Looking at my people count on compete it’s pretty clear that I haven’t posted anything in a while. I’ve been really busy with work during Q1 working on the search engine marketing aspect of a new site that we launched here. The website is called frontdoor.com and it’s a real estate website. The real estate industry is seeing some pretty tough times right now, but I really think our site has legs since it offers much more than just listings. Check it out and let me know what you think.

HGTV FrontDoor Real Estate - Powered by HGTV with homes for sale, buying and selling tips and more

I have truly enjoyed my job on the newspaper side which started out three years ago as a Site Manager for Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers (tcpalm.com) and then brought me to the corporate newspaper team here in Knoxville, May of 2007. I’m moving on now…

I’ve accepted a position with Scripps Networks our sister division who owns HGTV, Food Network, and other Lifestyle Networks. I will be working with the Search Marketing team that is being developed and I can say that they are a great group. I’m excited to bring my knowledge and skills to the network side and to learn from the talent that is already in place.

I’ll still be in Knoxville, actually working in the building we were in previous to our move a few months ago. It’s going to be tough leaving the Newspaper division and a great boss and friend, but tough decisions typically aren’t easy ones. I wish everyone on the newspaper side the best and I eagerly look forward to their innovations from an extremely talented group of professionals.

We all enjoy getting schwag at trade shows, through the mail or wherever else you get it from. I know going to conferences I try to snag up as much free goodness as possible. With that being said, Tamar Weinberg from SERoundtable has started a new site dedicated to all her freebies with photos called Schwag Addict.

Google has been sending out their gifts as of late and today I saw I had a box from them. To my surprise it was an awesome Flip Video Ultra. I’ve already started playing around with it, and its really slick. It shoots up to 30 minutes of video at high quality. I’ve got a picture of it below. Thanks Google!

I came across this video on Andy Beal’s site and thought it was great. This stuff is so true.