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Is Your Marketing Relevant?

February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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I’m a fan of silly things – they usually make me smile , but sometimes I end up just scratching my head and wondering why people do silly things when they don’t intend to. And more and more frequently I see people doing sill things in social spaces.
Your community ( or [...]

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Tags: Opinion · Social Media

This is Why Brandie Young ROCKS!

October 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Its the middle of a really busy work day, so obviously I need to check out what my friends are doing on Facebook (I am after all an American). And there is the lovely Brandie Young on my live feed Asking
Like this? Want to do something about homelessness in Austin, San Antonio, New Orleans, Providence, [...]

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Tags: Opinion · Social Media · economy

MisGuided Pride: Facbook and the Holocaust Deniers

May 12th, 2009 · No Comments

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I know that this is my platform for writing about the real estate industry, bt today I just want to use this for a quick rant.
In his blog TechCrunch, Michael Arrington recently wrote a great post about Facebook’s refusal to deny a platform to Holocaust denial. The post is well written and cogent, [...]

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Tags: Opinion

Reporter or Expert? What Are You?

January 24th, 2009 · No Comments

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I found this fascinating quote today:
There are basically two types of bloggers in the world – reporters and experts – and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).John Chow, Reporter vs Expert – Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck [...]

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Twitter PR Strategy

January 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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With the limited budgets of many real estate brokers and agents, Social Media is bcoming a place where you need to be if you want to increase your sphere of influence and obtain new business opportunities.
This chart, has a social media life of its own. Created to explain a [...]

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Tags: Social Media · Technology · Wacky stuff

2009 HAS to be Better

January 9th, 2009 · Comments Off

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2008 was a tough year. And its not one I’m sorry to see leave.
The challenges we face in business are just  part of our business, which is now and has always been cyclical. But  2008 will always be the year that I lost my best friend, suddenly, without explanation (not that [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Conferences · Opinion · Social Media

The Growing Blogosphere

September 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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Technorati recently published their report on the “State of the Blogosphere / 2008″ , the newest version of an annual study which has been digging into trends in blogging since 2004.
I’ll actually be doing more of an analysis of their findings over at BuzzBuilderz, the social media marketing site maintained [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Social Media

Building Your Buzz

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments

 

Social Media is not organized. Its organic and exciting, and confusing to most new participants. Real Estate agents and companies know that they should be Blogging, just like they knew they needed a database in the 19990s and their own web site at the start of this century. And like the databases and the web [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Social Media