Three Books You (and I) Must Read

I must admit that I love to write and dislike reading. Well, I should say that I like reading blogs, magazine articles and the pretty articles in USA TODAY. But it takes a lot for me to sit down and read a book cover-to-cover. My husband makes fun of me for consistently taking business books [...]

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House Sale Update – Are Realtors Using Social Media?

Our house has now been on the market for a month and I’m already tired of having people in my house and keeping it sparkling clean. Our house is listed on Realtor.com and MRIS, but I’m wondering – are Realtors embracing social media?  It seems like such a natural marriage since realtors connect through word [...]

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Yahoo Groups – How Do You Use It?

I must admit that I’ve become a little too comfortable with our Yahoo Group. We have a couple of groups and primarily use it as a document repository, internal calendar and as a listserv. We’ve been using is for a couple of years now. I’ll be honest. I think I’m the only one that uses [...]

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Social Media on the Diane Rehm Show

Today Diane Rehm had a great show on social media featuring Gina Bianchini, Andy Carvin, Josh Bernoff, Manuel Hernandez and Amy Worley. Check out the podcast!

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Twitter – Do You Really Need a Strategy?

There has been an ongoing conversation on one of my listservs discussing how to use Twitter and the comment came up – “Do you really need a strategy for using Twitter”? The author couldn’t understand why there was so much talk about how to use Twitter and proposed that we just use it and not [...]

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Growing Your Social Network – Participation is Key

So you’ve set-up your social network – Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Fickr, Twitter – now what? One of the critical paths to success within a social network is participation. Social networking does not to adhere to the “if you build it, they will come” mentality. You must engage your audience and participate in the conversation. Blog [...]

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GoodDogz.org Online Community In BETA Testing

I’m very excited to let you know that GoodDogz.org is BETA testing our new online NING community! We are in the process of a re-design and the social community will be a huge, new offering for dog lovers. Exciting stuff. Please leave a comment if you would like an invitation to test!

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Social Media Starter Pack for Nonprofits

Network for Good is a great resource for non-profits. I highly recommend checking their site out regularly for new info on how to improve fundraising efforts, online outreach and just plain good ideas. Social media can be somewhat hard to get your head around in terms of effective implementation and knowing what outlet will work [...]

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Career By Choice: Personal Brands are Uncovered Not Created

Megan Fitzgerald has been guiding me through a personal branding process. It’s been really interesting and has taught me a lot about myself and how I am viewed by others. Some bad – some good. All little gold nuggets. If you’re ready to REALLY know what people think of you, I would highly recommend it. [...]

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Tweet This! Breaking Down The Twitter Barrier

I’ve had many conversations lately on whether Twitter has any real business value. It’s a tough sell, but I’ve personally found many great uses for Twitter, both in my business life and with my friends. This is a really great article from doshdosh.com digs into Twitter, provides different points of view and I think sums [...]

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