eric rochow

social media handyman, creator of Gardenfork & Real World Green

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Entries from April 2008

Tilzy.tv on The Green House and interviews Eric

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I got to have lunch with Josh Cohen and Jamison Tilsner, creators of the of Tilzy.tv, a guide television on the web . They interviewed me and checked out our new rollout of The Green House. A big thank you to them for this.
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Tags: social media

How many to follow on Twitter?

April 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This has been in the front of my brain for a while, and David Eckoff’s post on the “Twitter dilemma, how many people to follow” has caused me to finally write about it.

To some people, Twitter may seem like a waste of time. I find it useful, to a point. You follow people, they follow [...]

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Tags: social networking

How I Use Email to Build Community or Email is NOT Dead.

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

It seems the prevailing attitude is that Email is Dead. I find the contrary to be true. Email works great for reaching out to regular viewers of Gardenfork and Real World Green, and causes more people to visit our community site, The Greenhouse.
In every episode of Gardenfork and Real World Green, I mention that people [...]

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Tags: community development · social media · social networking

Growing the Greenhouse

April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

In November of last year I started The Greenhouse ( which runs on top of Ning )as place for people who watch Gardenfork and Real World Green to get together. One reason for starting it was as a solution to answering individual viewer mail. I encourage people to ask everyone, not just me.

 
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Tags: social media · social networking

Leverage Facebook to get job offers

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Reading a post on AllFacebook about Career Builder working with Facebook “to help clients run job recruiting through the site”, it reinforced for me the importance of what you put on your social network member pages.
Are you looking for a position as a Project Leader? Then put that in your profile page. Headhunters and employment [...]

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Tags: social networking