I’ve Renewed My Nerd Certification - I’m Officially On Facebook and Twitter

August 5th, 2008

I think I feel sick right now. It’s 11:39 p.m., on a Tuesday night. My cat is nudging me sleepily, occasionally walking on my keyboard, and trying to petition me to come to bed. I’m in need of some water, ice cold water, I think. On advice from a vendor and former OSU student of mine, I’ve signed up with Twitter. In relation to another OSU student of mine, I’ve signed up with Facebook.

Yes, you can now officially follow me and receive updates via the Web, email and yes, even your phone in the event you have nothing else better to do via this address: www.twitter.com/bizresearchlmt . In the event I get some crazy stalkers, I can always opt out of the public system, and go for locked updates to those I approve.

I have noted in the past month that all of my speaker colleagues who are leaders in the search marketing industry are well populated in Facebook. How many friends can you get? Second, do you really want to have all of your “friends” and “family” in your professional Facebook profile? Likely, not, right? mySpace is apparently working on this issue, so you can segment, but surely Facebook will catch on, so you don’t have to create three separate profiles, but instead could “segment” your profile access to various audience members.

As a result of pregnancy, I’ve become a true insomniac unable to fall asleep until well after Craig Fergusen, or if I do, I’m up by 4 a.m. A very productive use of your insomnia is to work on your Facebook profile, and/or your Twitter updates in the event people have forgotten about you in recent days, weeks or months. I’m now more connected to my colleagues than ever, and to a few friends that I want to be this connected with. I’ve decided that this is the real reason that Starbucks sales are down, not the economy or producing stores with more efficient sales and revenue. It’s really that we no longer need to get together for coffee to catch up, because we’re all texting and sending SMS messages via our devices, to the Web, and getting updates in various formats (Web, email and text).

I don’t know about you, but I need human contact. I also need to be away from various connectivity devices at times, to disconnect 100%, shut down completely and focus on the simple things in life, like a dog walk, with a stray cat named Bentley following me as of lately.

I need to talk to my neighbors, and leave the cell phone at home. I need to get together with my clients, in person, and understand their business better. But in the meantime, I’m now 21st century, 2008 ready, and am connected to colleagues of mine via Facebook and Twitter. I will say this, I’m updated on their status, colleagues are checking in with me moreso, and leads are increasing.

So, get connected on both applications, up your learning curve (c’mon you know it’s been a while since you learned anything), set up your mobile devices to send notice updates to the Web, and turn off your television set. You’re sick of those advertisements for McCain and Obama anyway. And it’s repeat season pretty much otherwise. You can say you know one more tool, or two in this case. One more way we can all stay connected in this crazy world, and one less way we can stay productive potentially. But if you do listen to the news, Twitter and Facebook are making national news on the way to develop your business and stay connected.

I’m in need of some water, and Larry King is not to be missed tonight. Keeping humor intact - I’m done online for the day and night!

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Antarctica Cruise Pictures: Flickr Photos Up, Titles & Tags

December 21st, 2007

Antarctica Cruise Pictures & Flickr Photos Are Up, Titled & Tagged
by Laura Thieme

I’m still in Buenos Aires meeting with techology team, however, I’ve posted Flickr photos from the Antarctica cruise that you might want to see. I was there to view climate change in the global warming state of meltdown. It’s pretty amazing on many fronts, both in terms of massive melting taking place on glaciers, as well as increased snowfall with increased humidity in the air and warmer temperatures, and icebergs as large as 30 miles long (B-15), which I blogged about a year ago. Check out the Flickr photos from Antarctica and let me know which ones are your favorites. The 10,000 view wins two 16 x 20 photo enlargements of their choice. Favorites include Antarctica penguins and more.

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Bizresearch’s Expeditions on Flickr

November 12th, 2007

Bizresearch on Flickr: Photo Compilation of Travels
by Laura Thieme

As I prepare for the voyage to Antarctica, you can imagine that I have a list of equipment to inventory including cameras, camcorders, tripods, satellite phones and much more. I’ve reviewed blogs, video blogs, pictures and will continue to see what others have done to tell their story about their trip to Antarctica.

For those interested in Bizresearch’s photography from conferences, sponsored events, client expeditions, and even a couple of personal photos of my dog and cat, visit www.flickr.com/photos/bizresearch

If you really want to delve into the photography element of our travels around the world, watch the slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bizresearch/show/

I’m working on organizing the files by “sets”, so it’s clear what’s for clients and what’s for conferences or other events. Of course, I’ll create a set for Antarctica and make sure I’ve got the equipment to automatically upload to this site and many others.

I’m blogging on a near daily basis on www.LauraThieme.com about the Antarctica voyage. Tune in there for more info.

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