Westerville and Twitter

One of the many great things about living in Westerville is how active city departments are on Twitter.

It’s a great way of keeping up with what’s going on in the city.

All-City news and information:
@tellwesterville

Westerville Parks & Recreation (program news, announcements, cancellations)
@WestervillePark

Westerville Electric Division
(outages, alerts and energy tips)
@WvilleElectric

Westerville Division of Police
(public safety information, alerts)
@WestervillePD

Does your city government do Twitter?

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A couple of professional changes

Change can be an exciting thing.

I wanted to share I have accepted a full-time offer to become a Business Development Executive with Cybervation in Worthington to market their new NeedNexus membership product.

The site links Central Ohio service providers with those with job needs in the area. It’s a great way of putting more people to work, which is never a bad thing.

My duties there will include marketing and social media work for the company.

You find out more about NeedNexus by visiting its web site.

I would be honored if you would connect with the company at our Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn sites.

I’ll also be blogging for the business at http://www.neednexus.com/Blog.

In addition to my work with NeedNexus, I’m also working with The Ohio Insurance Institute on a consultant basis.

The organization offers support to auto, home and business providers.

My duties there include compiling the organization’s daily news briefs and social media help.

You can connect with the Ohio Insurance Institute on Facebook and Twitter.

I’m also working with The Frontier at Grace, View From The Pugh and Daily Referral Central Ohio and you can also connect with me through my personal blog.

With my added responsibilities, I have ended my consultant work as a supervisor with The Affinion Group in Westerville.

It truly is a bittersweet day for me.

The company really stepped up during a difficult time for me and shared a lot of kindness and patience with me over the past eight months.

I highly recommend the company for professionals going through transition or who want to try a new field.

I also want to thank Denise Clark, Dan Toland, Dan Farkas, Mackenzie Betts, Joe Franz, Erika Pryor, John Reed, Rick Starr and Grace Polaris Church, namely Pastor Beau Stanley, Bill Palmateer and John Noose for the professional confidence they have shown in me. It’s encouraged me to give back to those in professional need.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers for me over the past year.

I’m not sure what the future holds, but I’ve been blessed from above to walk this journey with some incredible people.

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Great advice on when to use pictures in social media

A picture tells a thousand words.

One of my goals in my personal and business use of social media is to post more pictures online.

But how do you determine the best use of pictures without spammimg your followers?

Peter Shankman has a great post on the Nine Best Practices for Linking Photos to Twitter.

What do you think about his tips?

Do you have any to add?

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Why it's important to safe-guard your career

The job market has changed dramatically in the past ten years.

People can change jobs quickly and jobs often come and go.

Lynda Gratton recently released the book “The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here” where she looks at the changing work environment.

She published a great blog in Forbes about 10 ways to future-proof your career.

The article is filled with great advice.

How are you currently safe-guarding your career?

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(EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Lara Kretler for sharing the article)

View From The Pugh: Why I do it

(EDITOR’S NOTE: “Why I Do It” is an occasional series looking at my blog projects).

When I worked at The News-Herald in Willoughby, I was hired as a copy editor, but I also enjoyed writing.

The paper gave a lot of great chances to write, from covering high school football and basketball games to writing religion articles.

It was a great experience and opportunity for me.

I’ve always been interested in church events and local Christian concerts, so with the encouragement of Executive Editor Glenn Gilbert, I launched View From The Pugh, which is a bi-weekly look at events in Lake, Cuyahoga, Geauga and Ashtbaula counties.

I enjoyed the column immensely and I loved building relationships with pastors and youth leaders in addition to local and national musicians.

Several years passed and I find myself in Columbus now.

Central Ohio is a great place with so much for families to do.

And I missed writing about faith events.

So I re-launched View From The Pugh in blog format,

I started to only write about Central Ohio family and faith events, but have since expanded it to write each day about events throughout Ohio as well.

It’s not a comprehensive list by any means, but it’s a creative outlet for me I enjoy doing.

I appreciate the readership the blog has received as well as the attention from publicists in the industry.

I encourage you to check it out and share with your friends.

You can also like the page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/viewfromthepugh and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/viewfromthepugh

You can also send press releases for family and faith events to viewfromthepugh@yahoo.com

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