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social media

Charlottesville CBS19 is all over Facebook, and I like it

July 31, 2009

I’ve lived in the Charlottesville area for 20 years now.  During that entire 20 years, NBC29 has always been my go-to source for local news.  This is due in large part to the fact that NBC29 was the ONLY choice for local news until fairly recently.  With the addition of stations at the Newsplex, things [...]

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The NFL asks the question– “To tweet, or not to tweet?”

July 13, 2009

I’m a big New York Jets fan.
I’m not a crazy, irrational, talk-about-the-team-in-the-first-person, Jets fan, but I definitely a big fan.  Accordingly, one of the blogs that I like to frequent is TheJetsBlog.com.  It gives daily news and information about the Jets; which is cool, especially that I live in Virginia.
A recent post on the site [...]

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The book that changed my life, and this blog. . .

June 28, 2009

I read a lot.  I haven’t read a fiction book in a long time, but I still read a lot of non-fiction, especially business books.
Recently, I read Ignore Everybody, by well-known marketer/blogger Hugh MacLeod (you can order it here).  I first came across Hugh’s work when I first started blogging.  He has an awesome blog [...]

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Social Media for association executives

March 25, 2009

This past Sunday, I gave a presentation at the National Association of REALTORS Association Executive Institute.  The subject of my presentation was, you guessed it–  social media.
Association executives face challenges that just don’t exist for the individual who uses social media.  They have to consider the wants and needs of an entire group of individuals.  [...]

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CBS-19 Features a Fluvanna County Blogger

March 11, 2009

Social media works in strange ways, even locally. Here’s a very recent example. . .
My wife, Kari and I, are both on Twitter (@STRduo and @RealEstateZebra). Yesterday, she came across a tweet from fellow Charlottesville area resident and blogger, Marijean Jaggers.  Kari sent me the link in the tweet, which took me to [...]

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The Central Virginian does a great job covering my social media presentation

March 10, 2009

One of the folks who attened my social media presentation a few weeks ago was Lee Francis.  Lee is a writer for The Central Virginian.  He was there to not only learn, but to cover the event for the paper.  Well, a few days ago, I got to see the fruits of his labor when [...]

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Here’s the live video from my community social media presentation

March 1, 2009

My presentation last Wednesday went very well.  Better than I anticipated, in fact.  The audience was filled with about 20 local residents, and everyone was very interested in learning more about using social media.
I can’t say enough about how great everyone in the audience was during the presentations.  We had so many great questions, we [...]

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Fluvanna County school officials missed out on an opportunity to engage, but it doesn’t have to be that way. . .

February 16, 2009

Some people are probably wondering what I plan on talking about during my social media presentation next week. One of the things that I mentioned in my first post was how social media could be very beneficial to school officials, even right here in little ol’ Fluvanna. One of the examples I will [...]

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Answering the question, “What is Social Media?”

February 9, 2009

I’ve started sending out invites to folks for my seminar on social media for community organizations later this month.  Almost immediately, I received a response from someone who asked the question,
“Would you please define social media so that we’re on the same page?”
DUH!
I totally overlooked the fact that for many of the people I am [...]

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