Saturday, July 31, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The 4th
Another post I borrowed from Brooke :)
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Some of you may know, I've claimed the 4th to be my favorite holiday. This may look like the typical Fourth...
But we were actually in CANADA. I am not sure you can call our holiday patriotic, but it was actually a dream vacation.
We drove 5.5 hours to Montreal:
Where we ate crepes for lunch at an outdoor restaurant with a live Jazz band.
And we shopped.
The cobblestone streets reminded me of Europe.
How many people does it take to rent a bike? In my defense, I don't read French.
We loved Montreal, but we stayed an hour and half away in the mountains of Mont Tremblant. We rented a condo, swam, hiked, BBQ'd, played games, and read. I want to buy 5 Crowns (the game).
The first night we visited Mont Tremblant Village and went to a French band's free concert (I guess they are quite big there, we were not the only fans).
I often had my camera on, so you know what the means . . . 
(Okay so I loved our pictures. You can see all of Natalie's here and mine here).
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Some of you may know, I've claimed the 4th to be my favorite holiday. This may look like the typical Fourth...
But we were actually in CANADA. I am not sure you can call our holiday patriotic, but it was actually a dream vacation.We drove 5.5 hours to Montreal:
Where we ate crepes for lunch at an outdoor restaurant with a live Jazz band.
And we shopped.
The cobblestone streets reminded me of Europe. |
We loved Montreal, but we stayed an hour and half away in the mountains of Mont Tremblant. We rented a condo, swam, hiked, BBQ'd, played games, and read. I want to buy 5 Crowns (the game).
The first night we visited Mont Tremblant Village and went to a French band's free concert (I guess they are quite big there, we were not the only fans).
We went back to the Village the next day to hike to the top of the mountain. 
Nishan Wilde, Makenzie Peterson, Austin Walters, Brian Rich, Me, Derek, Natalie Williams (who put it together).
And we rested after.
I often had my camera on, so you know what the means . . . 
(Okay so I loved our pictures. You can see all of Natalie's here and mine here).
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
How I Became a Spammer
I decided to get more serious about Twitter. Since I've been playing around with my branding and Web 2.0 marketing ideas, I thought it would be a good idea to build up a strong following.
If you perform a Google search for "how to get more followers on twitter", you'll find a long list of options. I clicked on the first 20 results and began to explore. After a quick review of all of them, I decided to try Twiends and TweetAdder. Here's what happened.
Twiends is an interesting program that gives you virtual credits for following other users, and pays virtual credits when other users follow you. This was extremely effective. For every person you follow on Twiends, you get a follower. That's a great ratio, considering that the industry average is about 33% (for every 3 people you add, 1 follows you back).
TweetAdder costs money, but is very professional (I'm using the trial version). It takes more of the spam approach - add as many people as Twitter will allow you in one day, analyze who is following you back, automatically unfollow those who aren't following you. There's a lot of powerful functionality here. I'll definitely be exploring this more.
So what results did I see? I started last night with 68 followers. As of this post, I have 253 followers. By spending a few hours researching and adding, I gained 185 followers in one night.
I'm going to continue aggressively using these tools for a week or so, until I get 1,100 followers. At that point, I'll clean up my following list (which will likely cause me to lose followers) and continue spreading content. This is a fun little experiment.
If you perform a Google search for "how to get more followers on twitter", you'll find a long list of options. I clicked on the first 20 results and began to explore. After a quick review of all of them, I decided to try Twiends and TweetAdder. Here's what happened.
Twiends is an interesting program that gives you virtual credits for following other users, and pays virtual credits when other users follow you. This was extremely effective. For every person you follow on Twiends, you get a follower. That's a great ratio, considering that the industry average is about 33% (for every 3 people you add, 1 follows you back).
TweetAdder costs money, but is very professional (I'm using the trial version). It takes more of the spam approach - add as many people as Twitter will allow you in one day, analyze who is following you back, automatically unfollow those who aren't following you. There's a lot of powerful functionality here. I'll definitely be exploring this more.
So what results did I see? I started last night with 68 followers. As of this post, I have 253 followers. By spending a few hours researching and adding, I gained 185 followers in one night.
I'm going to continue aggressively using these tools for a week or so, until I get 1,100 followers. At that point, I'll clean up my following list (which will likely cause me to lose followers) and continue spreading content. This is a fun little experiment.
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