My Sister's Getting Married!!

Yay! It's such a good thing Will is cool, responsible, fun, & all the things a sister wants for her sister, because I'm really looking forward to my sisters wedding this month!! I just saw her engagement pictures, by Daisy Moffatt Photography and I think they show exactly why I'm so pumped for this wedding. If you like cool photography, and seeing people smile, take a look!
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Now all I have to do is finish getting my wardrobe together!

Don't laugh

I'm getting ready to move, and with that move comes internet. And maybe, just maybe that will help me blog. We shall see.

Meanwhile, thanks to my iPhone, my twitter is always active, so look for me, @_emily_rose there.

blog take 2

How chiché is it that my first post in ages is about goals in 2010? Very. Do I care? Not really.

I started this blog last summer with high hopes of writing often, getting my thoughts on topics that interest me out there, getting wonderful feedback, and meeting some cool people in the process. I failed miserably, and it's all my fault. I didn't write often, and rarely about anything significant. Therefore, the rest of my goals were doomed.

2010 is going to be take 2.

I have a feeling that this will stay pretty casual. But I still have dreams of putting togeather some thoughtful posts on topics like Twitter, web analytics, and maybe even how I think that some old school approaches to marketing/business work well with 'new media'.

We shall see how I do. Bets anyone??

NASCAR on twitter?

When I joined twitter this spring no one in NASCAR was there. None of my favorite drivers, and there weren't many 'official' sources of NASCAR news. Oh how times have changed. My NASCAR column on tweetdeck is now my most active group of people, and having grown up in the sport, I love it!


Who I follow
Kevin & Delana Harvick: @KevinHarvick & @DeLanaHarvick
Michael Waltrip: @mw55
Kenny Wallace: @Kenny_Wallace
Kyle Petty: @kylepetty
Bobby Labonte: @Bobby_Labonte
Elliott Sadler: @Elliott_Sadler
Richard Petty Motorsports: @RPMotorsports
Hendrick Motorsports: @HendrickInfo
Richard Childress Racing: @RCRracing
Greenville Pickens Speedway: @GP_Speedway

The drivers are pretty funny and candid. It's a lot of just what they do on a daily basis, but also driver to driver conversation, and some fan interaction. They post a lot of pictures, which is always interesting to see. The teams post a lot about driver and promotional appearances, and when they will be featured on different TV shows. They also provide some cool race day insight into how the different teams are running throughout the day, driver feedback, etc.


How to find NASCAR people on twitter
The easiest way to find out which drivers were on twitter was to check out who the official NASCAR twitter accounts were following. It was a lot easier than doing multiple searches. I also found people that I didn't originally think of, and/or didn't expect to be on twitter. This is where I started:

http://twitter.com/NASCARSays/following
http://twitter.com/NASCAR/following --- I don't know if this is an official account or not, but I did find my favorite new account of the day AJ Allmendinger (@AJDinger)
**Editor's Note: The Dinger's Twitter acct is no longer active. Sad

Who am I not following? Leave me a message in the Comments :)

life gets in the way

So I'm struggling to post on this blog. Its not that I don't want to, but I keep running into roadblocks.

The first is that I really don't have much happy to post about right now, and I don't want this to turn into a whinny blog. That would be very uncool. The second thing is I don't have internet at my house right now, and my only reliable source is a local bar that is not very 'hip to blogging' (yes I just said that, and whats worse, I didn't delete it). So in the meantime I'm going to share a few videos that have made me smile lately.



Really Cool Music Video



Ridiculously Awful Microsoft Commercial