eric rochow

I just checked on Gardenfork’s iTunes page, and noticed some new viewer reviews, which are always fun to read. Haven’t gotten any angry comments yet. I can’t really put it into words, but people watch an episode of Gardenfork and there is this ‘connect’ that happens to a lot of those who watch.
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OK, its the day before Thanksgiving, I just walked Henry, and I have to get down to the community garden to do my compost work shift for the Park Slope Food Coop before cleaning the apartment, editing a new episode of Gardenfork, and getting ready to drive upstate.
But then, Chris Brogan sends me this cryptic [...]

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I’ll elaborate on this later, but I’ve launched a community site for viewers of Gardenfork & Real World Green called The Greenhouse.
Its another one of my experiments in social networking and media. I get many emails from viewers, and I thought it be neat to create a destination where viewers could share with each other, [...]

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I’m going to speak at a session at PodcampBoston next month, and I ran across this video of me speaking at PodcampNYC, thought I’d share it again.

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Chris Brogan has posted a good list of social media tools   on his blog. I thought a few were worth commenting on here.

Upcoming is a good site to list your events, AND to find out about events you should be attending. Many times I find out about some cool event after the fact. Today on [...]

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I was at the Colebrook Fair this weekend, and several people sought me out to discuss the recent promotion of the ColebrookNeighbors.com website, powered by ConnectingNeighbors.

People who disagreed with me were probably not going to approach me, but from the comments made by people, the  local realtor did not foster any goodwill by creating this [...]

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If you want to grow a relationship with people in a town, it would help to start with a little research.
Here is an email I just sent out to everyone who subscribes to the Colebrook News, the email newsletter and community website I help run for the town of Colebrook, CT. I’ve put in additional [...]

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I saw Michael Chin demonstrate KickApps suite of widgets that allows a website to have its own version of YouTube, one more way to build community around a site.

Using KickApps you can  create a “video -enabled community with cool, customizable widgets” which looks pretty neat. I can see using this on Gardenfork for viewer submitted [...]

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45 days after Chris Brogan invites me to join Facebook, I finally create my profile there. My initial response is along the lines of what was said on On Digital Media, its more ‘now’ than LinkedIn, which seems more like a static snapshot in time.
Fairly easy to set up, all you have to do is [...]

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At the Church Corn Roast, I ran into many people, one of them, Frank, runs the church website. We talked about the community blog, and how few people comment on it.
I still think, in a small town like this, in person communication is preferred. Email is not the first means of getting someone’s attention. People [...]

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