Networking Remains A “Contact Sport”

I really wanted to use a picture of a fight but …………. (smile). With all the hype surrounding Social media as a way to make contacts, it reminds me that it is even more important to meet contacts. As others have properly pointed out, it’s not about numbers, it is about conversions. And, in my [...]

NetWorks! Boise Golfs For Project PATCH

We held our second annual golf scramble this morning at Shadow Valley Golf Course. More on them to follow. One of our members, Greg Gaddis of Thornton Oliver Keller Commercial Real Estate, suggested that instead of the crummy prizes like we gave away last year, how about if each of us who plays were to [...]

5 Essential Gadgets On My iGoogle Home Page

I’m a person that just hates to have to switch back and forth through different windows. For example, typically I would have tabs or windows set up for: Gmail, FaceBook, and TweetDeck. Now I don’t have to. I use my iGoogle page as my command center. I am master of all I survey (smile). Here [...]

ProxiFeed – One More Acorn For My Collection

IMPORTANT: 8/15-09 – This is a great program BUT there is no way of looking at your tweets before they go out. As you will read below, ProxiFeed looks for key words and phrases and then sends out Tweets with links as if you did that yourself. I was just alerted to a Tweet that [...]

Hello Social Media – Buh Bye Networking Groups?

Disclaimer: I am a traditional networker who has been studying social media heavily for the last six months only. And, I am still learning more and more daily. My expectations and feelings about this phenomena change just about as often. As such, certainly what follows is merely my perceptions on this topic at this specific [...]