Social Media & Tech

Give em something…

to Talk about…

to Learn…

to Think about…

to Want more…

to Want to use you…

Your blog in this day, where everyone is online, is an extension of you. It is your personal brand, whether it be Dave Woodson, Social Media Consultant or Dave Woodson, The Mad Mortgage Machine. It can be a blog about Diabetes, or a Pro-biotic, or even an affiliate site about Data Encryption. The information that you give reflects back on you. So, if you presenting yourself as the local expert, you darn well better know the area that you are talking about.

So, often I read blogs from around the country looking for a good idea, to learn more about real estate or mortgages, and I see how many are doing it wrong. You do little to make yourself the expert, or even less to drive traffic to your site or sites. I can only imagine that the old adage applies, “even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while”.

So, my challenge to you for the rest of 2010 and beyond in your career. Is when you write a blog or when you express yourself on any Socail Media platform…

Give them something to talk about…

Dave Woodson, Social Media Marketing Consultant

The Indiana FHA Expert

Why the Yellow Pages are Yellow

They are yellow cause they are dying.

I love the calls that I still get every years from the couple different “yellow” page sales people in my area.  I tell them “no thank you, not interested” and they always seem to come back with some search engine attack that I already have them beat on.  Do the Yellow Pages still have a place a place in your home.  I doubt it, but if you have one comment below.

And, if you are using the Yellow Pages with out a blog that has at least some SEO, then you are dying too.

Twitter in Person, TweetUP, the Northwest Indiana Way

TweetUp! The NWI TweetUp

As Social Media grows it also grows around Northwest Indiana and the the need to be…Well, social grows as well!

It is not merely enough to just sit in your office, your home or the bunker and expect business and new friends to just roll in. There are so many opportunities out there for networking with local chambers, BNI, other lead groups across Northwest Indiana, but the one that I am really enjoying that meets on a monthly basis is the local TweetUp. You can do a search for it #nwitweetup on Twitter. We meet the 4th Thursday of every month. And, they are popping up around the world with ones being held in Chicago, LA and even just 20 minutes down the road.

This month however, I decided to bring my camera and let everyone that wanted and make the ones that did not want to introduce themselves. I think next month, I will narrow it down and try another angle. Here are some of Northwest Indiana’s local Tweets.

#nwitweetup from Dave Woodson on Vimeo.

NWITweetup – Where the social part is for the Social Web

For more information on our local TweetUp just follow me on Twitter and I will make sure you that you all the information that you need. If you are a local business that would like to host a NWITweetUp, just let me know and we can help you set it up.

Dave Woodson

Northwest Indiana Blogger Meet-Up

Word about the first 2009 Northwest Indiana blogger meet up comes from Steve Dalton:

From: Steve Dalton
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009

6 pm Thursday January 8th, 2009

Location – Golden Technologies 2402 Beech in Valparaiso

(Golden has agreed to sponsor our meet up!)

Open to bloggers from NW Indiana, please spread the word … It will not just be politics or real estate, those are some of my favorites, but all kinds of bloggers across NW Indiana.

Agenda – Meet and Kick off 2009!

No sales pitches just fellowship

I look forward to meeting some of you out there.  It will be my first time to go to one of these and I excited to meet many of you.

any questions give me @davewoodson or @daltonsbriefs a shout at Twitter

Dave Woodson