From the desk (and BlackBerry) of Keith Parnell

I will be speaking next week to a group of Hampton Roads professionals, hosted by Realty Executives, on the use of video for their business. Of the many topics we will touch on are:

• Should video be used as a part of your toolset.
• How video should and can be used in your daily activities.
• How video can be used effectively for lead generation.
• How video can be used efficiently during your busy day.
• Where you should store your video and using storage as part of your social network.
• When you should quick produce your own video and when you should hire a professional.
• What type of video camera should you use.
• Live streaming video, when and why.

Join us at the Realty Executives office at 316 Office Square Lane, Virginia Beach, VA 23462. Register for the event on Facebook here. I look forward to our conversations!

Please help support my speaking sponsors for this event: Tidewater Mortgage Services, Inc and JASE Digital Media.

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Listening to Deliver Me by Sarah Brightman on Pandora Radio.

Nicole and I took Reggie for a long walk around our neighborhood on the Lafayette River in Norfolk during the height of the weekend snow storm. Fun! It’s a little hard to tell in the video but the snow was falling steady, the wind was blowing about 20 MPH, and it was about 25 degrees outside.

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Listening to Take Five by Acoustic Alchemy.

Be sure to register for these cool social media events at coffeewiththeceo.eventbrite.com so we can allow our hosts to plan for crowds.

February 2nd location:
Panera Bread
300 Constitution Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23462

February 9th location:
Bean There Cafe
733 Eden Way
Chesapeake, VA 23320

February 16th location:
Aromas Coffee
706 Towne Center Drive
Newport News, VA 23606

February 23rd location:
Fair Grounds Coffee
806 Baldwin Avenue
Norfolk, VA 23507

Coffee with the CEO: Let’s Live Social Media in Hampton Roads!

10:00am - 11:00am

Come out on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Digital Media, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

Join the video series online at CoffeeWithTheCEO.com

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Listening to Baby I Love You by B.B. King & Bonnie Raitt.

If you’ve never been to Hampton Roads, this is all you need to know about the weather.

60 degrees today. 30 degrees lower tomorrow. Then snow on Saturday. Yeah right!

I actually feel sorry for the meteorologists that try to work in this area.

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Listening to Since I Met You Baby by B.B. King & Gary Moore.

On Tuesday a group of professionals will gather over coffee to discuss business strategies, new media tactics, how inbound marketing can help small businesses in Hampton Roads, and many other hot topics.

Come out to Fair Grounds Coffee off Colley Avenue in Norfolk and join us in this open discussion. No agenda. No sales. Just sharing and free networking with other like-minded business folks.

Let’s live social media for business together!

Register for Tuesday’s Coffee with the CEO here.

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Listening to Low Rider by Barry White.

About 50 or so like-minded business professionals attended last evening’s Hampton Roads Tweetup. The tweetup was organized by the Hampton Roads Internet Marketing & Technology Group and sponsored and hosted by the Surf Club Ocean Grille in Virginia Beach. The success of the meetup is positive proof that social media is alive and well in Hampton Roads.

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New Media Conventions
April 2010
Hampton Roads, VA

Come join us in April for social media at the beach!  April brings beautiful weather to the Virginia Beach area.  The wider area around “the Beach” is known collectively as Hampton Roads, which makes up Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Williamsburg, Hampton, Newport News, and Va Beach. 

If you’re traveling from Richmond, Washington DC, or Charlotte, NC the drive is very easy.  Norfolk’s ORF Airport services direct flights from New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, and many other major metropolitan areas.

Get more information on New Media Conventions at http://NewMediaConventions.com

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A group of business professionals from Hampton Roads gathered at Panera Bread in Ghent, Norfolk, VA to talk social media, new media, SEO, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, website designs, Southside Hampton Roads & Peninsula meetups, New Media Conventions, business strategies, video sharing, photo sharing, social bookmarking, marketing strategies, internet advertising, inbound marketing, email marketing and many other intriguing topics.

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Related Information:
http://www.coffeewiththeceo.com
http://www.jasegroup.com/advertising
http://www.jasegroup.com/design
http://www.jasegroup.com/email_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/inbound_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/internet_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/search_engine_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/social_media
http://blog.keithparnell.com
http://www.keithparnell.com
http://www.newmediaconventions.com

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I found myself this afternoon driving around Town Center in Virginia Beach looking for a parking space before a lunch meeting at Gordon Biersch. For those of you that do not live in Virginia Beach, Town Center is ‘the’ business mecca in Southside Hampton Roads.

In front of me at a stop light was this (photo below) mobile truck advertisement. With a quick glance you can tell the ad is for a television program. I can make a logical guess that the advertiser just wants me to tune in to the tv show.

But what if the advertiser were to display a website address (URL) on the ad. Wouldn’t that make more sense? A website builds community. A website builds loyalty. A website builds a list of consumers that like you that could potentially buy from you. A website creates a location for more (lesser expensive) advertising. A website provides a location for past shows on video. I could go on but you get the picture.

Don’t miss out with your advertising. Don’t think that inbound marketing sources are only from online tentacles branching from your web hub. Use your offline techniques to build a more loyal online community.

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Twitter users get a little face time at Va. Beach ‘tweetup’

By Patrick Wilson
The Virginian-Pilot
© October 1, 2009
VIRGINIA BEACH

So, you know all those people who spend so much time talking to each other on Twitter? They also like to meet in person, as they did Wednesday evening at a “tweetup.”

More than 90 Twitter users met at Gordon Biersch restaurant at Town Center to see each other in the flesh. Most were professionals networking for business and personal reasons.

“A tweetup is just a gathering of people that use Twitter,” said Naoma Doriguzzi, 32, who has hosted about 10 this year. “Just meeting the people behind Twitter.”

Some Twitter users on Wednesday wore suits; others wore jeans. What they had in common was use of social media to network, meet people and, for many, do business.

Keith Parnell, 46, of Norfolk is the founder of JASE Group, an advertising and marketing company. At a tweetup, people talk about everything, he said, just as they do on Twitter.

“They’re growing relationships,” he said. “They’re growing both personal and they’re growing business relationships.”

Jennifer Taylor, 26, of Suffolk said she got a job interview Wednesday with a marketing company, lined up by someone who followed her on Twitter.

Most of the networking was in person Wednesday night, although some people brought laptops to update Twitter.

Twitter makes it easy for people to have conversations about anything, Doriguzzi said. She is the social media director for New American Mortgage and uses Twitter to brand herself. People she has never met have recognized her because of her photo on Twitter and Facebook, she said.

“I’ve met random people online that I’ve never met in person that I’ve actually done business with - new clients,” she said. “It’s an easy conversation. Because it’s so simple… you can talk to people in a casual way.”

Click here for a guide to Twitter.

Patrick Wilson, (757) 446-2957, patrick.wilson@pilotonline.com

Source: http://hamptonroads.com/2009/09/twitter-users-get-little-face-time-va-beach-tweetup

New Media Conventions

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New Media Conventions

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No need for those expensive satellite feeds anymore, I’m guessing. When you have a story to report just whip out the laptop, throw in the air card from your favorite ISP, and pop open a Skype video connection back to the office / television station.

I snapped this photograph real quick tonight with the BlackBerry while watching the 11:00 PM news on television on WTKR TV 3 in Hampton Roads (VA).

Good for WTKR! Very resourceful reporting from Mexico.

I ran across this video on the Hampton Roads Partnership blog. It’s actually a promotional video for the proposed new Midtown Tunnel in Hampton Roads (VA) but the video gives a great simulation of how the tunnel links are designed, built and installed in the river.

Grab your coffee and let’s talk about building your personal and professional brand through social communities. Online and offline!

Social community references in this video:

• JASEzone
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Plurk
• FriendFeed
• blog
• Hampton Roads Internet Marketing & Technology Group
• Entrepreneurs Forum of Hampton Roads
• Virginia Opera Guild
• Tabernacle Church of Norfolk