It's Official

According to Influential Interactive Marketing, as of Monday, August 21st, 2006, Social Media Optimization (SMO) is now a term in Wikipedia.

Here are a few indicators of the life that SMO is alive and well:

1. 53 tags on del.icio.us (to the original post)
   
2. 8 diggs on Digg.com (plus more for other posts on the subject)
3. 37 linked blog posts according to Technorati (to the original post)
4. 139 promotions on New PR (to the original post)
5. 18 votes on Netscape (to 16 Rules post on toprank)
6. 6 marks on Marktd (to 16 Rules post on toprank)
7. New page added to The New PR Wiki
8. New Wikipedia article on "Social Media Optimization"
9. Corresponding update to Wikipedia page on "SMO"