The Ashe County Chamber of Commerce gets a brand new Joomla Website
The new Ashe County Chamber of Commerce website is built on a Joomla platform and has tons of goodies built into the site. Overall the design will reflect the season at hand and rotate throughout the year. Click here to visit the Ashe Chamber of Commerce. Some of the major highlights of the site include:
Spring time in Asheville = Motorcycle Heaven
The beautiful weather is back in Asheville so I thought it might be time to take a break from all the website and internet related blog posts. I finally found a few hours of down time to get caught up on some well needed motorcycle repairs. The bike is a 1976 R75/6 BMW. I bought this Airhead about 4 years ago from a shop in Greensboro and I’ve been in love ever since.
So a few days ago I rode up to Acme Motorcycle in Fairview and had someone look over the bike with me to pin point any problematic areas. Overall it’s just in need of a good tune up other than a few oil leaks and squishy forks.
This will be a 3, maybe 4 part posting as I find time to finish the project. The complete bike breakdown and rebuild can be seen on the R75/6 page.
Click here to see the whole bike breakdown up to this point.
Professional Blogger and Social Media Expert in The High Country to hold second round of Social Media Workshops for area businesses.
Sarah Pinnix, founder of HighCountryMomSquad.com, and RealLifeBlog.net is gearing up for a second round of “Talk of the Town” Social Media Marketing Workshops…to be held once again at The Broyhill Inn & Conference Center on the campus of Appalachian State University. The new series begins on Tuesday, April 13th and will be held on the first Tuesday of every month moving forward. Pinnix has worked with brands, companies and tourist destinations on marketing campaigns and social media consulting, including , EA SPORTS Active fitness, Nintendo, Ocean Isle Inn, Little Debbie, Frito Lay/ Subway, Broyhill Inn and Conference Center, Chick-Fil-A of Boone, River House Inn, Great Wolf Lodge, Ubisoft, E.L.F. Cosmetics, Kraft, Small Businesses, and more.
Pinnix, Scott Dickson of Dickson Interactive in Winston-Salem, Doug Uzelac of Broyhill Inn, and web designer Boomer Sassman of Big Boom Design in Asheville will guide business people through intensive, hands-on coaching sessions using Blogs, Facebook and Twitter to build your business and boost revenue. Talk of the Town Workshop was created to give participants a private consulting experience at a fraction of the cost of a private consultant.
The April 13th Workshop will focus on creating a “home base” for your social media footprint, focusing on the power of Blogs/RSS feeds. Interested individuals can find more information and register at www.talkofhtetownworkshop.com, or email sarah@highcountrymomsquad.com.
The first round was a success and consisted of 6 sessions where local area businesses could come to the workshop and learn how to effectively use social media to promote their products and services.
Social Media for the (AWI) Architectural Woodwork Institute comes to the Biltmore Estate
An Event Update…afterthoughts:
For anyone that wants to start tracking a website without using google analytic you might want to check out Trackle.com or you can link to the google analytics page here.
I also mentioned Hubspot who has a a great online tool called a website grader.
Over the next few weeks I’ll add to this list of after thoughts about todays AWI meeting.
Event Host:
Carolinas Chapter AWI
Location:
Inn on Biltmore Estate
1 Antler Hill Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803 US
When:
Friday, February 26, 9:00AM
Phone: 336-887-0700
Our Speaker:
Boomer Sassmann
Join us once again in beautiful Asheville, NC at the Inn on Biltmore Estate for our Membership Meeting. We have a great program lined up for you!
Social Media . . . could you? should you? would you? Read the rest of this entry »
New Joomla!/WordPress Website and Blog launch: Terra Nostra Decor located in Asheville NC
http://www.TerraNostraDecor.com : WordPress Blog
Because the world should have NO boundaries, because Beauty makes NO distinction.
Our inspiration…
Love for world, culture, art and design.
Our Concept…
To offer a global approach to fashion and lifestyle, while following classic and sometimes primitive designs.
Our Commitment…
To be part of one active community while being part of one world.
In Asheville people like to play,and the undeniable need of expression is taken to the individual form. As a result, we have places like Lexington Ave as our runway.
With a very distinctive fashion culture in the community, we at Terra Nostra Decor decided to offer something new: A clothing line that could reflect the metaphoric spirit of Asheville, both urban and cosmopolitan, but with no attachment to one place. Global, adventurous, warm and sexy, simple and comfortable.
A Day on the Internet and Life in this Digital World
I recently had a conversation with a fellow web designer about the sheer magnitude of the internet and how much data we transfer back and forth every day. It really is amazing when you stop to think about how quickly and flawlessly we’re able to send and receive emails, text messages, and other files from one city or country to another without even a hiccup. Even while I write this blog posting I’m transferring multiple gigabytes of data to my server halfway across the country. I can still recall when I was 10 years old my dad brought home a 14.4 Kb modem and we dialed up for the first time ever… boy did I get hooked! So much that the internet has become my career and virtual office. We sure have come a long way over the past fifteen years. One can only fathom what’s to come in the upcoming decade.
Below is an illustration that a friend of mine sent to me that attaches some statistics to all this tweeting and messaging that we take for granted every morning when we boot up our computers. If all these stats are correct then this article makes 900,001 blog posting today.
Baby Boomers and Social Media Awareness
Source: Center for Media Research
According to a new study conducted by CPH Research on behalf of Continuum Crew, Baby Boomer-aged respondents’ anxiety has shifted from the collapse of the economy to the cost of health care. Most significant is the shift in the media consumption of this age group, as the only media activity to rise dramatically was time spent on the Internet.
This is one of several insights on the emergence of the new ‘social media maven’ among Baby Boomers, and indicates that social media has significantly carved out time generally reserved for traditional media.
Baby Boomers/Boomers are defined as the generation born between 1946 and 1964, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Generation Jones, coined by television director Jonathan Pontell, is commonly considered to be those born between 1954 and 1964, representing the younger segment of Boomers. Generation Ike (Ikes) are those born between 1934 and 1945.
Top Findings on anxiety and life events of Boomers are:
- Anxiety about the economy has decreased in the past year (46% indicated it as the issue they were ‘very nervous’ about in 2008); now the issue of most concern is cost of healthcare, as indicated by 49% in 2009.
- For older parents more adult children are moving back home than are leaving it. This is a previously unprecedented finding within this research series, and markedly shows that Boomers’ lives are in transition.
- Boomers are now re-framing the notion of frugal living into the idea of simplicity. Children moving back in with parents, or delaying leaving their parent’s home, is likely having an effect on the family dynamic and household, which may mean an inclination to the return of the extended family structure of the World War II era.
Top findings on media consumption are:
- Ikes and Boomers still use traditional media more than those of Generation Jones or Generation X, but not all Boomers consume media in the same way, the biggest gap being between older and younger Boomers. This is most striking within traditional print media, with high consumption by older Boomers of newspapers and magazines. Read the rest of this entry »
