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My Personal Social Media Strategy

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Integrating the systems:

I have built a system now to manage my personal social media strategy. Enabling me with one click anywhere in my network to update all. If I update in one place, it automatically gets cross-posted to Facebook, Twitter, WordPress Blog(AaronBare.com), SlideShare, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr all with tinyurl’s and links using a combination of TwitterFeed and Feedburner.

Beauty is I can do this all from my iPhone and with the new 3G s coming out with cut/paste and attach. I can ditch the laptop. I can ditch the FlipCam with the new Video integration on the iPhone. No more digital camera needed with 3.2 Megapixel iPhone. No more voice recorder. I could go on and on. If you cannot tell, I am a fan of the iPhone. Technology has turned the corner to make things simpler now, I’m embracing.

If you want to embrace and integrate everything, contact me. I’ll gladly share the method to end the madness of multiple updates.

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Fully-Furnished City North Condo: $375,000

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Great view:
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Fully Furnished:
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Furnished Balcony:

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Upgraded Kitchen:

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Clubhouse:
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Lobby:

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Fitness Center:

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Pool:

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Additional features: Garage size: 2.0, Loan type: Conventional, Seller flexibility: Willing to negotiate, Features: Carpeted Floors, Patio, Spa/Jacuzzi, Clubhouse, Fitness Center, Pool, Golf Course, Gas Range, Controlled Access, Central AC

This condo is in the perfect location with easy access to the best shopping in Phoenix and the 101 and 51 freeways. Experience the luxury life in this fully furnished, 1300 sq ft. home with 2 bedroom/2 bath + bonus room with cherry desk and lots of extras! This top floor condo has great views of the golf course and City North and is conveniently located just around the corner from the elevator!

Experience all this gorgeous condo has to offer with slab granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, upgraded cabinets, W/D with storage, a jetted bathtub, with beautiful tile and upgraded carpet throughout.

The luxury furnishings include gorgeous furniture from Robb & Stucky, a Plasma HDTV, Westin Heavenly Bed & bedding, espresso machine, and lush turkish cotton towels. The pristine community has 2 pools, spas, steam rooms, pool tables, demonstration kitchen, an upscale large workout facility (individual tvs, cardio and free weights), and numerous gas grills for those beautiful Arizona evenings!

We are relocating so now is the perfect time to take advantage of this offer!
Call Aaron (owner) at 602-334-5287 for more details!

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42+ Social Media Marketing Tools

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Junto42 Blog

42+ Social Media Marketing Tools

ToolboxHad a great time yesterday at the MagsUworkshop on “Opening the Emedia Toolbox”. In the session, we reviewed numerous online tools on how to develop social media strategies for personal branding, new revenue streams, search engine optimization, new content initiatives and more for content providers/publishers.  Here’s a taste.  If you have some social media tools you’d like to add, post them in the comments. Special thanks to those who made recommendations.

The Basics

  • LinkedIn – Start the practice of connecting with every business card you receive from contacts.
  • Facebook – Consider a “Facebook Movement” – creating a topic or trend in Facebook outside of your personal or brand fan pages.
  • Twitter – A staple for all of us. Here’s a must read basics of Twitter article.(Courtesy of @mike_stelzner).
  • Google Profile – This is a Gold rush here.  Secure and verify your personal name (i.e., Joe Pulizzi - Content Marketing Expert), before someone else gets it.

Conversations and Listening

Twitter Management

  • Tweetdeck – The ultimate Twitter management system.
  • Hootsuite – Manage multiple twitter accounts from one dashboard.
  • Twitterfeed – Set your RSS feeds to post automatically on Twitter.
  • Twitter Search – Find anything on Twitter real-time. For tagging, use the # (hash) tag (#magsu event)
  • Tweetmeme – Find what’s hot on Twitter.
  • Twilert – Twitter search alerts via email.
  • Yammer – It’s Twitter for inside the company walls (courtesy of Paul Dunay)
  • Tagalus – Directory of Twitter hash tags (courtesy of Kyra Reed)
  • MyTweeple – Manage tweets and followers. Especially good for managing multiple profiles (courtesy of Laurie Dunlop).

Content Sharing

  • delicious – Share your content through bookmarking. Great way to share with teams (courtesy Michelle O’Hagan).
  • Slideshare – Upload your PowerPoint presentations for all to see.
  • YouTube – The #1 video sharing site.
  • Vimeo – an alternative to YouTube
  • Tubemogul – Distribute your video to them and they’ll spread it to other video sharing sites for you.
  • StumbleUpon – Randomly generates content for users by interest area.
  • Digg.com – Content sharing site (great for tech and news).
  • Marketwire/PRWeb – Distribute your content using social media online news releases.
  • Google Custom Search – Set up your own niche search engine on your site or blog.
  • Scribd – Share original writings with others (courtesy Andrew Davis).
  • Squidoo – Set up your own targeted vertical content lens (courtesy Ambal Balakrishnan).

Blogging/CMS Tools

  • WordPress – My recommendation for a blog CMS platform.  Ourcustompublishers.com blog uses WordPress. I also recommend using this CMS for any small-business website (also courtesy Tina Bentley).
  • TypePad – Set up and blog in just a few minutes. This blog uses TypePad (also courtesy of Britton Manasco).
  • Joomla – Another option for blogging/CMS platform.  Joomla users praise it.
  • Technorati – Blog directory.  Find the blogs in your industry so that you know which ones to listen to.
  • IceRocket – Search for blogs and blog posts by category. IceRocket’s Trend Tool will tell you how “hot” your keyword is.
  • Google Blog Search – First rate blog search tool.
  • Tumblr – Post anything quickly and easily.
  • Zemanta – Great for adding additional content and links (courtesy of Drew McLellan).
  • Posterous – Post to a blog by sending an email (courtesy of Richard Shatto).

Measurement

  • Google Analytics – I recommend using Google Analytics even if you have a paid analytics service (courtesy Cim Buser).
  • Hubspot – I’m a customer. I use Hubspot to track the performance of my keywords and competitors’ keywords (courtesy Gretel Going).
  • Website Grader – Hubspot product that will grade your website on a number of analytics and social media indicators.  Great free tool!
  • Alexa – Some high-level information on website traffic for any site.
  • Compete.com – Excellent comparison tool for web analytics-type information.
  • Quantcast – Provides good overview of analytics and site demographics (courtesy of Kyra Reed).
  • Woopra – Analytics on steroids (courtesy of Kyra Reed).

Operations

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Badger Salesperson

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

This is what you do not want to be or experience.

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Managing Me…

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Wayne Dyer’s Simplify + Technology

  • Airplane mode – disconnect from the world
  • Organize your life – manage all my services from my iPhone, everything
  • Unclutter your life — get rid of stuff you no longer need, what you own, owns you
  • Clear your calendar of unwanted and unnecessary activities — learn to say no
  • Be sure to keep your free time free
  • Choose to take time to do things that keep you inspired
  • Return to the simplicity of nature — spend time outdoors
  • Keep a distance between you and your critics
  • Take some time for your health
  • Don’t forget to play
  • Slow down – relax sailing or at the lake
  • Remove any debts from your life
  • Take your attention off what everything costs, but instead focus on their values
  • Remember your spirit — who you really are, find your brand
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COMING SOON!

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Buzz Mouth is working out.   Shaping up for launch.  Yet, for now, send us an email at bizdev@buzzmouth.com to learn more about our products.   Thanks!

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How long do people watch video online?

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Video play time...

Source: Tube Mogul; 100 million streams

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Live Scribe and iPhones

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Another idea:

Simply use notes and record.  The recording then can be found by the highlighted notes, exactly like it works with Live Scribe.   Another blog had this post below.

http://www.iphonematters.com/article/livescribe_and_iphone_partnership_322/

Remember the D5 tech convention? If so you may also remember a product created by Livescribe called the Smartpen. If not let me fill you in.

Livescribe has launched a pen which is similar to some digital pens out there today, except it is better. The Smartpen which will come out in quarter 1 of 2008, will be able to visually record your notes so they can be viewed on a computer. Also, it records audio. When it combines these to functions, magic occurs. If I were to go to a class and sit through a lecture taking notes on paper, I may not remember what context I took those notes under. Problem solved! Because now with my smartpen, I can just tap on part of my notes and it will replay the audio that was recorded at the time I was writing those precise words. There are many other awesome functions it can perform.

My idea is that Apple partners with, or at least allows Livescribe to develop iPhone integration. Pages may be uploaded, and then stored on the phone for later viewing without a computer. Imagine note taking on real paper getting transferred into notes on the iPhone automatically without use of the phone. Reviewing a lecture would be easy both on the phone and with the pen. This mobile version could email the pages to others immediately after captured on paper. There are so many possibilities with a partnership like this.  Apple, Livescribe, please make it happen!

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The New Business Schools

Monday, June 1st, 2009

New Business Schools, some legit, all special places it appears to me…

No, not Harvard, Wharton or Chicago.   I’m talking global places with unique curriculum.  Executive Education to 3-4 year programs.

Wizard Academy Austin

Kaos Pilots Netherlands

Hyper Island Sweden

Thunderbird Global

IIT Chicago

d.school Stanford

Rhode Island School of Design

Parsons NYC

Full Sail

All of these have blog sites with varying degrees of design, appears to a trend to focus on content not design.   Interesting for a design schools.

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