I wanted to do a brief once over of the survey results from 10-05-2006 and grab a few key pieces from it to help us determine where we go with our MimaSM group.

1. MIMA SM Yahoo Group Member visits: We had 15 people take the survey and 10 of these visited the Yahoo Group on at least a weekly basis and 14 at least once per month. 10 out of the 15 people that responded believe their visits will increase with this blog up and active. I believe an active blog with frequent posts will make our traffic grow a great amount both from within our current group and also new visitors. We can socialize the blog and also get found in the search engines. With our own site we can get an analytics account and measure our traffic and not rely on a survey.
2. Topics and focus of group: Education seems to be what everybody craves. Trends, techniques, analytics, news, research, pr, events, link-baiting, local search, how to blend with traditional marketing and more, we are hungry for knowledge. Let’s make this a place to share this type of seo/sem information and alert people to news from around the web.
3. MimaSM activities: Growth, offline meetings, charity and networking. An active blog with discussion and a core group meeting in person are key to this group growing and meeting new people. We have many interested in helping charity organizations. A great idea that somebody had was to have a specific topic or two for meetings and have somebody do a short presentation or show how something is done.

Please share your thoughts on the survey and the direction of our group.