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Cara on November 8th, 2010

How does my favorite  Hot Fuzz clip relate to back surgery & saving puppies? Watch and read on… Recently, I dropped of the face of the earth. Let me rephrase that. I dropped off the face of Google-Earth. After the epidural procedure that I blogged about last summer, I had a  Spinal Fusion surgery on [...]

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Cara on March 10th, 2010

6:00pm: I put dinner in the oven. 6:05: Sit at kitchen island with laptop, Logged into Facebook. Hear that sucking sound? 9:00pm: Jolted by smoke alarm blaring. I hear, “Mommy! Mommy!” My dirty faced kid is starving, homework still not done, husband threatening to pack his bags. Promise to try harder tomorrow.

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Cara on February 26th, 2010

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 was from a great breeder: honest, smart, loyal, fun and strong. All the things that are important in social media. Corny, but true. Black [...]

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Cara on February 13th, 2010

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 [...]

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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. 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. [...]

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Cara on January 30th, 2010

A Blog is not a Newsletter. It is a conversation starter. Here are my top 10 tips:

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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? I think that a Twitter Follow Friday mention is like receiving a Golden Globe nomination. A Follow Friday where you are mentioned with a comment as to WHY you should be followed, is like an Oscar nod. [...]

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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? 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 [...]

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