social media: Pssst: Want to Hear a Quick Trick to Save Time on Social Media? - 10/25/10 03:08 AM
Want to learn a quick trick to save time on social media? 
Anyone who has been following me for a while knows that I have a love/hate relationship with social media.  I love the opportunity social media provides to stay in touch with friends, family and contacts and to get my work out there to home buyers and sellers in Montreal West Island.  But I hate how social media sucks my time away without my even realizing it. I wrestle with this daily.
Well, 10 days ago, at a seminar on developing a social media strategy that was organized by MiB Networking Group and delivered by Nancy Overbury, … (18 comments)

social media: Amused to Death? - 10/18/10 02:55 AM
I'm feeling philosophical this Monday morning.  Roger Waters is coming to play the entire album The Wall here in Montreal at the Bell Centre.  Hubby is going, but I'm not.  Though I'm a huge Roger Waters fan, it's his solo stuff I prefer and so I just couldn't justify the price tag: a cool $250.  The Wall is Ritch's favourite album, so he must go.
I'm feeling philosophical because I've had to ask myself some tough questions about how I've been spending my time lately.  I've spent the better part of a year investigating and experimenting in social media, including blogging.  It's been a … (23 comments)

social media: Confessions of a Social Media Neophyte - 06/22/10 03:39 AM
1.  I feel guilty for making new "virtual" friendships when I can't seem to keep up with my "real" friendships.
If I spent as much time visiting with the 3-D people in my life as I do visiting with people I can only "see" by way of a still photo...or, if we're lucky, a vlog...I'd have a fuller social calendar than Megan Fox at a men's club.
2.  I question the validity of my rationalization that all this time spent on the computer is actually good for business.
This doesn't feel like work at all.  Oh, I tell myself it is.  And I tell those around me that it is, too.  … (45 comments)