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Who will take home the Samsung GALAXY camera?
Many of you have entered my DC Cherry Blossom Photo Contest for a chance to win this excellent camera. I am thoroughly enjoying the photo entries from my Twitter friends and I love the feedback from all of you on Twitter, Facebook and G+. I especially like this comment from Elizabeth Traub “Ann I love all the pictures you have been posting. It’s [...]
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The BlackBerry Z10 Has Some Real Juice
I’m currently getting the opportunity to play around with the new BlackBerry Z10! This is my first BlackBerry, and I’m still figuring out how to navigate and generally testing it out. I would like to both share and highlight some cool features that have impressed me so far. Firstly, if you’ve used a BlackBerry before you might be dismissive of a new version—don’t be! The [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Tech, Travel, Videos
Blissed Out at Verizon Tech Heaven in NYC’s Times Square
A corner of New York’s Times Square has become my own personal geek heaven! A group of 20 #VZWBuzz brand ambassadors traveled to the Big Apple this past Thursday—some of us to meet for the first time, while others were re-united from previous trips. We started the visit off with a wonderful dinner and powwow [...]
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Blogging, Social Media, Videos
Cherry Blossoms and Blogging Tips Bloom at @EdgarDC Tweet Up
I want to thank all of you who were able to come out and join us at Make Your Blog Blossom: Tips on Research and Audience-Building. We had a wonderful time, both giving our presentations and also meeting all of the attendees and enjoying @EdgarDC’s fantastic food and drinks at The Mayflower Renaissance Washington, DC [...]
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The Re-Tweet: Don’t Take The Easy Road
Did you know that, at one point, Twitter didn’t have an auto re-tweet button? We used to have to copy and paste the tweet we wanted to re-tweet and add an “RT” to the front or at the end. Let’s have a look at the difference between re-tweeting the traditional way versus hitting the quick [...]
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The Wonder Days: My First Time at #SXSW!
This may have been one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended—and I’ve been to a few of them. But at #SXSW, the amount of stuff to do could fill a month, not just five short days. Generally I’m a very organized person, and I started off the trip prepared—I had all the sessions that [...]
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Spring Ahead! DC Cherry Blossom Photo Contest
Celebrate the nation’s greatest springtime event by joining our tweet-up and our photo cherry blossom contest! Mark your calendar for March 22nd for our next tweet-up at @EdgarDC. I will be sharing the stage with Marilyn Terrell, chief researcher for National Geographic Traveler magazine who will discuss the importance of research for writing blog posts [...]
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How to Be the Life of the Social Media Party
I keep hearing about a problem on social media, so I sat down to write this post to help both those suffering from repeated requests for “favors”, and those who make them. It’s perhaps not the “help” those making the requests were asking for, but it should help them. Please do take this unsolicited advice [...]
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In Tech-Geek Bliss With My New Camera Gadget
For those of you who follow me in the social media world, then you probably know that I can’t stop photographing nature or events and sharing them with you. I used to carry around my Canon T2i to events and hikes, and have many fond photos and memories. Fast forward to around August of last [...]
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Friends Old & New Connect @edgardc for D.C.’s Social Media Week
This past week was Social Media Week in Washington, D.C., and to celebrate, we had our D.C. Happy Hour and discussion: Build Relationships, Followers Will Come at Edgar Bar & Kitchen hosted by Sean Garner and I, and moderated by Shana Glenzer. We thoroughly enjoyed the evening, with the @EdgarDC #EdgarSocial tweet-up that reunited old friends [...]
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