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Maura Neill

About Maura Neill

Maura Neill is a Realtor® and partner in The Gebhardt Group. A lover of all things Atlanta, Maura is also founder and editor of Atlanta: 365 Days, 365 Things To Do, a hyperlocal travel resource and magazine for newcomers and natives. She knows how to build a business via social media. Maura is passionate about Atlanta, dark chocolate, musical theater, dark beer, shoes, and her Wonder Beagle, Charlie. Facebook: http://facebook.com/mauraneill Twitter: @mauraneill

Don’t Be a QR Code Dummy

by Maura Neill

November 30, 2011  |  23 Comments

Let’s talk about QR codes. Let’s forget that they’re trendy. Let’s forget that they’ve been the subject of much buzz. Let’s forget that the instructor in the last class you took at your local Board or most recent conference told you that without QR codes you will be left behind in the virtual dust as [...]

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Super, Simple Tips for Getting Started with Video on Your iPhone

by Maura Neill

November 14, 2011  |  6 Comments

There was a time in the not-too-distant past that I was afraid of video. I have some very good friends who made it look so easy (I’m looking at you, Brian Copeland and Dale Chumbley), and I thought I would rather refrain from doing video altogether than put out videos that couldn’t match up to [...]

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Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Surprising. What Does it Mean to You? – Part II

by Maura Neill

November 1, 2011  |  1 Comment

This is Part Two of a two-part post. You can read part one here and then read on for more of what we REALTORS® can learn about social media from an author, a pastor, a news parody digital director, a rock star, and a news anchor. “Living in the Age of Social Media: The Good, [...]

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Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Surprising. What Does it Mean to You? – Part I

by Maura Neill

October 28, 2011  |  6 Comments

This is Part One of a two-part post – click here to continue reading part two! An author, a pastor, a news parody digital director, a rock star, and a news anchor walk into an auditorium… Sort of sounds like the beginning of a long (and possibly confusing) joke, doesn’t it? Instead, it was the [...]

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5 Simple Tips to Make Your Facebook Business Page More Likable

by Maura Neill

October 19, 2011  |  33 Comments

[Author’s Note: No doubt by now you’ve read Chris Smith’s article from earlier this week, “You Need to Delete Your Facebook Business Pages Immediately.” If you have yet to heed Chris’s advice and simply hit the delete button OR you took his instruction as a personal challenge to improve your Facebook Business Page, read on [...]

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Keeping It Simple – 5 Tips to Bust Through Blog Content Barriers

by Maura Neill

August 8, 2011  |  10 Comments

In may past life, I taught Freshman English Composition at Florida State University and then reading and writing to middle school students. When it came to writing, my students would get caught up in what to write about and how to get started. You are probably not much different from those students. When it comes [...]

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Data Syndication – What is All the Fuss About

by Maura Neill

July 25, 2011  |  10 Comments

Hotly-debated issues often have me feeling like a filmmaker for National Geographic or The Discovery Channel – I am the casual observer, wary of getting involved in the lives of my subjects, allowing them to go about their lives and their business without my intervention. We don’t always understand why they do what they do, [...]

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Facebook vs. Face-to-Face: Does It Really Have to Be One or the Other?

by Maura Neill

July 14, 2011  |  3 Comments

Whenever I speak about social media in general and Facebook in particular — whether it’s at a national conference or a local chamber of commerce — I generally encounter two camps of people: those who set a lot of store by social media and those who don’t. Those who believe that Facebook is the business [...]

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Confessions of a 365-er,
 Or Take It From Me: Don’t Do It

by Maura Neill

July 9, 2011  |  5 Comments

On February 17, 2010, I embarked on a year of insanity – at least that’s how I view it now, looking back. On that day, I started 365Atlanta.com. I didn’t stop to think that it would take over my life and consume me, cut into my personal time, my family time, my me time. I [...]

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