To all of the veterans that may get the opportunity to read this blog, I want to say thank you very much. One of my grandfathers was a veteran of a war (I forget which one). He's long gone now, but I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank the men and women that risk their lives fighting in wars that they didn't decide to start. Keep up the good work!

As a follow up to the other post I wrote on this subject, here's how to add your blog to your LinkedIn profile. These instructions are for wordpress blogs.  I do know that this application works only for wordpress blogs and typepad blogs.

1. Log in to LinkedIn

2. Click on the Applications link

3. Click on the wordpress icon

4. Then it's going to ask you for your url or rss feed.

5. Put that information in and you're good to go.

I hope this helps.

Have you been to LinkedIn recently? They've recently added some really cool features. You can add your wordpress blog to your profile.  You can share powerpoint presentations with your network. They have a feature that allows you to share your travel plans so you can easily hook up with your LinkedIn friends in different cities. I think they've finally got the hint that they need more functionality if they want to stay alive in the competitive world that is Web2.0 I think it's great! Go there as soon as possible and add some of these features to your profile! As always if you need help with these, let me know and I'll help you out!

I saw this on another tweep's blog and I thought how cool. I did some digging on google and found the tool. In order for this to work on activerain blogs, you can just go to http://www.twitthis.com and install the bookmarklet to your browser. Then you can easily tweet your blog.

Did you know there was a yellow pages for twitter users?  That's correct.  If you're on twitter, you're probably already listed there.  This site is called twellow and it is just like the yellow pages for twitter users.  They have categories and they allow you to link to your other social networks from your twellow profile.  You don't even have to sign up for another user name, you can just log in with your twitter username and password.  I found out about this from one of my twitter friends, @WendyYBailey on her Webinar where she discusses various Tech Tools.  You can find out about her Webinars by going to http://www.diytechtalk.com

Are you looking for somewhere to play Yugioh? Every Saturday at 1:00 PM you can go play yugioh at The Dragon's Horde. The address is 5615 Memorial Drive, Suite E, Stone Mountain, GA 30083. This is a black owned business. Come out and have some fun! Also, it's on the Marta line so you can save your gas. You can take bus #121 to get there. Here is the map:

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I am becoming addicted to twitter.  It's just too useful of an application.  I know I've mentioned that you can use twitter to follow people in your niche.  You can also use twitter to follow your niche.  There's this cool little website called: http://www.tweetbeep.com that allows you to set up alerts when certain terms are used on twitter.  It works kind of like google alerts.  I have tweetbeep set to alert me whenever someone mentions the words real estate and virtual assistant.  This allows me to beat my competitors to potential clients because as soon as they are thinking about using a virtual assistant I can introduce myself to them and mention that I am a virtual assistant.  This has already led to one inquiry about my service.  We'll see what happens.

I honestly feel like as citizens, we can do more to help the gas shortage here.  We can start by only driving if it's absolutely necessary (i.e to get to work, the doctor, etc.).  When at all possible, please, please, please car pool or use Public Transit.  It's much less expensive to use public transit than it is to try to drive anyway. 

If you must drive, you can use twitter to find out which gas stations have gas before you leave the house.  According to this blog, http://www.buzzbrockway.com/?p=365, you can use the tag #atlgas to find out which stations have gas.  Just go to http://search.twitter.com and type in #atlgas and then you will see all of the information related to the gas shortage. 

The most important thing I can say is please be patient.  My husband actually saw a scuffle break out at one of the gas stations on Memorial Drive yesterday which resulted in a man getting arrested.  Please, please, please keep your cool.  I know driving in Atlanta is tough enough without this added difficulty, but it will pass (eventually).  I just wanted to mention this cool use of social networking technology.

I took a long break from it but I'm back. I have launched my own Internet Radio Program. I haven't nailed down an exact schedule yet so check here for announcements and reminders about my show. I'll be talking about online networking, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, ActiveRain, and whatever else I think of. Click the button listed at the bottom of this blog post for information about the radio program.

Active Rainer's, I have a question for you today.  Are you where your potential customers are?  Let me explain.  It's perfectly okay to hang out at active rain with all of your buddies.  It's all right to hang out at the other real estate forums that are out there.  Let's face it, those people aren't going to be very likely to buy a house from you. 

You need to be sure to spend some time at places like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to get in front of consumers.   The consumers need to know that you have all of this great free content available  for them.  How do you do that?  You get on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook and direct the potential consumers to your activerain content.  This way your potential client feels more comfortable with you.  Once they feel more comfortable with you as a person they will be more likely to buy a house from you. 

Whether your target market consists of first time homebuyers, military personnel, or real estate investors, each niche market has somewhere online they call home.  You need to find this place and become a regular.  This is the best way for you to gain some ground in this difficult market we're in. 

So what are you waiting on?  Head on over to LinkedIn and start Linking, Twitter and start twittering, and facebook (to do whatever it is they call it there).   

 

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