Saturday, March 28, 2009

Frederick Real Estate, Get a Job in Frederick

Real Estate Advertising Moving to Internet from Newspapers


The headline of this post, Real Estate Advertising Moving to Internet from Newspapers, may seem like a no kidding to those of us online, it is a scary reminder to the newspaper industry. The classified sections of the paper have lost a great deal of revenue from Craigslist and the Monster.com that have taken a good deal of the revenue from this section of the paper. Now real estate agents are wising up and starting to take their advertising out of the newspapers.

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Most real estate agents will tell you that classified advertising does not work for selling a home, but it is something that the sellers expect the agents to do. So they continue to plow money into a dry well, so to speak. But with the rise of the internet and tools that make the job easier, real estate agents are slowing moving their marketing dollars over to the new frontier.

While revenues from print real estate classified advertising seem to have grown steadily over the last five years, despite the emergence of the Internet, new data from Borrell Associates indicate that an increasing proportion of all real estate advertising spending will be done online in the future. By 2010, Borrell Associates expects 32.1% of the $9.6 billion spent on real estate advertising to be done online. This is up from 17.7% in 2006.

Additional findings from Classified Intelligence also confirm the changing dynamics of the real estate advertising sector. In a survey of more than 100 real estate agents conducted with RealtyTimes.com, 58% of respondents indicated they are raising their advertising budgets this year, but the majority said they would be spending the bulk of their money online on their own Web sites. Free Web sites such as Craigslist and Googlebase are also attracting an increasing proportion of real estate agents over traditional mediums such as local print. via eMarketer.com

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Where can I find a small wind energy windmill in Western Maryland?

I posted this question on Yahoo Answers:

I keep reading about home sized windmills. The only ones the government seems to be interested in are the humongous 3 bladed giants with 100 ft wingspans, not very practical for my back yard here in Frederick Maryland.

For wind energy facts for Maryland small wind energy turbines;
Go to http://www.reasonablepower.com .


Before you scream reverent praise for the 3 bladed "airfoil lifting" wind turbines, read this:

Source(s):


A report by Sandia National Laboratories. A report which says, in itself: "Issued by Sandia National Laboratories, operated for the United States Department of Energy by Sandia Corporporation", and, "NOTICE: This [the referenced] report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by agency of the United States Government."

I didn't know about the smaller multibladed wind mills.
And the low wind speed capability I thought was most interesting.

How to Sharpen Your Aim When Job Hunting Online

As Internet job boards continue to evolve, it can pay to stay current on the latest search tools and tactics. By learning how to use them, job hunters may be able to boost their chances of securing interviews.

Here are ways to make an online job-search effort more effective:

Find a hook. When an ad lists a hiring contact, research the person's background to get fodder for making a special connection, says Peter Weddle, chief executive officer of Weddle's, a Stamford, Conn., publisher of job-board guides.

You may have graduated from the same college or university or belong to the same professional association. Or, see if he or she has been cited in a news article so you can mention it, he suggests. "Then you can reach out to that person on a more personal basis, rather than as a cold applicant," he says. [Read this article to learn how to find a person to send your application to if the ad doesn't list a name.]

Donnetta Walker, 31, emailed a recruiter who was cited in a job ad she saw online in September. She found his email address through Google and wrote about how they were connected on the networking site LinkedIn.com, among other topics, she says. They exchanged emails, and the recruiter requested her resume. Sending it, she mentioned the ad, which sought a project manager at a telecommunications-software provider near her Atlanta home. A few days later the recruiter arranged an interview for her, and she's waiting to hear back, she says. She credits the tactic for getting her foot in the door. Whether or not she gets hired, she says, "I would do it again."

Other sites useful for uncovering connections include Ryze.com, ZoomInfo.com and Google, says Mr. Weddle.

Bear in mind that you might not always be successful. "We all have limited degrees of separation," he says.

Search your niche. Save time by focusing on sites that list openings exclusively in your area of interest, says Linda Matias, a career coach in Melville, N.Y. For example, if you work in the wine industry, check out WineJobs.com, which lists only jobs at wineries, vintners, distributors, wholesalers, bottlers and other related employers. Have your sights set on high pay? Search boards that advertise only jobs paying a minimum salary of $100,000 such as 6FigureJobs.com

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Now this one is my favorite story of the day:

Not paying enough to keep a motivated webmaster can come back and bite you in the Bailout!

Dominos website coding error leads to 11,000 FREE Pizzas

McIntyre said somebody discovered that the code word "bailout" was good for a free medium pizza ordered online. The information quickly spread Monday night on the Web, until the code was deactivated Tuesday morning.

Source: Yahoo

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Is your Maryland mover reputable? Rogue Movers Explained « Frederick Maryland Moving Companies

Rouge Moving Companies Explained
Type “move to Frederick Maryland” into Google and the majority of the listings Google returns are NOT moving companies.

What shows up at nearly all of the top organic listings are so called ”Moving Company Directories”. The highly skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) webmasters are staking out the keywords people search for

Nationally, the moving industry creates $16.5 billion each year in earnings, provides nearly 123,000 jobs and spends $7 billion on equipment, parts and supplies.


Sunday, March 22, 2009

Frederick News Post losing money?

Almost all local newspapers are on hard times

Here in Frederick, the Frederick News Post sent me a notice to the effect of:

The Frederick News-Post to end Monday edition
The Frederick News-Post will suspend printing its Monday edition starting in April, a measure the media company’s owning family said underscores a commitment to saving jobs and subscriber’s budgets. more »

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OPINION

Why It's OK for Newspapers to Die

The transition that's taking place in the news publishing industry -- from print to online -- is a healthy step in technology-driven evolution, though there will undoubtedly be some short-term pain. The loss of print newspapers is akin to the loss of the horse and buggy. The Internet offers the potential for broader and deeper news reporting.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print publication this week to focus solely on the Web, a transition that frightened some in the publishing business, coming so shortly after the Rocky Mountain News shut down. However, as many in the tech industry are aware, this is simply a form of "creative destruction" that should boost both choice and economic activity in the longer term.


"Creative destruction," a term coined by Joseph Schumpeter in his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, means exactly what it says -- the process by which a new technology or structure replaces the old and builds a new infrastructure. This is how progress happens and capitalism moves ahead. For a clear example, think back a century or so, when Henry Ford released his first prototype automobile, relegating the horse and buggy, and the buggy whip industry, to obsolescence.


Most would agree that such creative destruction resulted in a good outcome for society. Yet, not everyone is willing to let such revolutions take place without a fight. Indeed, some politicians have proposed bailing out newspapers, as the federal government has done for failing automakers.


he Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print publication this week to focus solely on the Web, a transition that frightened some in the publishing business, coming so shortly after the Rocky Mountain News shut down. However, as many in the tech industry are aware, this is simply a form of "creative destruction" that should boost both choice and economic activity in the longer term.


"Creative destruction," a term coined by Joseph Schumpeter in his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, means exactly what it says -- the process by which a new technology or structure replaces the old and builds a new infrastructure. This is how progress happens and capitalism moves ahead. For a clear example, think back a century or so, when Henry Ford released his first prototype automobile, relegating the horse and buggy, and the buggy whip industry, to obsolescence.


Most would agree that such creative destruction resulted in a good outcome for society. Yet, not everyone is willing to let such revolutions take place without a fight. Indeed, some politicians have proposed bailing out newspapers, as the federal government has done for failing automakers.


It is entirely possible that newspapers as we know them today may soon cease to exist. Still, as Johnson correctly points out, an examination of how the Web has evolved to cover technology news reveals the Net's potential for covering other topics as well.


"The state of Mac news in 1987 was a barren desert," Johnson said. "Today, it is a thriving rain forest. By almost every important standard, the state of Mac news has vastly improved since 1987: There is more volume, diversity, timeliness and depth."


That is what can and should happen to the local news -- and toward that end, Johnson has started Outside.in, a local news Web service.


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Issue 56

Life in Frederick Maryland


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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Frederick and Montgomery Job Fairs, are they worth it?

New Twist On Hiring: Group Interviews

More applicants are flocking to job fairs. Yet fewer companies participating. In Arizona, pretty much like everywhere else, employers adopt a wait-see attitude.

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The Arizona Department of Commerce reported Thursday that the rate is up from 7 percent in January and on pace to reach 8 percent in two to three months. It remains below the national rate of 8.1 percent.

But the official unemployment rate tells just part of the story. Experts are increasingly pointing out that such rates undercount the number of people who really want a job. Discouraged workers who aren't looking for a job and part-time employees who can't find full-time work typically aren't counted in the official unemployment rate.



Civil War Preservation Trust claims encroaching gas plant, incinerator site endangering Monocacy Battlefield.

March 19, 2009

A proposed trash incinerator and a planned natural gas plant threaten to encroach on two Civil War battlefield sites in Western Maryland, a preservation group warned yesterday.

The Washington-based Civil War Preservation Trust said recent developments have put the Monocacy National Battlefield near Frederick and South Mountain near Middletown on its list of the nation's most endangered battlefields from that war.

"In town after town, the irreplaceable battlefields that define those communities are being marred forever," said O. James Lighthizer, the trust's president.

Frederick County officials are weighing whether to build a $527 million waste-to-energy incinerator across the Monocacy River from the site of an 1864 clash when Confederate forces marched on Washington. The 350-foot smokestack from the incinerator, which would burn trash from Frederick and Carroll counties, would loom over the National Park Service site. A bill introduced in the Maryland Senate to bar incinerators within a mile of a national park has yet to be heard.

Issue #55

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