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Notes for the REvolution Road – Friending Facebook

Facebook is a great place to maintain existing relationships and make connections. Facebook will alert you to when your sphere of influence experiences major life changes such as engagement, marriage, birth of a child, etc. Facebook also provides a forum to join groups or fan pages based upon your personal and professional interests and also [...]

Social Media and Marathons… Two Similar Beasts to Conquer

I just finished my very first marathon yesterday. I figured I’d do it big, so I joined in the 40th New York Marathon.  Through this physically painful and, much to my surprise, mentally challenging task, I realized running marathons and getting realtors started with social media have a lot in common.
While you may be thinking [...]

What Does FREE Really Mean in the Marketplace? (Or: Why People Don't Trust "Free")

I’ve been wrestling with a moral and business dilemma the past few weeks as I’ve prepared to go out into the world and teach people social media and technology tips for free. Oddly enough, the dilemma didn’t begin while planning the course, it’s locations or logistics… it began when I saw that people who needed [...]

A Rising Tide Raises All Ships – Don't Let Social Media Sink You

In times of plenty we’re all quick to share our knowledge, information and surplus with those around us, but as times of famine (aka – recession) draw upon us, we hoard our knowledge and use it as a bargaining tool, a method of separating ourselves from others and a way to intimidate the competition.
This is [...]

What to Do When a Twelve Year Old Knows More than You…

This seems to happen more and more now, the barely able to see over the counter kid  on the street is using some cool new app, checking out a website, using new lingo soon to be adopted by the masses… and I stand there feeling out of the mix and behind the times. My inner [...]