eric rochow : social media handyman

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.
The Green HouseUploaded by TilzyTV

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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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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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This slipped past me and its a big one to let slip past. I did not realize The Clip Show had done a review of Gardenfork last fall. Some very nice things were said. A big thank you for Jim Kirks and Charlie Baker for putting Gardenfork on.

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My friend Gary of Winelibrary.com sent me this video clip of a talk he gave to a group recently and he made a few good points here.
Gary says “You are your own Brand” and I’ve found this to be very true.

His point about business cards has happened to me many times. Someone wants to [...]

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I am not the most prolific blogger, for some reason it seems to take me a long time to write simple blog posts. I do do a lot of microblogging on Twitter and on Chris Brogan’s blog.
Chris recently posted an invite to ask his readers to tell our readers about his blog. Chris writes and [...]

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My friend Mabel, who is one of the smartest people I know, has launched Tot Swap Shop, a website for people with children who want to give items they no longer need to people who do need them and vice versa.
Mabel bought me lunch several times while developing Tot Swap Shop to get my input [...]

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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.
Here are a [...]

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The Greenhouse has surpassed 100 members. Neat. According to Ning’s stats, the site has had 35,000 views. From what I can tell, more people learned of The Greenhouse from Gardenfork than from Real World Green.
The Greenhouse has been showing up in Google searches. One new member specifically cited a Google search for yogurt cheese [...]

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I set up Twitter Tools a while back to post a daily digest of my Twitters on my blog here. I’ve decided to turn that particular feature of Twitter Tools off. I’ve found that while my Twitters have some relevance, they aren’t great blog posts, and people who subscribed to the blog don’t need their [...]

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