eric rochow

I’m all about being practical, and most any time I am with social media people, I make the comment that most social media people spend a large part of their time talking to other social media people about how great social media is.
Today in Liz Strauss’ blog, Succesful Blog, she wrote post, The Real-World Social [...]

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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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I’ve been fine-tuning my email signature, trying to find those few simple words, that 5 second elevator pitch, that sums up what I do.

photo by bullish1974
But nothing really seemed to work, I was trying to use phrases and words that I’ve seen other people use, but they all sound vague, and I want to tell [...]

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you might notice a gap in postings here. i’ll explain more later, but we’re back on track here, and we’ll be updating you all on the shows and The Green House.

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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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I was invited by Andrew Lipson and Jeff Pulver to appear on Jeff Pulver’s Blogtv.com show, Pulver.tv. It was great. Thanks for having me.

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I’m a bit delinquent here in posting a recap of my recent talks at VON - Video on the Net and Podcamp Boston, but Steve Garfield took these great picts of me. The text will follow soon.

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I will be speaking at PodCamp Boston tomorrow, expanding on the talk I gave at PodCamp NYC. “What’s it like to produce a Video Podcast?” is the title of my talk. There are over 1,000 people registered. This will be fun.
Natalie Gelman, who was nice enough to make a few intro and outro pieces [...]

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wow. Not sure if there was a seminal moment, one site where Gardenfork was mentioned or linked, but traffic to the site certainly went up nicely in July. Stats are a dark art, and the Webalizer stats are higher than the AWstats, so I’ll go with the lower numbers:

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This is one of my crusades, getting people to have better business cards. Last night, I spoke at an event in the city, and afterward someone who works in advertising introduced theirself to me, and handed me their card.
I looked at it, and I couldn’t read it. The type was real small, like about 6 [...]

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