Off Topic: Social Networkers More Likely to Participate in Voluntary Groups.

Thanks to tip from beSpacfic, Pew report is HERE.

75% of all American adults are active in some kind of voluntary group or organization and internet users are more likely than others to be active: 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. Moreover, social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter users are group participants."

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

I'm Now Using Twitter to Track 50 Housing Sources for You; How You Can Keep Up.

I am increasing the use of Twitter to provide more rapid updates on items that are typically short posts.  

I find Twitter a very useful tool to get timely updates from a number of sources; I "follow" nearly 50 different sources of local, state, and national housing information on Twitter and have also taken to selectively posting key blog posts from the Oregon Housing Blog to my Twitter feed.

For short items, it's a lot easier and faster for me to tweet or retweet [rt] instead of putting together a separate blog post that often is only a link to the original source material.

To make my tweets readily available I have added a running list of my most recent 5 twitter feeds in the right pane of the blog; look for the list with the black background. (A simple click on the Oregonhousing header in that pane will open Twitter to show all of my tweets)

Note that those twitter feeds will NOT appear in the daily email consolidated update that many subscribers to the blog use. (I have yet to find a way to add those twitter feeds in the daily email update that many receive).

Suggestions, IF you want to keep up with my housing related tweets: 

1. Strongly recommended--Establish a free Twittter account, then "Follow" my oregonhousing Twitter feed [You can also get twitter feeds on your mobile phone, most smart phones have Twitter APPS]. 

2. Bookmark my blog and check in on the right pane occasionally to see the latest tweets from my Twitter feed.

3. Bookmark my Twitter feed directly HERE and check in occasionally to see the latest tweets. 

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Tip: New Social Networking Add on at Bottom of Each Post.

I have added a new feature to each blog post to facilitate easy sharing with others. 

At the bottom of each post icons like those in the picture embedded in this post now appear in a single line toolbar. 

Clicking on any one of the icons in that toolbar (found at the BOTTOM of each post) will provide a EASY, direct way to share that blog post via email, Google Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, or Google Buzz. (Give it a spin, I think you will find these social networking tools VERY easy to use).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.