eric rochow : social media handyman

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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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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I check on Facebook 1 or 2 times a day, its not the perfect place for me to be all the time, and now its even less.
I was looking thru my ‘Entourage’ and right above it is this:

Now, I know on most sites, this is a joke, but the button looks like a regular Facebook [...]

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Started by a spur the moment Twitter by Cathleen Ritterreiser,

a few of us who are not going to South by Southwest decided to have a get-together here in NYC. The crew at For Your Imagination came on board, offering their great loft for the event, next Monday, March 10th.
There will also be a virtual get-together [...]

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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’ve been on the road a lot lately, and as I looked at a highway full of traffic, I saw a few semi trucks, thought about the truckers talking to each other on their CB radios and remembered when CB radios first came out.
I would sit in my father’s car after dinner and try to [...]

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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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