Dec 21
As per request from a meshEAST reader:
Do you have great writing skills? Do you love the Internet?
HomeZilla is looking for a few good bloggers to blog on Real Estate in Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.
HomeZilla is a startup company based in Toronto but is founded by a Cape Bretoner. CB and PEI will be the test markets where the product will first be promoted. Currently, we are in a private alpha and beta plans are for Feb 2008.
You will be expected to write two articles per week about real estate in your area. You will be given lots of freedom to focus on different aspects of the Residential Real Estate market and to build your own online brand.
Required Skills, one or more of:
* Writing Experience
* Blogging Experience
* Internet Expert
Like to haves:
* Understand how to promote blogs online
* Knowledge of Digg, Technorati, RSS, etc
We are willing train people and you will be paid based on experience as well as bonuses for growing the popularity of the blog. And yes, we are a startup so part of your compensation will be stock options. 
If interested please send us your resumes a link to your blog or a writing sample. Email: theteam@homezilla.com
Nov 19
I was curious to see what there was for squidoo pages in this neck of Canada. For those of you unfamiliar with Squidoo, it’s a brainchild of marketing guru, Seth Godin.
From wikipedia;
Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses –single pages that highlights one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. Lenses aren’t primarily intended to hold content; more emphasis is placed on recommending and then pointing to content on the web. Annotation and organization and personalization delivers context and meaning.
Squidoo has often been used by niche marketers and some have been very sucessful with earning revenue. However with Squidoo on the end of a google slap, it’s been much harder for sites to move up in google rankings.
What I like about Squidoo is that it is a hub of resources. And for a tourism venue site like some of the ones below, it is a very fast way to have a good looking site with multiple media resources.
I’m VERY surprised that I didn’t find a lense on unusual Newfoundland place names. With names like Dildo, Come-by-Chance, Blow-me-down and more you would think that would make for an interesting lense.
A few lenses from ’round here.
NF
http://www.squidoo.com/newfie/
http://www.squidoo.com/rick-mercer/
http://www.squidoo.com/laurieleehane/
PEI
http://www.squidoo.com/DiscGolfing/
http://www.squidoo.com/fan-of-anne-of-green-gables-and-avonlea/
NB
http://www.squidoo.com/fredericton/
http://www.squidoo.com/chrisnadeau/
http://www.squidoo.com/fly-fishing-new-brunswick/
http://www.squidoo.com/sackville/
NS
http://www.squidoo.com/novascotiafirstnation/
http://smartest.dentist.ever.com/ - this is the new evolution from Squidoo, the Ever Project with the best/smartest, etc. .ever.com
http://www.squidoo.com/halifaxnovascotia/
http://www.squidoo.com/luckynovascotia/
Nov 18
Online Revealed Canada is holding a Revealed Educational Exchange conference Jan 24, 2008 in Halifax. This one day event is geared towards those in the tourism, travel and hospitality industry. Topics covered will be search engine optimization, PPC (pay per click), organic search, social media and revenue & distribution management.
I would think that even someone outside of the above industries may still find it useful if they want to learn about those topics. There are so few events held in Atlantic Canada, you almost need to grab related ones that come out when you can.
On another e-tourism note. Atlantic Canada recently took home a few Canadian e-tourism Awards.
Nova Scotia awards are already listed at Tourism Research, E-Marketing & New Media Blog from NS.
Newfoundland - The Government of NF won an award for the best website in the public sector.
Tourism PEI was a finalist in the best website public sector.
Nov 17
I’ve started to build an Atlantic Canada twitter list of those in technology/marketing/ social media and related fields on the right sidebar. If you want to be added to the list, you can follow me on twitter or you can contact me. On the flip side, if you want your twitter removed from the twitter list, let me know and I’ll remove it.
If you’re new to what twitter is, from wikipedia;
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, email, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.
Caroline Middlebrook has a very comprehensive Big Juicy Twitter Guide.
My reasons for using Twitter:
- it’s easy to use and doesn’t take much time
- it helps build relationships with others
- you’re usually the first to know what is happening
- if you can’t attend an event, you can often follow a twitter on the event, ie. http://twitter.com/forrester
- it’s fairly viral with followers and who you’re following, lots of marketing opportunities
- it’s indexed by google, useful for seo
Most of all, I really enjoy the diversity of people out there and getting the big picture in a micro way of the world outside of mine.
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