#GreatDebates: American Dream Foreclosing – Accessing Crisis from Coast to Coast – How to #Occupy Your Home

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Contrary to Popular Tweets: Twitter is SEARCH | Only Search Engine People Sit and Watch | Learn.DryerBuzz

You have no idea how many times I have had to answer this question, “what is twitter?”

As a modern day Tubman leading people across the great digital divide, it is now my challenge to help people become smarter with the use of their smart phones.  There is nothing worst than a person responding with “I don’t know,” while holding a smart phone.

Even if you don’t have a smart phone and still carry an older version — don’t be dumb, call somebody.  Do a mobile shout-out and get an answer.  I digress.  This is suppose to be a post about twitter and not human behavior.  Again that’s my inner Tubman.  Sometimes I can be a Bullet In the Chamber Holla! — when it comes to technology.   I hear Tubman used to shoot people who wanted to go back.  Tweet that!

As a twitter veteran, there are a ton of ways to explain twitter, but this morning the idea bouncing around in my head became clearer.

I have long since expressed my opinion that twitter missed their mark in the grand scheme of themes as it relates to how humans interact in social media.  Also baffled by the way Google tries to compete with twitter and Facebook.  While twitter continues to play roulette with the men in charge, we’re left to figuring it out and making it do what it do.  They on the other hand continue to  jack up my favorite part of twitter — search.

This might or might not come as a surprise, but twitter is SEARCH.  It is the one search engine users watch and engage in continuously.

Occasionally and at varying speeds, people like me feed it.  I have fed twitter a total of 74,869 tweets (at post time) under just one account.  Comparatively, since around 2008, I  only posted about 5,000 blog posts at DryerBuzz.com.  Kinda got bored with blogging 2009 and 2010.

What twitter is now, used to be beholding to Google.  At one point in history, Google launched alerts for search results.  We all created alerts for ourselves, our brands, and the people we stalk.  But then came twitter.  Stalking and feeding our narcissism became easier.

Communicating became easier too.  Before DryerBuzz.com can send out a clipping to those we blog about or a Google alert is launched, we receive a thank you and a retweet via twitter.  That is how to make twitter do what it do. Do we still need that intern?

Twitter is SEARCH.  Whether you read only your timeline and mentions OR if like us and need a TweetDeck screen in every room — you are using twitter for search.  This is the one up they have on Google.

Me personally, I want the headline before it’s dry.  Yes Google is quick about adding new content to search.  They also have RSS readers and buzz and such.  But with twitter, I control the search engine.  And guess what?  The results look like me all day, everyday, 24/7. Tweet that!

When the topic is really interesting, I can pause the world and have a conversation about it with as many as is willing to participate.  Hmm should Google add comments to search results? Let’s not give them any ideas.

Oh wait Google did create Google Plus which is minus us at the moment.  I have yet to see Google Plus among sharing or blogging tools.  Are we missing something? In the meantime, will let early adopters and tech segregationists have Google Plus for another year or two. Some of us are still fascinated with the free world of twitter.  Twitter might also be the last frontier of privacy.  Tweet that!

Twitter is SEARCH. But wait — how come twitter does not yet understand its stake in the game is SEARCH? We need our archives beyond hash tags.  In fact, I think someone else came up with twitter’s search app which they later purchased and incorporated.  They also later purchased TweetDeck which really made twitter the search revolution that it is and what others would like to copy.

Facebook recently launched something called a timeline where we can quickly access a friends postings archived by year. But how come I  can’t easily browse back through my 74,869 entries on twitter to find one of my most brilliant ideas OR  better manage followers without 3rd party products.  (note: I actually tweet 3 more times before this point in post).

For a minute, and by minute I mean temporary basis, Google captured tweets in real time.  During which time some of us actually began to sit and watch results in Google. None the less, Google soon abandoned the idea and thus it is back to sitting and watching twitter.

Twitter is SEARCH.  Tweet that! Twitter is a place to search and dominate worldwide conversation. Every tweet, mention, and retweet is a search result delivered to you at your request.  Go ahead and deny it.  We know you don’t want to be considered as someone addicted to or interacts (waists time) in social media OR someone who stares at a search engine all day.

But let me ask, did you come by this blog post organically OR via twitter?  Don’t lie.  We can see you.

Tweet that!

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The opinion expressed in the post above is that of our editor Y. Lattimore @DryerBuzz.  Adapting to this and other opinions expressed at DryerBuzz.com can only make you more brilliant and chief among news junkies at the water cooler.  Tweet that!

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Clipping the Media: Newspapers Back In Effect | The Revolution Tabletized

Y. Lattimore — DryerBuzz.com – Before submitting this post, I’m pressing the play button to re-re-re-watch Page One: Inside the New York Times. Am I comparing DryerBuzz.com to the New York Times — hell yeah!

Having found a niche in news and media with DryerBuzz.com, it is an absolute must to know where media lead by newspapers are going at all times.

With the tablet revolution, news has gone from The Dog and the Bone – Why Newspapers (and Magazines) Are Going Going Gone (2010) to a resurgence of multi-platform content and yes, even paid content (yay!). Who told them to give away the milk for free anyway?

Even with the multitude of aggregators (a lovely term for digital bootleggers), there is now  audience demand to engage with the source — originator of the content.  Audiences are finding their way back through a web of links to connect to the source — if for only to give you a piece of their mind via social media.

Content creators, like myself are enthused.  This revitalizes the business of blogging because there is always the story that newspapers won’t/can’t cover.

Single medium is no more. Not that we have to be all or nothing, but its good and exciting to become what you desire — the way we actually started.  We want to be in your ear, catch your eye, and stimulate your imagination.

Media for myself is again exciting after two years of watching in shock and awe as newspapers began to vanish.  We understood the importance of their content.  Newspapers are coming back because imagination is coming back.  If newspapers can turn it around then so can we. Time to get back in the game. Half time is over.

With recent networking, people were asking where we have been.  We’ve been right here Transforming the way we look — at life since March 2002 — waiting on you to cross that digital divide.  We just look different on your new tablet.  Like newspapers, we are publishing more with renewed excitement and content.

At DryerBuzz.com, we have now brought back The Great Debates podcasts (Sundays 7pm ET); we’re contemplating or shall we say actually planning the first round of newly revamped live stream events. We’re dispatching to cover more local events. We do it all with a unique political, social and artistic mission.

As we said within our very first post — our goal is to meet you where you are — under the dryer and beyond!

Stay tuned and follow the buzz.  The revolution will be tabletized — until technology changes again.

What brought all this on… watch:

 

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VideoBuzz: David Carr of the New York Times Delivers the Bottom Line to Michael Wolff Founder of Newsers.  Don’t settle for the clip.  Go back to the source and watch Page One: Inside the New York Times

 

About Yalanda P. Lattimore

Engaging niche audiences nearly two decades, Yalanda P. Lattimore is an authority on creating buzz; recognized by BlackWeb20.com as one of the Top 100 Black Women on Twitter; and by UberSocial (formerly UberTwitter as one of the Top 30 Content Creators of African American Culture Content. Follow @DryerBuzz

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Hair She Goes! If You Want to Date Then Don’t Debate | LIfe Lessons in Hindsight

Hair She Goes! — If you want to date, then don’t take part in heated debates about relationships.  Remain silent.  Everything you say can and will be used against you.  It certainly won’t be used to get you a date. Keep in mind that interested parties are investigating you.  A rant here or there could make them consider the case closed.

Don’t fill your social media streams with rants about what women do or what men do.  In essence, all you want is one. One who understands and get you to the fullest. Your conversation either attracts or detracts potential mates. If interested, you will be Googled.  Your Facebook will be browsed. Your twitter timeline goes where you go.  There you are — rant rant rant all day long.

If you recognize the power of the universe and the guardian angels, then you have really got to be quiet.  What you express out into the universe becomes the force by which your guardian angels are guided. There you are making your angels run around in circles.  Angels cannot deciphers prayers from rants. So calm it down and be specific about what you think you desire in a mate. Your future mate will see it too.

What you say to attract a date, if successful, that will be the conversation you have for the rest of your life if this date becomes a mate. What you put out into the dating sphere should be the conversation most passionate to you.  Never say what you think a person wants to hear. Only egos are attracted to a conversation always about them.  If its not true, then you’re caught up in a lie for life.

Before an interested person makes them self known to you, they usually have discussions about you with friends or acquaintances you have in common. If you’re the single in the bunch of couples and nobody is hooking you up — think about it.  Now remain silent.  You might need to also make some new friends.

Love is unconditional — NOT!  The first condition to love is reciprocation. People want to loved back.  Right? Know your deal breakers.  They usually develop in childhood and rise to the surface at the first sight of disappointment. Don’t suppress them.  Don’t allow your sense of urgency to get to a certain place in life to suppress your deal breakers either.

What is love, commitment and marriage?  You would be surprised how many ways people describe love.  If a date’s description of love gives you pause, know that you can’t change that.  If you want to spend a life time trying then that is on you. We don’t want to hear your rant about it late.

What is marriage?  From what I have witnessed, from the outside looking in, marriage seems to be more of the same as dating.  Nothing changes but the names.  Thoughts of marriage start in childhood before the two of you even had a clue the other existed.  That is unless you married your childhood sweetheart.  I twittered my male friends to ask their daughters, as young as kindergarten, if she had started planning her wedding. Many of them came back with a resounding yes.  Some already had a boy mind.  What does that say about you fellas?

Don’t take my word for it.  Somewhere along the way, I expressed out into the universe that I would consider marriage in my 50′s and my guardian angels are running with it.  In the meantime, my angels have given me other passions that this is all the time I have to talk about it.  Again, don’t take my word for it.  Love and marriage is an often debated topic simply because it does not work for most.

My advice is to remain silent and then enjoy having the conversation with someone you are truly interested so that your passion for love is reciprocated and not just debated. Again, don’t take my word for it because its mine and I want to reserve it for my mate.  If you use it, then you’ll just be lying to him and I would have to hurt you.

Follow the Buzz with date debates and research around the web:

Pew Research

• Are views of marriage affected by the type of family people grew up in?
• Do people worry about marriage becoming obsolete?

Ebony Jet Magazine

• Why Women Should Not Marry For Love

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Welcome to DryerBuzz.com | Combing the headlines. Transforming the way we look at life.

Browse the Buzz – Welcome to DryerBuzz.com. We are Combing the headlines. Transforming the way we look at life. We may have started in salons, now we are creating buzz from Atlanta and beyond.  Online since 2002, follow the pioneers in new and social media and you won’t miss a minute of the buzz. For news, entertainment, organization and business buzz follow us @DryerBuzz and DryerBuzz.com.

Follow The Buzz: Hair She Goes! is your daily news for and about women. The Cuts! browse to see  what’s up with that brother. For organization and business buzz, we’re combing the headlines with The Clippings.  Spread the Buzz

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Hair She Goes! Motivational Blogger Yalanda P. Lattimore Expands Learning Channel with New Books | Encourages Others to Bind Their Blogs

There is a new trend in the business of blogging.  Approaching ten years in the game, for Yalanda P. Lattimore, life is about coming full circle.  Where do we go from here has an easy for her.  Connect the circle.  What does a blogger do with ten years of content, contacts, and hindsight.  We bind our blog and encourage others to do the same.

At the start of 20111, we launched our learning channel at Learn.DryerBuzz.com to share our wisdom and hindsight and pioneers in new media.  Out of that content has come the first book Create Buzz When Starting a Business: 27 Answers to FAQs About Social Media and Networking to be used as a tool to help bring more organizations, businesses and bloggers online.

But why stop there says Yalanda. “Looking at our content, we intend to take binding our blog to higher level. We have so much wonderful content and stories in our archives that could encourage generations to come.  We intend to publish the content is a succession of coffee table books, ebooks, videos and more. Just the features on women in our Hair She Goes! features would make an exciting book to browse courage and confidence.  The hard part is selecting the first group of stories for the next book.

We have spent a decade carving out a distribution channel to tell stories at Sistributions, publishers of DryerBuzz.com, that often get left on the news wires.  In celebrating 10 years in media, its time to come full circle.

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If you’re planning to bring your organization or business online, grab a copy of Create Buzz When Starting a Business: 27 Answers to FAQs About Social Media and Networking today to make the process easier.  Look for more books and learning tools on the learning channel at Learn.DryerBuzz.com

You can follow the conversation on how to bind your bind with #bindtheblog tips on twitter.

To be continued. . .

Two decades engaging niche audiences and helping entrepreneurs create buzz for their business, Yalanda P Lattimore, Editor of DryerBuzz.com answers FAQ’s in the perfect accessory for entrepreneurs, Create Buzz When Starting a Business: 27 Answers to FAQs About Social Media and Networking is available via ebook and Amazon Kindle.

 

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BookBuzz: Pre-Order Create Buzz When Starting A Business: 27 Answers to FAQ’s About Social Media and Networking | Yalanda P Lattimore | BookBuzz

The wait is almost over.  Two decades engaging niche audiences and helping entrepreneurs create buzz for their business, Yalanda P Lattimore answers 27 FAQ’s in the perfect accessory for entrepreneurs.  Create Buzz When Starting A Business: 27 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Social Media and Networking will be available starting Tuesday, August 2, 2011 via DryerBuzz.com & Amazon Kindle.  Print editions to follow.

Pre-order the ebook to be the first to read it Tuesday morning. If you have a question about growing your business, get the book and get the answers to create buzz.

Meet Yalanda P. Lattimore:

• Sunday July 29th: TechUptownATL, National Book Club Conference , Hyatt Regency Atlanta

• Wednesday August 10 at Atlanta Women Entrepreneurs Meet & Greet.

• Stay tuned for additional dates in August as we spread the buzz.

Pre-Order Create Buzz When Starting a Business
27 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Social Media and Networking

A download link will provided via email for all pre-orders Tuesday, August 2, 2011. Kindle version available after release date.

What is Leadership? | Learn.DryerBuzz.com

True leadership is wisdom with a reach or following.  One could say that leadership is a state of accomplishment in something that others have tried or want to attempt.  There is always someone at the top, out front, or willing to take the lead.  A leader might exude leadership because they have more confidence. It takes confidence to stand out in the crowd or boldly represent this or that issue.  Leadership is a conscience heard above the noise causing a person to act or do more. Leadership is finding, presenting, and sharing opportunities. Leadership is accepting responsibility.

Leadership can be right or wrong, negative or positive.  Leadership is influence. Leadership is issue oriented.  It’s following is targeted.  Leadership is accountable. Leadership is focused.

Leadership Skills

• Attentive Listening
• Needs Assessments
• Coaching
• Communication
• Development
• Team Management
• Ability to advance ideas
• Approachable
• Empowering
• Task Delegation

You might possess leadership skills if you feel the need to act when you see something is wrong; if you feel the overwhelming need to speak when others are quiet; or stay when others leave.  You might be a leader if you:

• find yourself with a following
• are often quoted
• are often recommended or nominated
• if friends or family turn to you
• if your opinion is often sought
• if others emulate you

Some take leadership seriously or consider it a calling though some lead their following astray.  Leadership is highly sought after.  Millions are looking or it everyday.  There are conferences month after month trying to show you how to find leadership inside yourself, on your team, or in that thing you love and desire to be or do.  Leadership is YOU whether you become it or support it.

Follow the Buzz — Who’s Talking About Leadership | Learn More from Learn.DryerBuzz.com

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AEIOU’s of Social Media | Learn.DryerBuzz.com

Like parenting, with social media, if you put too much emphasis on becoming friends you could lose authority.  To help maintain a good balance when meeting digital customers where they are — in social media — we bring you the AEIOU’s.

Digital customers function in the realm of information overload with access to your business in real time.  Word of mouth is not only between friends but syndicated across the globe whether you’re local or not.  When we started DryerBuzz.com in 2002, we launched as a hyper-local website to feature Atlanta.  Coming from one of the first live Internet morning shows, little did we know the world would follow us.  Atlanta being an international hub, EVERYBODY was one day coming to Atlanta.  We became a source for information on Atlanta. Thus while “social media” is relative new to some, we’ve been connected to the world socially for a decade and more.

When fans of the site talk about DryerBuzz.com, they reference reputation and how we are known for getting the story out NOW. There is also our length of time in the game as pioneers in online media.  This being our reputation, we have to continue to live up to it. But those are our constant consonants  Here is a bit of hindsight in what we call the AEIOU’s of Social Media:

A.

In our book “a” was for authority.  However, after an early morning “teachable moment” with Star Jones (@StarJonesEsq) after watching an interview she gave to Black Enterprise’s Our World hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, “a” now stands for “appearance.” One can have authority, but if it appears one does not, then it affects the business reputation. Feedback in social media is instant and reputations can change from moment to moment.  Just yesterday, we thought one way about Star Jones and today we think another.  Be in control of your appearance.  On the flip side, social media can give a larger than life appearance.  Anyone can become their own celebrity or expert.  What’s listed in a profile becomes the persona for which the person has to then prove.

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About Yalanda P. Lattimore

Engaging niche audiences nearly two decades, Yalanda P. Lattimore is an early adopter and framer in Social Media; recognized by BlackWeb20.com as one of the Top 100 Black Women on Twitter; and by UberSocial (formerly UberTwitter as one of the Top 30 Content Creators of African American Culture Content.

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