Tweet-up live at 3 p.m.

Your friends at DragonSearch Marketing are going to be at the Emerson Resort on Route 28 at 3 p.m. and will be livestreaming a 'Tweetup.'

Purpose?

Learn to Use Social Media to help Phoenicia! Join us at the Emerson on 2/4/11 for a Social Media workshop and How to Twitter primer. Tweet-Up participants will learn how to best use social media for promoting local events.

How to Promote “America’s Coolest Small Towns” Votes for Phoenicia, NY Through Social Media Networking

Phoenicia, if you need to know, wants to be the coolest small town in America.

It is currently on eight place.

Watch live streaming video from dragonsearch at livestream.com

Twitter News: Ghostface Killah in Poughkeepsie; 'Aladin' for governor; status updates about the dangers of status updates

News, as it breaks on Twitter:

* The Chance announces that Wu Tan Clan killer bee Ghostface Killah is coming to Poughkeepsie! (Protect ya neck!). Mr. Killah is promoting his latest album, "Ghostdini," with a tour a a series of not-safe-for-work Killah videos.

Just announced Killer cool presents GHOSTFACE KILLAH @ The Chance. Other Killer cool shows at the chance are CIRCA SURVIVE @ The Chance.less than a minute ago via FacebookThe Chance
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* YNN's Capital Tonight reports that Tea Party candidate 'Aladin' has a big sign.

If there's one thing this dude does well, it's BIG signs. http://twitpic.com/2og9x1less than a minute ago via TwitpicCapital Tonight
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* Rhinebeck's Suzanna Hermans notes that primaries are massive voter mobilizers, as in they're mobilized to not vote at all.

Yikes! Only 186 people have voted at my polling place today. For shame. There's still time! Polls close at 9pm.less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhoneSuzanna Hermans
oblongirl

* Kingston's Dragon Search staffers update their status by re-tweeting a nonexisting tweet warning you about updating your status.

RT @DragonSearch Beware the Status Update http://bit.ly/b989Abless than a minute ago via TweetMemeallison gray teetsel
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The Drangoneers, however, do not warn you that re-tweeting your employer's tweets only makes the posts seem more popular in an artificial way. Which reminds me:

* My employer, the Daily Freeman, tweets. A lot.

RT @PaulatFreeman: Ulster County bus driver busted for stealing fares http://t.co/rCJD7yH via @dailyfreemanless than a minute ago via TweetDeckDailyFreeman
DailyFreeman

* Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce is pretending to be Tatoo from "Fantasy Island."

just saw two big planes flying extremely, extremely close to each other. should be over by Millbrook now, any one got an eyeball onit?less than a minute ago via HootSuiteRhinebeckAreaChamber
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Meet featured blogger Claudia D'Arcy

Wearing her hat as a social media-person-expert-something, featured blogger Claudia D'Arcy has developed a personal policy for her online presence.

It's a good read, especially in the wake of the whole Facebook privacy issue.

You don't want to end up on some crazy person's video, after all ...

This week in blogdom-land-place-stuff-WHAAAA?

* Ulster County Legislator Michael Madsen talks about the Hudson Landing and probably needs a reminder that he's not in the Kingston Common Council anymore.

* Ulster County Legislator Mike Sweeney has a post that can be summarized in one word, "No."

* Kingston Alderwoman Andi-Turco Levin says that the city's planning board, "gave away the store." This being Kingston, I bet the store was a pharmacy.

* Kingston Alderman Bill Reynolds touts the bike racks on Broadway, and then posts this photo of people not using them.



I've got a better one:

FAIL!

* Also by Reynolds: CATS ATTACK!

WIN!

* The Ulster County Development Corporation likes booze.

* The UCDC also notes that The New York Times wrote about Rosendale (in April, you guys!) and the Walkway Over The Hudson on Monday. Unrelated attraction (as in, not in Ulster and not quite an "attraction"): the Newburgh gangs story by the Times on Tuesday - and FBI raids today.

* Kingston Main Street Manager Nancy Donskoj reminds you that Kingston is a destination. Also good for Kingston: Not being called Newburgh.

* The Kingston Neighborhood Watch IS WATCHING YOU! The group also has a new writer, Allison Teetsel, who - spoiler alert! - writes.

* KingstonCitizens.org talks about very foreign concepts called "taxes" and "voting." Strange stuff.

* In a moving post, Claudia D'Arcy shared that she did not quite enjoy Mother's Day and needed one more card, hopefully not like this one:



* Jen Kiaba talks about ... HER CAT!

* Ethan Barnett posts a video of a band with a name I can't pronounce. For the record, I also can't pronounce "juice." I'm told it sounds like "jews," which sounds pretty weird. Example: "Who drank my jews?"

* Bistro-to-go has a Popeye moment.

* Something's rotten in the state of Hudson Valley Gardens online.

* At the Farmer's Market shares a recipe for Rhubarb Ginger Syrup, not to be confused with high-fructose corn syrup.

* Over at Dragon Search, a blog about how to blog (Hint: don't write about how to blog); an online marketing post about peanuts; the successful UCDC tourism conference not being so successful; and hoking up (not in that way).

* Kingston Digital Corridor's Alex Brown talks about "common grounds" and drops the name of a crazy person who works at the Freeman.

Thursday blog bits

* Ulster Legislator Michael Madsen offers his thoughts on former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's sentencing, which will happen at any moment now, because that's an obvious issue of great importance for the Ulster County Legislature . Also, water, in bottles. Who knew?

* Ulster County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach continues his amazing maverick campaign which consists of linking to other people's stories.

* New featured blogger and Ulster County Legislator Mike Sweeney does a copy-and-paste job. Don't know how he does it.

* Kingston Alderwoman Andi Turco-Levin talks about Healthy Kingston for Kids. Here's an idea: High-fructose corn syrup!

* The unbiased Ulster County Development Corp. declares that the Ulster County Development Corp. toursim conference was a success.

* Kingston Main Street manager Nancy Doskoy catalogues the many venues in the city that feature music. Not mentioned, Snapper's Magges.

* Cool photographer Jen Kiaba takes Cool photos.

* New featured blogger and current Freeman intern Ethan Barnett finds The Last Of Our Kind. Spoiler alert: They're not the last of our kind.

* Over at Bistro To Go, it's time for Tabouli a food I can't cook nor pronounce.

* Hudson Valley Gardens was going to write about seeds, but figured it's easier to link to another blog about seeds.

* Over at Dragon Search, spiders (icky), social media fitness (fat?), something called the Google, and social media's cost per square foot, hopefully without spiders.