ag·gre·ga·tion Pronunciation: \ˌa-gri-ˈgā-shən\

1 : a group, body, or mass composed of many distinct parts or individuals
2 a : the collecting of units or parts into a mass or whole b : the condition of being so collected

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Aggregation is one part of a social networking and social media strategy. Simply put, in order to keep up with the rush of information, we need to collect, classify and filter it.  This allows us to spend the most time on the most important information, and skip the rest.
continue reading "Aggregation, Syndication, Integration… Part I"

I just got my Google Wave invite.  I have watched a few of the videos, and I am going to have to give this thing a rip.  Combining text, chat, video, audio and a bunch of things I haven’t even thought of yet… with email… seems pretty cool.

Thinking back not all that long ago, I wasn’t doing most of those things seperately, much less combined.  In  fact, a few years ago, many of these technologies not widely adopted because of the bandwidth required.
continue reading "Google Waving…"

WordPress is an amazingly cool and powerful tool for building a website.  It is one of my two favorite CMSs (Content Management Systems)… the other being Joomla.

What makes WordPress cool is that it doesn’t take a team of geeks to fire it up and make it run every day.  In fact, most people can launch and maintain a WordPress blog with just a little training…  In fact, on some webhosts, a WordPress blog can be launched in under five minutes.
continue reading "Getting Started With WordPress…"

Some readers may know that I am an Active Rain Ambassador.  In that role, I have started a series on the basics that new members of that real estate social network might find helpful.

Most of us have learned by trial and error how to best leverage and utilize Active Rain, and some of that hard-earned knowledge is contained in the series.  It is also being expanded regularly, as I get time and new technologies and techniques make their appearance…

Check it out and enjoy.

Lane’s Active Rain Ambassador Series

This morning I had the pleasure of speaking with the Leaders Network Roundtable in Duluth about effecting a Social Media Plan.

During our hour or so, we talked about several aspects of a broad Social Media Plan, from strategy to measurement.  As promised, here is the outline with some bonus information added…
continue reading "Social Media Basics… LNR Meeting 10/15"