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LinkedIn, Facebook and Constant Contact

albertkaufman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:13:44 +0000

Happy GroundHog Day!

My friend Betsy asked me how I find LinkedIn useful, and one of my answers to her has to do with any social network. When someone asks me to connect on LinkedIn or Facebook, I usually accept and then have a customized message (if I don’t know the person) which says hello and asks them if they’d like to receive my newsletter. Most accept the invitation and then possibly become future clients, friends, referrals, who knows? It’s a time-consuming process, but has led to positive results.

Here are the examples that I’ve worked up for Facebook and LinkedIn. Yours could be personalized for the work you’re doing

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Hello Darlene,

We’ve just become friends on Facebook, yeah! It’s always interesting to me as to why someone would like to be my friend. If you care to share, please write back. Also, I put out a monthly e-mail newsletter called The Eleven. If you’d like to receive it, please send me your email address or sign up here, http://tinyurl.com/TheEleven-signup. Lastly, I have a fan page here called Albertideation @ http://facebook.com/albertideation . It’s where on FB, I tend to share social networking tips and tricks.

Hope your new year is ringing in well,

Adios, Albert

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Hi Bhagvant,

We’ve just become connected on LinkedIn, yeah! It’s always interesting to me as to why someone would like to connect. If you care to share, please write back. Also, I put out a monthly e-mail newsletter called The Eleven. If you’d like to receive it, please let me know or sign up here,

http://tinyurl.com/TheEleven-signup.

Here’s the most recent issue: http://pdx.be/oneeleventwelve

Hope your new year is ringing in well,

Adios,

Albert Kaufman
Albertideation
http://albertideation.com

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Vertical Response

albertkaufman — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:42:10 +0000

I recently worked with Vertical Response while doing some work for Friends of Trees. I enjoyed the program and thought I’d offer it to clients.

For a comparison between different email marketing programs, click here.

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Albert on TV – 2011

albertkaufman — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:13:08 +0000

Albert Kaufman, Jim Lockhart and Richard Carpenter on today’s issues – Portland Cable Access – Fall, 2011

I took part in a show with Jim Lockhart and Richard Carpenter recently to discuss population growth and other environmental issues. I got to be the star and so thought I’d put this out into cyberspace for my own record of my current thinking and hopefully to entertain and enlighten others. Let me know what you think.

http://youtu.be/bfA44l5R6Xw

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The Peoples’ Republic of Portlandia!

albertkaufman — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:19:35 +0000

Got me a new shirt thanks to the efforts of the Peoples Republic of Portlandia!

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Great year at Burning Man 2011

albertkaufman — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:44:52 +0000

Another fantastic year!

Click to view slideshow.
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Portland Chiropractic Recommendations

albertkaufman — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:10:05 +0000

Albert Kaufman

I’m looking for a chiropractor recommendation for today in PDX. Do you have one? The two I’d choose are either busy or out of town. Thanks!

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- Carla Axtman I have a GREAT person. He’s in Lake Oswego…..
  
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- Miles Gordon I know a great one in Tigard…
  
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- Albert Kaufman PDX only, thanks!
  
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- Carlos Montano Mine is in Alaska or I would offer up mine.
  
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- Kristen Adams Hi, Albert ~ I really like Dr. Khalsa on SE Hawthorne – He has same day appointments. Also, Dr. Bob Johns in Milwaukie.
  
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- Albert Kaufman ‎@Kristen: Thanks, will look up Khalsa.
  
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- Albert Kaufman keep recommendations coming, Khalsa is out of the office..
  
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- Steve Nunley Paul Hagen in NW at An Hao & Randy Hewitt close in east Burnside
  
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- Lisa Carbone Hawthorne Chiropractic on 12th and division dr. amy (can’t recall her last name) is great. they have 2 or 3 others there, too.
  
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- Shams Diana Aleyn Cohen Have you seen Ansula’s sweetie, Rontu? I think he’s semi-retired, but definitely amazing and kind.
  
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- Albert Kaufman thanks, everyone. Will try your suggestions.
  
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- Albert Kaufman ended up via Steve’s recommendation getting referred to someone at Circle Health, where I already go from time to time (excuse the pun) to All’s Well that Ends Well
  
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- Albert Kaufman https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alls-Well-That-Ends-Well/108949129132280
  
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- Shams Diana Aleyn Cohen Cool, I know a lot of the practitioners there & at Circle in general, from way back in the day. Jill was in my dinner collective. Have you met her?
  
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- Jessica Byers Abe Cohen on NE Broadway. He’s good.
  
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- Albert Kaufman ‎@Shams: yes
  
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- Albert Kaufman thanks, all. I’m good, or hoping to get good later today!
  
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- Gretta Siegel I’ve been going to Abe for 25 years, he’s right by your house.
  
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- Matia Divitt Athena Paradise on 13th n Madison…
  
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- Albert Kaufman ah yes, Athena Paradise. I remember wanting to see her. thanks, everyone!
  
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wisdom

albertkaufman — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:27:11 +0000

“Think of yourself as a wing, a torch, a promise. Risk your significance, live, blossom, go forth and win. Let the world rejoice at your presence. Find those who have failed to flourish and whisper in their ear, “grow, grow.” Perhaps on this day, for the second time in the history of the world, you shall discover fire.” – Saleem Rana

“When someone tells you who they are, believe them” Maya Angelou

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Undriving comes to Portland on July 24th

albertkaufman — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:24:44 +0000

We’ve invited the folks from Undriving to come to the Sunday, July 24th Portland Sunday Parkways in Downtown/NW Portland. If you’d like to volunteer to help people get their Undriver Licenses™, please get in touch – albertkaufman@gmail.com And, if you’d like to stop by and register for your Undriver License, please do. They are super-cool and you’ll be the talk of your friends.

On July 24th we’ll be @ the entrance to the Waterfront Park Bowl, as the Sunday Parkways route turns from Columbia onto Naito Parkway. We’ll have two shifts for volunteers: 10:45-1:30 and 1:15-4:00

The volunteering will consist of helping people fill out a form about alternatives to driving they might choose; helping them dress up for their Undriver License photo, and having fun

I first ran into the Undriver License Station™ at the Green Festival in Seattle in 2010. I stepped up and filled out a short form detailing my willingness to attempt to drive less. The experience was thought-provoking and has led to me sell my car and share one with my partner. I’m so convinced that Undriving will be a big hit that I’m volunteering to help organize a visit by the founders of Undriving (Seattle) and their licensing operation. Please help me spread the word and come get your Undriver License! Thanks!

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time for Oregon to find a new type of state government

albertkaufman — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:05:49 +0000

To the Editor of the Willamette Week:

I read your review of our state legislators, “The Good, Bad and Awful” and thank you for such an evened take. I think the article points out the problem I’m seeing with all levels of government, and especially statewide. We’re not able to handle the problems we’ve got with the system of government we’ve got in place. On the City and National level we at least have people working for us full-time, but at the state level we ask the impossible and the results are an indication that things aren’t right. We pay people peanuts to make important decisions infrequently. This leads to gridlock in budgeting, horse-trading, favoritism, and an uphill battle getting good legislation passed when its opposed by any industry that’s affected. Want to stop the banning of single-use bags? Hire 4 lobbyists and that will do the trick. Want to buy a legislator, that doesn’t seem to be that expensive for the timber industry, for instance.

It’s really high-time we think about changing the current system. One thought would be to move more in the direction of hiring people to manage our state for us. I’d rather my taxes go to the best managers and decision-makers out there and from your guide we can see that our money is not buying that – far from it. We have a complex collection of millions of people, millions of acres, health, education, and land-use decisions. Leaving this work to a part-time force of people with a wide-variety of ability levels and favors owed seems like the worst way to make important decisions that I can think of. Some might say, “well, this is our democracy”. I say, this is not good enough, especially considering the challenges ahead such as climate change. Our legislature spent an entire session deliberating over a lot of issues and came up with very little. How will they be at making quicker decisions in the future? I think it’s time to seriously consider a different system to manage our state, now.

Sincerely, Albert Kaufman

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Facebook through the fan page lens

albertkaufman — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:51:25 +0000

I wrote a long email which I sent out to my email list this week. I discussed what I think about facebook fan pages, and included a list of all of the pages that I administer. The article is here – feedback welcome.

http://tinyurl.com/albertideationonfanpages

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