Timeless Timeline

I cannot believe it is 2012 already.  I am big on even-numbered years probably because I was born in one according to the “experts”. So here we are a new year and a new look to Facebook.  How many of you have the new Timeline?  How many of you like the new Timeline? How many of you would like to kick Facebook in the ass for one more change?

I have had Timeline since many of us could hack it through various different sites. Fortunately it was an alleged “legal” hack if there is such a thing so I didn’t have to look quite like this:

Besides I do not like to sweat.

I happen to love Timeline because it is timeless.  I can go back to the date I was conceived I suppose and make it part of my history by year, but then you would know how old I am and I don’t want you to know that.

I love the GREAT BIG PICTURES – and last week Mike Mueller nominated my cover picture as the best one he has ever seen. (if you are not a friend of his, you have to subscribe and it’s worth it).  Now that is an honor.

Here is the exact quote:

Stop Sending Snail Mail Now!

 

 

Have you been running around in circles trying to figure out a way to get the word out about an event you or your company are having?  Have you used traditional email blasts over and over again with not very impressive results? Are you dialing for RSVP’s?  Are you tired of spending hours of your precious time doing these things when you could be doing listing, selling and/or negotiations that put money in your pocket?

I bet you have never considered using an event service such as Eventbrite.  You type in a few words and hit send and the site handles the rest.  You can customize the event and send it out all neatly packaged in a format to match what you are doing.

AND it’s FREE as long as the event you are creating is also FREE!

Who doesn’t love FREE?

Who doesn’t like setting up an event in 3 minutes too?

I am President Elect for the Tampa Women’s Council of Realtors.  We are going to hold monthly tech/social media roundtables and I have already seen what using Eventbrite can do to make my work easier.  Invitees can accept or decline as soon as they open an invite and this will just make everyone’s life simpler all the way around.

Creating events for buyers and sellers to get your name or your company name (Mr/Ms Broker) is vital in this market.

We all know snail mail gets tossed in the trash can before it gets read and snail mail doesn’t fall into my favorite category of FREE.

Try it – I guarantee you will like it or I will give you your money back-oh that’s right it is FREE!

 

 

JUST SAY NO TO SNAIL MAIL!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update on the Time Machine

http://mashable.com/2011/09/26/facebook-updates-timeline-to-avoid-outing-unfrienders/

Facebook fixed the bug – darn now I can not see who outed me…..

Carole

Facebook Builds a Time Machine

 

Ever since I saw the movie “The Time Machine” I have wanted to travel back in time.  It seems that Facebook has now decided to give us a chance to do that.

Coming soon to a computer screen near you……….”Timeline the  Movie”.

I actually have had the Timeline screen since last Friday.  I followed the directions on quasi-hacking that I found on mashable.com and went for it.  I like it.  It’s soothing…..what did you expect me to say?  I am 100% girlie and to me the page is going to  appeal to the feminine form because it is pastel.  And my friends wait until you see the size of your posted photos now.

As soon as I created (quasi-hacked) the application I went back in time.  Everything is there for you to see – including the old drama of course.  There are benefits.  The way Facebook is now our posts all go into some dead zone and no matter how magnificent the post is, no one can seem to penetrate that dead zone.

This really is an adventure into the future because while at first your Timeline will be auto-generated eventually you will go to your very own private activity log and view everything you ever shared since you hopped on the Facebook train.  How many times have you been told nothing ever goes away on the Internet????  Well here comes the proof.

Today the Daily Mail in the UK published one of their interpretations of the Timeline writing that in their opinion we will all be able to figure out who has un-friended us with this ability to travel into our past.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2041574/Facebook-New-feature-allow-users-know-doesnt-like-them.html?ITO=1490

I suppose some people with nothing exciting going on in their lives might travel back and forth to figure this out.  To me that is an entire waste of time and I don’t particularly care who did hit the X on me.

One thing I can say with enthusiasm about this is that the ticker is gone – I don’t like the ticker, I find the movement distracting IMHO.

I see change this way – this is our brain when we embrace change:

 

And this is our brain when we don’t embrace change:

 

Your choice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always Leave ‘Em Laughing

The devil made me write this blog, and re-post it here.  I get a lot of comments on it, and I have no problem with anyone taking the idea changing it out for your market and using it because I believe in writing with humor. If you like it, use it.  WARNING: This blog post is NOT for the faint of heart

I call it “The Top 10 Reasons I Won’t Show You a Foreclosed Home in Tampa” (Tampa being the keyword in the headline that will get this blog to shop up on a Google search.).

I will show you foreclosed homes if you really insist and twist my arm and  I will bring with me my foreclosure-ready survival kit and you need to bring yours as I have written about below.

10.  The grass, if you can call it that, will be as tall as an elephant’s eye and the landscaping that was there will be growing across the sidewalks making it difficult to walk to the entry door.  Then there is the possibility that there may be living things in that overgrown grass and landscaping.  I suggest wearing waders when approaching any such growth, so pack them or bring them with you.

9.  Once the door is finally opened you will dodge mud wasp nests and spider webs always keeping in mind we have two dangerous spiders that like vacant houses – the Black Widow who spins her web from the bushes to the house and the Brown Recluse who likes to hide behind the lock boxes.  I will give you the code and a can of spider spray, you can yell to me when it is safe to come into the house after you check for spiders.

8.  The power and the water have been turned off, the bank expects me to pay to have them turned on, I think the lender who will make a lot of money on the deal should turn everything on, not me.  Therefore this house will be dark, musty and hot.  I will provide hand held fans and flashlights and nose plugs if needed.

7.  Now here is the really tricky reason I really don’t want to go into a vacant, foreclosed home-we don’t know if it is really vacant.  I suggest loudly knocking on the door as well as yelling as you enter before waving me in, because vacant homes have been known to have residents.  I will arm you with pepper spray.

6.  Now that you have assessed no humans live in this home, please be aware critters may have taken up residence.  If one window has been left open, one door, one dryer vent from the clothes dryer the owners stole there could be critters.  I will provide more pepper spray.

5.  Now that you have assessed the fact that there are no human or animal critters living in this house, look down.  That crunching sound under your feet is not a trail of potato chips, in Florida due to the humidity, they would not crunch.  Those are our state bird – the Palmetto bug also known as the largest flying cockroach known to man.  I have seen some as big as the State of Rhode Island.  Keep the waders on please.

4.  Keeping those flashlights on please train them to the wood moldings and anything else that is wood and I will at this time hand out magnifying glasses so you can get down on your hands and knees and look for sawdust piles.  If you see any then you will know that these are definitive signs of termites or other wood destroying organisms.  Nasty!

3. Please also train your flashlights to the corners of the ceilings in the bathrooms and laundry rooms where you might find mold lurking.  The advice by officials of the power company here is to crack one window on a vacant home so mold doesn’t develop – I guess they would rather have vermin move in than mold.   If there is a swimming pool be advised we do not have green pool paint here that is an overgrowth of algae and who knows what lies on the bottom of that mess.

2.  I know as you walk through these homes you will have noticed that there are no appliances, kitchen cabinets, plumbing fixtures or lighting fixtures.  That’s okay you want to re-design your new dream home to your perspective of what is acceptable.  If you purchase a foreclosure and get all the above cleaned up, killed, and repainted with everything brand spanking new here is the #1 reason I will not sell YOU a foreclosed home.

1.  You may not actually own it.  That’s right after plunking down all that money, doing all that work to make it YOUR dream home YOU MAY NOT ACTUALLY OWN IT and I don’t want to be sued.

(I hope you are smiling – and while I wrote it as tongue-in-cheek, I seriously do not show these properties. I let Larry, my husband, show them, he wears Texas boots I wear sandals.  My friend, Teresa Boardman, in Minnesota wrote me about sliding on ice in vacant homes after reading my blog.)

I apologize for the bug….when I originally wrote this the bug actually got people to read what I wrote-weird huh?

As a last suggestion – as much as I can I use “Greater Tampa Bay” or “Tampa Area” in my headlines.  People are searching by cities – your area is your keyword in your headline.  I hope you all come back

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why I Love My Social Media Experts (like Ross Hair)

I just returned from the Florida Realtor Convention and it was very interesting.  I actually had people come up to me and tell me that they follow me on Facebook,LinkedIn and on this blog.  It’s humbling to have someone recognize you by name and I feel honored.

I saw many friends I have known for a long, long time and met many new and wonderful people.  You just never know where connections will lead down the road. I spent as much time as I could with people who had questions on social media both face to face in the hallways or in the back of the room.  On Saturday I was the “expert” on Social Media in the Business Trends and Technology presentation, another honor and it has made my phone ring. Read more..

Join “The Winner Takes It All” Club

This is a big week in real estate in Florida.  It’s ReBAR camp followed by the Florida Realtor’s State Convention. It will be a huge learning experience and I will come home totally psyched and tired in need of oxygen.

 

I hope that all readers here attend anything and everything possible wherever you live because things seem to change every day.  This is the perfect time to take any classes you have been too busy to take.  Many classes are discounted down because our boards understand money is tight. Search them out.

My state convention brings in the cream of the crop when it comes to social media advice.  I know most of them personally which is something else you should concentrate on doing.  Meet the experts, because in knowing them and reminding them you know each other, you can reach out to them and get answers to questions you may have. Read more..

Crossing the Generational Divide in Communication

I was asked to do a presentation to our local Rotary Club on social media networking, and when I asked what the median age of the group is, I was told late middle aged.  Yes, I rolled my eyes because I study generational public speaking/selling and I knew I was being thrown to the wolves and was about to be devoured.  Not only is this the age group that rolls their collective eyes at social media but we live out in the country where social media is thought of as evil if thought of at all.

Toyota knows this group – just watch their new commercial with the girl who has over 600 friends on Facebook and is thrilled her parents have 19.  They must be living a very boring life in her mind and she is thrilled she got them on Facebook.  They obviously did it for her to shut her up because the ad is all about the fun they are having driving all over the place in their new Toyota like middle aged party animals. Toyota understands generational communication.

I, myself, am a Baby Boomer with the brains and tech skills of a Generation Y person.  5 -6 years ago I had no desire to be where I am today, then I took a course in generational selling and I did everything I learned in that course. Read more..

The Really Sweet Re-Tweet

OK people you are on Twitter and you find this incredible thing I tweeted and you know you just have to share it, so you type into your tweet space RT: @socialpapillon (and you copy and paste my tweet).

For example, I tweeted that Facebook was adding an unlike button (which of course is just me playing with everyone).  WOWZA that’s big news so your re-tweet looks like this:

RT: @socialpapillon Facebook is adding an unlike button.

Again WOWZA only you just wowwed socialpapillon (which is my twitter acct for this blog).  You did not impress your followers with this WOWZA you impressed them with my WOWZA.

That being the case let’s look at how to impress your followers! Read more..

Dear Facebook I Don’t Care Who’s Peeping at Me

I don’t, I know that is a malware application  & I hit the report button on all these things.  I can usually smell a spam scam a mile away.  I really and truly have only opened one of these which made me feel like a total jackass and I don’t like that feeling.

If you have ever had that same jackass moment or you think you may have one down the road, let’s talk about how to get rid of this cr*p.

Jackass moments begin once you have clicked a link and then clicked “allow” on the link that opens.  Welcome to your jackass adventure.

The keywords to remember are these: NEVER CLICK ALLOW. Read more..

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