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Be careful about "Check out my photos on Facebook" Spam

I think there are a lot of great things about Facebook but one aspect is TERRIBLE. This has happened to me twice in a couple of years. I am not particularly active on Facebook. I have about 300 "Facebook Friends." I carefully selected about 12 family members who were not already connected to me by comparing my email address book with Facebook. When I pressed the invite button over 1,200 invites went out and I am immediately got a notice that my Facebook account had been suspended for sending excessive invitation. The yellow highlight below was the message sent (and automatically posted to this blog). 

My suggestion, if you want to add Facebook or Linkedin connections, upload your contacts to a CSV file and compare with your account selecting the ones you want then upload that file to Facebook or Linkedin. You will save yourself potentially getting you account suspended or closed.

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Em Chitty on Brad Meltzer's Decoded about Booth escape

Sister Em did a segment on the History Channel related to Dad's research on John Wilkes Booth.

Her segment is below, the full show is here: http://bit.ly/em-booth

 

How to give Advice

Brendon Burchard is the founder of Experts Academy. This youtube video is about How to give advice. Don’t be put off by the title “How to Be an Advice Guru”, just consider the content. All of us are asked for advice in our everyday lives. He explains a simple 5 step process to give good advice:

How do you give great advice-Five Keys
1. 1:05 to 2:00-Be Present-we need to pay attention to that person, be with them.
2. 2:00 to 3:05-When someone is sharing their story or struggles, acknowledge and appreciate their emotional reality.
3. 3:05 to 4:25-Ask intelligent questions. The right type of questions. The kind of questions that help them figure out their own situation. They talk through their own situation more. Socratic Method serves them the best.
4. 4:25 to 6:50 -People don’t want “the answer”, they want your perspective. They want to know enough of their options. Tell them their options. Tell them stories of what other did in this situation.
5.  6:50 to 9:10 -Tell them. "From my perspective, In my opinion, this is what I would do." Do it boldly. Not cocky, but be direct and relate your perspective with confidence so it helps install confidence in them.

 

Questions? Press the "Call Me" button, fill in your name and your number. Google Voice will dial your phone then my phone me on my direct number.

How does this work?          Get this for your web site.

Facebook bigger than Google in 5 years

Great detailed article about "How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today.

The reason: "Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is today and maybe bigger, because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that."

See the article here

Chrome browser to android phone

A cool small feature of the Google Chrome browser and the android is the ability to send a web page directly to the phone I did a web log entry here.

 

Android compared with iPhone

I really like my Nexus One Google phone which uses the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system. I did a web log entry here.

Fannie Hillman Mid-Year Housing Market Analysis

Fannie Hillman and Associates has a nice mid-year report on the Orlando report. Here is a video blog entry on the most recent edition. The report maybe be downloaded at http://bit.ly/nc-fannie-hillman-mid-year-2010.

 

Camtasia Implementation

I am working on a consulting assignment that involves use of video in blogs, web sites and social media. I am using the new version of Camtasia (version 7). The software is just awesome.

 

Google Search and remembering Bill

I did a Google search on my web log this morning and saw something I had not seen before. it was a reference to web log entry I did three years ago about a homeless man named Bill. I had done that entry and an entry of a youtube video (3,800 hits) mindmap of Bill's telling me about his life. Bill had AIDS and has passed away but he was bright soul and I appreciated knowing him.