Cara Mandart’s Blog
I used to be afraid of needles.Years ago there was a blood drive at Prudential Relocation , where I worked. So I signed up. It wasn’t so bad! In time, I had a baby, two back surgeries, foot tendon injections and a foot surgery. Desensitizing complete. Today I received a lower back epidural spinal injection [...]
What to know what Social Media professionals REALLY do for a living? The answer: Justify. Justify that time spent posting and measuring social conversation DOES lead to sales. Justify dollars spent to pay a consultant like me. Justify that social media is not a race, and that the slow lane is better. Justify that there [...]
Does it bother you when you see too much detailed personal banter between friends on Facebook? I’ve seen people post pics of their scars, surgery stitches, details about illnesses, declarations of undying love, even passive aggressive hatred. There is a point when it’s just too much- but then I think, if I was with the [...]
My son is saving my life. Needing his mom at home is the best thing to happen to my near social media burnout. So let’s take a break from my commentary on the world of posers vs authenticity and make spaghetti sauce! Recently my family watched Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution together. It was so powerful [...]
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Running a monthly social media club without being paid, and starting my own social media company is time consuming, but has its benefits. Just when I thought I might run out of steam, I received a call from RecruitCamp saying they were coming to Virginia Beach and asking if I was interested in interviewing for a [...]
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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. linkscolor = “330000″; highlightscolor = “FF6633″; backgroundcolor [...]
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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 [...]
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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