eric rochow : social media handyman

I found this via Seth Godin, and I love it. Its simple and brilliant. TOMS shoes sells shoes, and when you buy a pair of shoes, he donates a pair of shoes to a needy child. That’s it. Simple.
None of this usual donation-speak fine print, which usually sounds like: for every [...]

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WOW, what fun BKLN 2.0 was last week. A bunch of people came, and what I wanted to happen did. One of the first people there handed her card out to everybody, saying “My company is hiring, send me your resume” Mooney’, local bar, was the perfect place, as people came on their way home [...]

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Fishbowl. I think about this word a lot. I watch/listen to a lot of online media, and I understand how it all works and where to find it. I twitter my friends, we meet and talk 2.0 speak about our new media creations.

But in the back of my head, when watching/listening to all of this, [...]

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The first meeting of the meetup I started: BKLN 2.0, is this Tuesday. A monthly get together for those of us in Brooklyn. Jeff Pulver has created a 2.0 term for it: Real-Time Social Networking; in other words, meeting people in person. This Tuesday at Mooney’s Pub, 353 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn.
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Yet another example of how networking while walking Henry in Prospect Park pays off:
One of my neighbors, Liz Libre, is a graphic designer/printer who does custom note cards, invitations, etc. She has an online store, and I suggested she also have a blog to allow her customers to get to know her better. So she [...]

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I’ve started a web meetup, yet another eric experiment in social networking. Here are the details from the Meetup:
“Some of the best networking I’ve ever done is while walking my dog, Henry, in Prospect Park.
This morning, after I had just met yet one more person who works on web projects, I thought, we all take [...]

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I watched an interview of Michael Wood-Lewis this morning, what he is doing is quite similar to what I am doing in our small town, creating a community online that enhances the in-person community.
Robert Scoble of The Scoble Show interviewed Michael Wood-Lewis about his new online service, Front Porch Forum. He has, for the past [...]

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Last week I did this experiment in social networking, and it has really helped me, and it was real simple to do. I asked people what they thought.
I’m working on creating a green internet video show, now named Real World Green. I shot a test or ‘pilot’ episode, and sent it to 30 friends [...]

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