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Professional Blogger and Social Media Expert in The High Country to hold second round of Social Media Workshops for area businesses.

boomer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:32:01 +0000

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.

Doug Uzelac, General Manager of The Broyhill Inn & Conference Center and host of the workshop series states, “Social Media Marketing is such a fast growing segment and it is the Broyhill Inn’s pleasure to be to be able to host these very informative sessions. I would greatly recommend folks that have an interest in increasing their social media knowledge to attend.”

Vicki Stevens, Marketing Manager for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare System adds, “The Talk of the Town series provided phenomenal insight to the world of social media and assisted our organization in establishing a new presence with our audience. I highly recommend the series!”

Julie Hayes from the NC Christmas Tree Association also adds, “The Talk of the Town workshops showed us what Social Media is, gave helpful hints, and provided resources to get us started.”

Mast General Store also comments, “The Talk of the Town Series helped us understand the power of social media and how we might use it to start a conversation with our customers. We found the interaction with Sarah, Boomer, and Scott to be informative and refreshing and also enjoyed brainstorming ideas with our fellow classmates. Our Facebook page has grown by leaps and bounds – surpassing all of our expectations, and it is a ready resource to convey timely happenings.”

These workshops cover such hot-button topics as Website Design & Development, Search Engines, Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Analytics and much more. Success stories abound as attendee, Mast General Store has nearly 5,500 Facebook fans as we write this. The NC Christmas Tree Association is experiencing online traffic growth on their site and the Appalachian Regional Healthcare System is setting up multiple Facebook pages, writing social media policies and growing followers on Twitter.

For more information, please visit: http://talkofthetownworkshop.com

Please contact Scott Dickson at 336.331.2185 or email sdickson@dicksoninteractive.com

to arrange interviews and to inquire further.

Professional Blogger and Social Media Expert in The High Country

Social Media for the (AWI) Architectural Woodwork Institute comes to the Biltmore Estate

boomer — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:56:46 +0000

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?

Social Media platforms build buzz, boost business and serve small businesses as low-cost/no-cost marketing tools. Small business owners need to understand how these tools strategically serve and support small business first so they best implement social media strategies to sell products and/or services.

Hand-outs for the day:

Social Media Terminology = http://bigboomdesign.com/AWI/SocialMediaTermsfromWikipedia.pdf

Website Terminology = http://bigboomdesign.com/AWI/WebsiteTerminology.pdf

Social Media Map = http://bigboomdesign.com/AWI/social-media-map.pdf

Woodworker Social Media Links:

Woodworkers on Twitter = http://www.twibes.com/woodworking/twitter-list

Top 49 Woodworking Blogs = http://www.networkedblogs.com/topic/woodworking/

Sawdust Soup = http://www.sawdustsoup.com/group/socialmediaforwoodworkers

A Day on the Internet and Life in this Digital World

boomer — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:40:40 +0000

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.