eric rochow

I’m not a great text blogger, I’m just not good at it. So I’ve decided to talk about social media the way I do best, and that is with video. This is the first of my new video blog posts of how people and companies use social media. The focus of many of these videos [...]

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I get emails all the time from people want to use Real World Green and Gardenfork videos, but this one stood out yesterday.

The big red flag for me here was the person did not say what company he worked for, and in his signature line, it didn’t list the company either. It did list his [...]

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Just heard about SocialDevCampChicago from TechCocktail, and I have signed up for a slot to talk about “What’s it like to create and manage a niche social network” . I’ll talk about how I decided to create The Green House, and what I’ve found works and what doesn’t, and more as I think about what [...]

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I received an email from Plaxo today, sent by Jim XXXX. Wanting me to connect with him on Pulse. I’m sure you get these as well.
Reading this email today, I am thinking about several things that could improve this message. In this latest installment of “What Eric Thinks”, here’s what I think.

Like you, I meet [...]

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Twitter spam, I get at least one of these a day, and I decided to take a minute here to do the “How Eric Sees It” on the use of Twitter as a tool to get out your message, without annoying people.
Let’s step thru my thoughts when I got this email from Twitter:

Here’s a big [...]

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I bought a new bike helmet from Performance Bicycle’s website this week. The site experience was pretty good, no glaring human interface flaws.
Going thru the checkout, I unchecked any button that offered to add me to an email list of any sort.
And in the special instructions text box, i wrote:
Please do not add my name [...]

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Just wanted to share this with you, as I think its pretty cool. On the iTunes hobby page Gardenfork is up there with some of the big wheels of the video podcast world, and it ranked #4 of all hobby podcasts. Right alongside our friends from The Wood Whisperer. Neat.

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