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Bloggers Tour

Here’s a brief pictorial accounting of the bloggers tour – Touring the Historical Society Museum Wandering Around Downtown Hampton Visit to Latham Seeds Riding the Combine An Evening Like It Used To Be Rehabilitation Center and Leahy Grove Tour Harriman-Nielsen Historic Farm Fall Festival

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Social Media Tools for the Entrepreneur

Tuesday, October 25th Debworks will offer a class for the local entrepreneur. Whether you own a home based business or small brick and mortar store – this class is geared towards you. What will be covered? Facebook Fan pages, Google tools for the small business, Why a blog can help your business, Make a movie…

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Bloggers Over the Moon

Star Gazing at Maynes Grove Imagine a lodge built on a hill above a lake, 1/2 mile off the road and in the middle of a grove of trees — Maynes Grove Lodge. photo by Jon Swanson Now fill it with people who like each other and come from all over the county, add food…

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Community

The Harvest Tour is over. Veni Vedi Vici.  They came, they saw, they conquered. I will be posting about Maynes Grove and Star Gazing Combine Rides 1917 Movies Eating with bloggers Fall Festival There will be pictures, connections, stories, comments and words that will give you the visual feelings we had. Today – I  want…

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The Bloggers Are Coming!

I do feel a little like Paul Revere — riding my horse through town and country and letting everyone know “The Bloggers Are Coming!” Except of course, I’m the one that invited them. We are having a bloggers tour in Franklin County Iowa this weekend.  8 Midwest bloggers and families will be here to experience…

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Livin’ on a Prayer

Desmond Child — cowriter of Living on a Prayer — sings. It’s nice to hear things differently once and awhile.    

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Facebook Fan Pages pdf

Hi attendees of Upper Midwest Social Media Conference! Want to follow along with me?  Or maybe you’d like to refer back to this document when you get back to the office or home.  Either way …. here’s the pdf file of my presentation.           

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140 Wrap Up

It’s not the tangible things I learned last week that made such a big impression. I loved hearing the stories from the 140 Character Conference Speakers – and you can listen to them here  or here . I also enjoyed the conversations with the other speakers – Kevin Honeycutt has an idea I want to pursue with…

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Bringing the 140 Home

We’re home!  This week was a great time at the 140 Character Conference – and many amazing people spoke and ignited conversations.  I’ll write on that later this weekend. Did you miss Greg Falken and I?  No worries – here we are.

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We’re live today

Today is the day.  We’ve made it to Hutchinson, Kansas.  We had great food at the airport last night and even better company.  Today we get down to business. You can watch the 140 Character Conference live on line at http://smalltown2011.140conf.com/  We encourage you to do so. See how serendipity and the online world meet the…

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