Author Archives: Kristal Kraft

Lessons From RainCamp

Active Rain came to town!

It was a full room last week when the Rain Gang showed up.  They came armed with T-shirts, goody bags and a ton of great technology tips with practical applications for them.
This day wasn’t for the weak of heart, the information came with the force of a fire hydrant unleashed on [...]

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Deleting a Connection – LinkedIn

Let’s face it, sometimes social media connections aren’t forever.  Life changes and at times we would prefer not to let someone we are no longer “connected” to be privy to our information.
When this happens it’s easy enough to go into the social media sites and disconnect!  It does take some looking around though.  Connecting tends [...]

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Dipity is Cool

Dipity is a way to combine your visits and comments across the vast social ocean we call the Internet. It’s basic service is free, but there is an upgraded paid version if you really want to get fancy.
I found it while surfing via Jennifer Rathbun’s site. I liked what she did on her [...]

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Linda Davis Presents 60 in 60

There is so much great content already in place on the Internet, it seldom makes sense to repeat what others have done.  I thought I would share this very good presentation authored by Linda Davis from Connecticut and presented a few months ago in my home State of New Jersey.  Yes, it would be  much [...]

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Connecting Your Social Media Dots

Card.ly offers an attractive way to combine all your urls to the ever-growing collection of social media sites these days.

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TrendsSpotting’s 2010 Social Media Influencers

As we end yet another interesting year of experiencing social media it is fun to review the predictions of others on what the future will bring.  I found this excellent SlideShare featuring Twitter-style micro-blogging predictions.
TrendsSpotting’s 2010 Social Media Influencers – Trend Predictions in 140 Characters

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I believe most of them [...]

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KrisTalks Bakes Baklava

It’s Not Technology but It’s Good!
By popular request (from my lovely daughter, Vali) I am slaving in the kitchen on Thanksgiving eve, making a very untraditional Thanksgiving dish.  When I Tweeted what I was doing, several mouths started to water and my recipe was requested!
Being a dedicated blogger I decided the best thing to do [...]

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Confessions of an iPhone Junkie

I admit I’m addicted.  It is bad, really bad when you can’t imagine life without an iPhone.
Apple’s got me.  I’m not only an advocate I’m a crazy app downloading, texting, photo taking zealot.  I Facebook on my iPhone.  I even Twitter.
Lord knows the world could care less what I am doing every minute of the [...]

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REBarCamp San Francisco

It’s been only one year since the beginning of the Real Estate Bar Camp phenomenon.  It’s a movement of sharing knowledge on a peer to peer basis.  The camp is free or relatively inexpensive to attend, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.  Thought leaders, accomplished, and conscience competents stand up to lead a group on [...]

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Tweet Week – Learn Twitter on Twitter

This post is in a series about understanding the basics of Twitter.
Today there will be no pretty Twitter bird graphics or any graphics at all. I am posting to this WordPress blog from my iPhone while sitting in Fresno, California. Flights to San Francisco my final destination have been delayed.
This post is coming [...]

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