I had the pleasure of attending a workshop on Timeline for Pages at Cement Marketing this week. Alaina Shearer, owner of the social media marketing company, led the casual, informative session. Like it or not, all pages are being switched to timeline today. Change is not easy, for sure, but the new format does...
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You may have noticed Hounds in the Kitchen has had some trouble recently. From images not loading to receiving errors when trying to look on the web to a whole day without service, our website was as googly as Devie’s eye. Boo. IX Hosting Fail Most of these failures were coming from my host,...
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Yesterday I presented a workshop at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association annual conference called ‘Food Is Social: Using New Media to Market Your Food Business’. More people attended than I had handouts, so I promised to reprint my notes here. Why Invest Time in Social Media? “Four out of every five people...
Read more →You may have noticed a few changes on the blog recently. Here’s what’s going on: Updates I updated the category titles and am working behind the scenes to make sure posts are correctly categorized. I took down the Foodbuzz ad block when my contract expired at the end of September. I want to earn...
Read more →Last Thursday I had the pleasure of recording an hour long radio episode about niche blogging with Erica Pryor of Digital 411 and Andrea Ratulowski of Food Embrace. We talked about blogging platforms, working with PR agents and advertisers, social networking, audience and more. I loved chatting about technology in the professional Talktainment studio....
Read more →Kim Moldofsky of MomImpact is offering a Type A Parent conference pass to one random blogger who shares a six word story or haiku. Maybe one of these entries will be my ticket to meet Kim again! Sessions, networking, real food, brewery haven. ‘Course I want to go! Best friends are moving to...
Read more →I did it! I posed every day in November as part of NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month. It was a challenge indeed, especially through our bourbon country vacation and Thanksgivings when I otherwise would have skipped posting for a few days. I had no writer’s block and felt no lack of topics to prevent...
Read more →When I started this blog, other local food bloggers welcomed me into their fold like pioneers seeking friendly companions on the new frontier. We read and comment on each others’ work and pass around opportunities and news. We give each other link love and retweets, assets barely defined a mere two years ago. So...
Read more →Please vote for this post to win a conference ticket. Simply click on @racheltayse is this poll. Thanks! Hounds in the Kitchen is growing not unlike the edible garden in our backyard. I planted seeds in education, writing, and speaking from this blog. Some have borne fruit already. Some activities seem to reseed themselves,...
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