Turner's Perspective

The following conversation on Twitter inspired this post today. HomesByThomas  yesterday @respres Jeff, with over 6000 followers, how hard is it to maintain any sort of contact with people? Did you notice that I sent you a Thank You? respres  yesterday @HomesByThomas yes, I did, but hadn't respon...

Last Thursday I wrote about Why Twitter Follower Counts Mean Nothing. The post touched off some interesting public and private discussions. The number huggers are everywhere and their logic, in a very comfortable, that-sounds-like-something-i've-done-before, kind of way, can certainly appear soun...

Ashton Kutcher is about to pass 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. I'm happy for Ashton. And I mean that. He plans to do some great things with the account and I hope he does. But you're not Ashton Kutcher and neither am I. Unfortunately there are a whole slew of Twitter geniuses out there encouragi...

"The computer is a moron." - Peter Drucker A few days ago I received an email from someone who was comparing Real Estate Shows to another company. They wanted to know if we automatically distributed our Shows to the 10 or more social networking sites that another tour company distributed them to....

Inspired by Rich Jacobson's "The View From Here," I decided to post a photo I took the other day as I was leaving a local park with my kids. I posted this on Monday at In The Viewfinder, but felt compelled to share it here as well. I love sunsets. Love them. I go out of my way to see them. So as...

Yes, I'm a proud husband. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever been prouder of anyone or anything.Inspire The Child Breaking The Cycle Of Poverty By Educating Young Kenyan Women Inspiration is the spark that leads to change. Our dream is to create a home for orphaned girls filled with love that will g...

A Look At SearchCloudlet and twIRC Tweetgrid's IRC client: I'm a big fan of Tweetgrid for monitoring conversations on Twitter, mainly because it autoupdates and allows me to see up to 9 different conversation topics at once. (One of my tutorials is on the home page at Tweetgrid) But there are tim...

It's not that I didn't appreciate the wonderful words written by Gena Riede when she passed the Friendhip Ball to me. I did. I really did. It's just that I'm not a MEME fan. Actually, I need to use a strong word. I hate MEME's. I wish I didn't. I know they make people feel good and I'm usually al...

I will be speaking or appearing on panels every day at the National Association of REALTORS® National Convention. Here's the schedule: Using Social Media to Engage ClientsSunday, November 9 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PMLocation: Orange County Convention Center, West Building, Valencia Room W415DDeterm...

On February 14, 2007, I wrote "Barak Obama: This Post Is NOT About Politics." I wrote it less than 48 hours after the Obama campaign launched BarackObama.com. I'm embarrassed that I didn't spell his name correctly in the headline. I am not embarrassed by the analysis or the conversation that took...