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Cara on February 26th, 2010

Crash The Original Black Dog
Yes, my company “Black Dog Social Media” was named after a Dave Mathews Band Song. My first  love was a black lab , I named him after DMB’s “Crash Into Me.”

Crash Into Me – Dave Matthews …
Crash was from a great breeder: honest, smart, loyal, fun and strong. All the things that are important in social media.
Corny, but true.
Black Dogs are also the ones not as readily adopted[......]

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Cara on February 13th, 2010

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We Google Buzz users, through behavior shifts, are contributing to defining what’s important in the future of social media. Are we GeeBee’s being monitored by the Google “Others” to see how we organize our followers, what content we respond to, and so on?
I love this post that I found while buzzin’ around my Gmail. I follow Chris Brogan, who commented on Christopher S Penn’s “Awaken Your[......]

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Cara on February 9th, 2010

How cool would it be to tell your boss you aren’t comin’ back to work on Twitter? That’s what Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems did.
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So the next day he tweets that he wants to write a book about the experience and asking his followers to tell what they want him to write about. He even has a hashtag to get the buzz going. #jonathanbook
There’s a problem.
He has over 10,000 followers but is only following (as of to[......]

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Cara on February 6th, 2010

black dog oceanLast year  I lost my job. Ten years at one company and my anniversary gift is unemployment. I immediately knew that all the networking I had done for my job was the key to my next career. Small talk always lead to loyal clients. Monster.com was not the answer. My resume against thousands of others! How would I be recognized?
I shouldn’t have been surprised at the loss. Workload was slow and I had plenty of time to volunteer with the animal [......]

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Cara on January 30th, 2010

cowsA Blog is not a Newsletter.

It is a conversation starter.
1.) Use a catchy title, one that makes someone stop and say “I just gotta read that!” Summarize your point in the title if you can.
2.) Keep it short! 250 Words is best. (400 tops! People are in a hurry and you’re lucky they are reading at all! ) A lot to say? Break it up into a few short posts.  More blogs with fewer words posted through the week will do more for a bu[......]

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Cara on December 15th, 2009

How did you feel when you got your own first Follow Friday mention? Its pretty  good feeling, right?

  • A Follow Friday where you are mentioned with a comment as to WHY you should be followed, is like an Oscar nod.
  • Receiving more followers from a Follow Friday mention, is like taking home the statue. They like me! They really like me!

But Wait!
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Cara on December 2nd, 2009

Have you ever been on Facebook, start a chat and then realize its not them online but their better half on your friend’s wall instead?
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If you are logged in to your spouse’s page (because you don’t have a page of your own), and you see my chat note pop up:

  1. Don’t get nervous and pretend you are your wife.
  2. Don’t pretend you are not online. Please use the chat button to go offline.
  3. Don’t ignore me as I will worr[......]

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Cara on October 19th, 2009

Would you send a birthday card to someone without a personal introduction at the beginning? And then forget to sign your name, assuming they know who you are?
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That’s what its like when you Facebook Friend someone and you don’t say why you are connecting. True, sometimes you know them already so well that you think you don’t have to.
But you should.
When I receive  a Friend Request , sometimes I think, “hmmm I don’t [......]

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Cara on October 6th, 2009

Where is the most unusual  place you have ever posted to Facebook or Twitter?  The bathroom? In line at the store?  In Bed? During a job interview? While driving? In the ambulance? During your mugshot?
How about the Intensive Care Unit?
Phone Rings.   “Cara, Its Dad. ..Dr says it bad… What are your last words to me?” ( I thought people only say that in movies!)
Next thing I know I am on a plane, then head straight to the I.C.U[......]

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Cara on September 7th, 2009

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Rude Awakening #2:
Kids know more about social media than us! (Could this be true? Do you care?)
Here’s my thought process: I’ve been working on launching the Virginia Beach chapter of www.SocialMediaClub.org because I dig their  “If You Know It, Share It” tag line.  Picture events where all walks of life hang out   to selflessly impart skills, with no guise of self-promotion.
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