A couple of speaking gigs coming up

by Jeremy Vaught

Happening on September 14th. Kevin Spidel (@kspidel)  and I are talking about how Social Media is being used to in political campaigns. (I don’t talk about it here much, but I’m a Web Strategist for John McCain’s 2010 Senate Campaign) Check out JoinAZIMA.org for more.   And coming even sooner, Scottsdale Camp on April 24th [...]

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Social Media 101: Owning your name

by Jeremy Vaught

This is an update to my post from earlier this month, “Do you own YOU?” You have to own your name(?) I argued in that post that everyone should own their own name.  Well I’ve given that some thought, and have decided that is not ultimately true.  And truth be told, I knew it when [...]

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Social Media and the Arizona State Government

by Jeremy Vaught

This post is was going to be a part of a series of posts about Social Media in the Arizona State Government inspired by the potential of incoming Governor Jan Brewer’s administration to use Social Media much more prominently than has been done up until now.  More info on brewertransition.org & twitter. Scratch that!  That [...]

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The Social Media Expert Question

by Jeremy Vaught

The Social Media Expert Question Posted using ShareThis I was hoping ShareThis would post the video, but alas, it did not, so let’s just roll with it.  Click the link to see the video, or check it out on Facebook. I’m not going to add much to this, but I did just recently mention CC [...]

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Do you own YOU?

by Jeremy Vaught

I’m reading the news this morning, and two things really collided in the metaspace between my ears.  Who owns YOU? Part 1 Let me set this up… I’m not as old school Internet as some people my age, I got on in 1993 with a 14.4 modem on a 386 33Mhz computer.  I know, I’m [...]

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jeremyvaught.com is turning the corner

by Jeremy Vaught

This blog is written by me, Jeremy Vaught.  I have spent years pondering exactly what this blog should accomplish, and I have finally figured it out. What you have seen up until now Chaos, basically.  Whatever I wanted to write about, I threw it down here.  I have written about trips I’ve taken, what I’m [...]

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Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference 2008

by Jeremy Vaught

I love conferences <3 I love attending them because of three things. The people I meet, the people I already know that I catch up with, and the panels/speakers I get to attend and learn from. All three of these help me to think of things in a new way and motivate me. This should [...]

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More thoughts on blogging and myself

by Jeremy Vaught

I’ve been going around and around and around lately about what my strategy will be for my blogging life. One of my most recent is, “what if I create a blog for everything I find interesting?” So just thinking out loud here… this is an interesting idea. I would effectively have a blog for each [...]

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I have Xacti lust again

by Jeremy Vaught

This last weekend I attended PocampAZ.  And I re-realized that I want a Xacti for filming video.  I want to make videos, and the Xacti seems to be the best package. My friends Mark Forman and Clintus McGintus both have the Sanyo Xacti waterproof edition and rave about it. Here is the quick rundown from [...]

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If you write a blog, why are you hiding?

by Jeremy Vaught

My original title was, “If you write a blog, make yourself contactable,” but I’m pretty certain that contactable isn’t a real word.  However, I think you get the point.  Why don’t you allow yourself to be contacted? There are many times I want to contact a blogger, and their contact information is non-existant.  It’s like [...]

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