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New Webinar Series Uses DimDim Platform

Join me for a new type of Webinar experience as I take DimDim for spin!

Twitter Soup for the Soul - e-book

Twitter Soup for the Soul is a 122-page mashup of original photos and Twitter posts and an exercise in online transparency. The e-book is $9.97 -- half the author's proceeds will be dontated to CARE through theWeb Women Giving Circle. Frances Flynn Thorsen is a Twitterholic, blogger, journalist, blog coach, and author who writes about real estate, social media, law of attraction, and prickly pear cactus jelly. This is not a tutorial about how to use Twitter for microblogging ...

Twitter is described as a microblogging platform.Twitterers use the tool to push product, build brand awareness, instant message their friends, acknowledge and share links about trends and events and their most personal moments.

Twitter is a mashup of brilliance, idiocy, art, confusion, hyperbole, and prayer in 140-character-or-less sound bytes.

I think Twitter is even more ... Twitter is a reflection of the human soul. I've been Twittering since Sept. 8, 2007. Everything you need to know about me is contained in a bank of content there within a growing stream of some 1,749 140-character-or-less posts. My Twitter address is

http://twitter.com/FrancesFlynnTho.

Welcome to my soul.

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7 Steps to Amplify Your Blog Voice on Trulia, Zillow, and Yahoo!

I conducted a Webinar for RealTown bloggers recently ... you can insert the words "Typepad Blogs" for "RealTown Blogs" and use the same formula ... in fact, you can insert "Wordpress Blog" or "ActiveRain Blog" or any other real estate related blog with the same results!

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Also mentioned in the Webinar:

No Blogger Left Behind

Twitter Soup for the Soul

Creating Musical Videos for Explosive Spotlight Ads

Social media coach Frances Flynn Thorsen walks through Animoto, an exciting new tool that creates musical videos easily at low cost, creating a WOW! landing page for spotlight ads at Trulia and other media.

Law of Attraction Blogging - Webinar Replay

Successful blogging marries cyber technology and the technology of human beingness. Blog Coach Frances Flynn Thorsen shows how to use a blog to attract your ideal client, how to use "attractive" language, and how to share the best part of you online.

Join us for No Blogger Left Behind.

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HUD Homes for Sale - FREE Webinar

HUD Homes comprise a huge slice of the foreclosure property pie. But there are differences between HUD Homes and bank homes that matter to buyers and their real estate agents! This is a FREE Webinar for home buyers and real estate agents.

• HUD Homes are owned by the federal government, NOT banks!
  
• Real estate agents represent the buyers, NOT a bank, and NOT HUD.
• There are inspections performed before a house is put on the market.

Join me for a discussion about HUD homes ... use the TELEPHONE option instead of computer audio if you want to take part in the conversation!

1:30 pm EDT
12:30 pm CDT
11:30 am MDT
10:30 am PDT

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Save The Dream In 2009

Frances Flynn Thorsen is Community Manager at Trulia

Today it is official! I am the Community Manager at Trulia.com, the BEST real estate search site on the Web!!!

Top 100 Most Influential Women In Real Estate;Vote for Five Women You Think Are Tops!

Trendsetter Stefan Swanepoel has compiled a list of the Top 100 Women in Real Estate. There are some extraordinary women in the real estate industry and I am honored and amazed see my name in such an awesome lineup. Stefan is paring the list down to a Top 20 list from votes received through Friday morning, Sept. 26, 2008.

VOTE HERE for 5!

No Blogger Left Behind - Develop a Blog Business Plan

We are happy to offer a playback of Week One Webinar, Develop a Blog Business Plan.

There is still time to register here for the remainder of the session. This is the final eight-week series in 2008; the price for No Blogger Left Behind will be $297 starting in January, 2009.

Here is a handout for Week One.

We are pleased to announce that we are making a $25 contribution for each No Blogger Left Behind registration to CARE for humanitarian relief.

Sites and sources referenced in the Webinar are hyperlinked in the PDF handout. Other sources mentioned in the Webinar include:

• Mary Pope-Handy's award-winning blog, Live in Los Gatos
• Mary Pope-Handy's Haunted Real Estate Blog

Kudos from AZ 'No Blogger Left Behind' Alum Yvonne Coelet

The next eight-week series of No Blogger Left Behind Webinars starts August 29, 2008.

Extreme Blog Makeover at TheREALTYgram Blogger

This blog has worn the same skin since January, 2005 (shown at right). The Blog Roll links have been removed; the next step will be to update a Blog Roll that is consistent with my evolution as a blogger. I've changed the color from blue to green, with an eye to increased financial abundance ;-)

I love the larger headlines and the ease with which I can make these changes.

The built-in widgets here at Typepad make it easy to install web analytics with a single click in a check box! I LOVE it!

Next makeover is at my newest blog, No Blogger Left Behind.

Laser Blog Coaching Series

I've started a series of Laser Blog Coaching seminars that I am posting on my Blog Coach Blog -- No Blogger Left Behind.  Joeann Fossland and I are gearing up for another Webinar series that starts this week

NO BLOGGER LEFT BEHIND -- ActiveRain Breakout Session

No Blogger Left Behind ActiveRain Breakout Join us for a Webinar on July 10 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/850331901 What is new at ActiveRain? What is the scoop about the Outside  Blogs and Localism? No Blogger Left Behind Blog Coaches Joeann Fossland and Frances Flynn Thorsen will talk with special guests and panel members about the pros and cons of the "points game" at ActiveRain. Title: No Blogger Left Behind - ActiveRain Breakout Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008 Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer

Planning Blog Webinar BreakoutsLooking for Wordpress and ActiveRain Panelists

No Blogger Left Behind is an eight-week Blog Coaching Webinar series. Our "Breakout" sessions are open to the public. We are planning a Wordpress  Breakout and an ActiveRain Breakout in July. The Wordpress Breakout is a discussion for entrepreneurs and is not exclusive to real estate; the ActiveRain Breakout will be real estate centric.

If you are interested in sharing your Wordpress expertise or your thoughts about ActiveRain as a panelist, please let me know. I will be scheduling the Webinars in the next couple of days. We expect a large turnout for each of these events. E-mail me here.

No Blogger Left Behind Kicks OffNew 8-Week Webinar Series

The latest series of No Blogger Left Behind began with a great Webinar ... we had some audio difficulties and I covered the basics in a follow-up presentation. For more information, visit our registration page. Here is a HANDOUT for Week One.

Trulia Jumps on Foreclosure BandwagonThat Disenfranchises Distressed Homeowners

Distressed homeowners who want to KEEP their homes are a forgotten class. Real estate search giant Trulia is the latest mediatainment player that sees the distressed home market as a pool of buyers and sellers and panders to the hungry investor. Never mind the hundreds of thousands, maybe 2 million, homeowners who would prefer a choice to remain in their homes!

From Trulia press release:

" ... we scoured Trulia Voices to find a panel of foreclosure specialists across the country to provide some advice."

Sadly, there is no advice for homeowners facing foreclosure.  The distressed homeowner is the invisible man in terms of real estate industry outreach and support.

Relevant links:

Let's Learn How to Help Americans KEEP Their Homes

Podcast: How REALTORS Can Help Americans KEEP Their Homes

Voices of Foreclosure - Homeowners Sing a Victorious Tune    Homeowners around the country are successfully staving off foreclosure with consumer advocates at Ac...

10 Tips to Help Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure  Keep all of your loan and sale documents, consult competent help, and avoid foreclosure rescue scams...

Webinar - RealTown Blogs and Social Networking at RealTown

Join us for a Webinar on April 25

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/646599313

Learn how to create a RealTown blog with Frances Flynn Thorsen, Managing Editor of RealTown.com and award winning Blog Coach. Watch as she launches a new blog in RealTime. Learn how to use new RealTown social networking tools to attract more visitors to your web site and more buyers and sellers. The following week Joeann Fossland will join a Webinar featuring ActiveRain Blogging and social networking on that platform. Title: No Blogger Left Behind - RealTown Blog Breakout Date: Friday, April 25, 2008 Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer

Hack Moderators at ABC Should be Ashamed!

If you missed the Democratic presidential debate on ABC last night, Editor & Publisher called it "perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years."

I Twittered the debate proceedings yesterday (Twitter is a microblogging platform: http://www.Twitter.com/FrancesFlynnTho

Moderators George Stephanopolous and Charlie Gibson spent the first 50 minutes obsessed with distractions that only political insiders care about--gaffes, polling numbers, the stale Rev. Wright story, and the old-news Bosnia story. And, channelling Karl Rove, they directed a video question to Barack Obama asking if he loves the American flag or not. Seriously!

I just signed a petition to ABC and other media that says: "Debate moderators abuse the public trust every time they ask trivial questions about gaffes and 'gotchas' that only political insiders care about. Enough with the distractions--ABC and other networks must focus on issues that affect people's daily lives."

Want to sign it to? We need a bunch of signers for ABC to take this concern seriously.
Click here to sign.

Thanks!