Home : Blogs : Erik Hitzelberger, --Louisville-Bullitt County Real Estate : Erik Hitzelberger - Louisville & Bullitt County Real Estate

Guess who's photos are in the Louisville Courier-Journal?

Imagine my surprise as I scanned through my Bullitt County Google Alerts this evening and stumbled across, "I found these photos of snow storm damage in Bullitt County on Flickr.com. They were taken by Eric Hitzelberger, who writes on a Bullitt County real estate blog." My broadband connnection seemed painfully slow as the page loaded. Needless to say, I was very pleased to see the Courier-Journal website pop-up. Bullitt Beat author Emily Hagedorn posted an article detailing how to dispose of tree limbs etc from the ice storm and used a few of MY photos to accompany the piece.

I posted these pictures to my Flickr account a couple weeks ago. While I haven't done as much on Flickr as I would like, I do have a Creative Commons license setup allowing anyone to republish my pictures with attribution. I really never considered that anyone would actually do it.

Thanks Emily!

* * * * *

Erik Hitzelberger is a licensed real estate agent with RE/MAX Alliance in Louisville. If you need a Bullitt County Real Estate agent please email me or call 502.921.3989.

I specialize in the following areas of the Metro Louisville Area: Jeffersontown (J-Town), Okolona, Fern Creek, Shepherdsville, Mt Washington, Hillview, Brooks and Pewee Valley. Click the following links to learn more about Louisville and Bullitt County Real Estate or to Search the Metro Louisville MLS.

Posted by Erik Hitzelberger, --Louisville-Bullitt County Real Estate on 02/12/2009 10:43 PM

Comments (14)

Bullitt County in the ActiveRain Channel

bullitt county, flickr

Post is included in group: "Whacked"!!!
Post is included in group: The Art Of Marketing You
Post is included in group: Diary of a Realtor
Post is included in group: Dedicated Bloggers
Post is included in group: Club Chaos

14 Comments on Guess who's photos are in the Louisville Courier-Journal?

FEB

Congratulations!! It's always nice to see recognition in public places and more opportunities for you to gain public recognition!!

Erik,

Oh my gosh, good for you!

Its great that your photos were chosen, but you have to be careful with what you post on those sites. They have complete control with what they do with your photos.

Very cool. :-)

June - I agree. I was very pleased. Good publicity is a great thing!

Lynda - Thanks.

Jennifer - I'll definitely keep your concerns in mind. However, my general intent is to photos that are of interest to locals or to those considering moving to the area. Did you have a bad experience?

C - I thought so. I am particularly thankful for the people here at AR. I've learned a lot and am working on integrating online/offline marketing with social media. It takes longer than I'd like, but I'm confident the rewards will come.

FEB

Hi Erik - Don't you love Google alerts?! That must have been a fun surpise.

Liz

Nice job Erik. It is great whenever the media notices something we have published and finds value with it.

Liz - It certainly was.

Bill - Thanks. As I mentioned to C Tann, I've still got a lot to do. But this is a nice motivator.

I have not done much with Flickr at all, but I have been meaning to jump in and check it out.

FEB

Very nice for you Erik!! I haven't checked out Flickr.... I know I'm behind the times.....

Erik: congrats to you. maybe the staff photographer was snowed in! Looks awful cold up there. Heard you guys had a particularly harsh winter? will check out Flickr Thanks!

JL, April, Charles - I haven't done much on Flickr either, but I do see the potential. It is a great way to share photographs, start a converation and, most importantly, be found. I have a lot of neighborhood photos as well as local images that I need to get organized and post. When you get a few minutes, check it out.

FEB

That is really cool, Erik :) Congratulations.

Leave a response…

Name:

Email:
(optional)

Comment:

What does the graphic say?