once the current one finishes.

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I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Russell Brunson at various seminars. Russell is not only an Internet marketer, he’s also a bright guy.

And recently, he’s proven my assessment to be true.

When he told me I was nominated as part of his Marketer of The Year 2006 Awards, in the copywriting category, at first I was somewhat reticent. But when I saw the list of those I’m up against, needless to say, I was stunned.

Nominees include the likes of Dan Kennedy, Yanik Silver, Armand Morin, Mike Filsaime, Mark Joyner, Rich Schefren, Perry Marshall, Shawn Casey, Joel Comm, Ryan Deiss, and a ton of others!

But here’s Russell’s brilliance.

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Looks like I’ve been tagged again.

Apparently, Mike Sansone of ConverStations started the new tagging trend, titled, “Why do I blog?” Ryan Healy then added me to this list.

I’ve been tagged in the past, and this is something I really like. Why? Because it not only allows us to “peek” inside the minds of bloggers. It also gives us a great deal of insight into why blogs are so popular — and how they can be used as marketing tools.

So, to that end, here are my answers:

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“If you only have time for one clue this year, this is the one to get: We are not seats or eyeballs or end-​​users or consumers. We are human beings — and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it.”
— From “The Cluetrain Manifesto,” Harper Collins, April, 1999.

“One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.”
— John Naisbitt, author of “Megatrends” and “High-​​Tech, High-​​Touch”

My initial intent wasn’t to write this report. It’s the result of a post I was envisioning for my blog at MichelFortin​.com. The problem is, the blog post be-​​came so long that I felt a need to do either one of two things.

I had to either: edit my post and shrink it down to a bare minimum (preferably around 500 words), or break the article down into several installments.

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With “user-​​driven copy,” the fact is, people can choose what they want, how they want it and when they want it. And that is what’s working really well right now, not because it’s new but because it’s natural.

The progression of the web (regardless if you call it Web 2.0 or not) is simply an extension of how people behave. Businesses and websites are finally waking up. And they’re giving their users what they want, ask for and prefer.

Here’s an example.

In Web 1.0, we were limited by text, graphics and links. When cookies came along, they helped to customize the user’s experience to a degree. But cookies are still limiting. They are static in nature, require more pageviews to make them useful if at all, and as we all know carry risks such as privacy and security issues.

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As you remember from my previous post, I exposed myself to the world for a good cause. And I challenged my friend Armand Morin to see who gets the most “buzz” (comments) to either of our blogs.

The week is not over yet, and I’m a little early. But I wanted to show you a little 3-​​minute video to prove that I wasn’t kidding. Would you like to know who’s winning? So far it’s (hold on tight)…

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