From the category archives:

Promoting Durham

Football is Over and the Boo birds Come Out

December 7, 2009
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College athletics will never be reformed because the would be reformers have it all wrong. I graduated from Notre Dame in the sixties with a degree in English Lit and some swag to remind me that I was a small part of a National Championship football team. Now that I live in Durham I follow [...]

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Design Sponge City Guide to Durham

December 3, 2009
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Via Downtown Durham Inc and its newsletter we find an interesting “city guide” to Durham. The guide was created on Design Sponge which describes itself as a “daily site for home and product design” and visually it is very attractive. The Durham guide is one of many city guides on the site and if you [...]

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Pride in Durham

November 30, 2009
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I collect most of my RSS feeds in Google Reader and I’ve found so many interesting ones to follow that sometimes I get way behind reading them…it’s kind of like unread magazines used to stack up unread when print media was more fashionable. I was catching up after the Thanksgiving holidays and came across a [...]

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Triangle Business Development

November 17, 2009
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It has been my privilege over the last few years to write-up some of the more interesting programs of the Downtown Durham Rotary for its bulletin. One of the reasons that I am so fond of the Rotary and this club is because its membership includes a lot of folks who have deep personal and [...]

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Why a Blog?

October 23, 2009
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Blogging and “social media” have been hot topics in the real estate industry but most agents don’t blog or even have a website.  So, why me? There are a couple of reasons.  The first is that I can. I enjoy writing and the challenge of mastering the technology. Love it or hate it, I’ve written [...]

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Durham – A Great Place to Live

October 20, 2009
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It took a while but I finally figured out how to place photos in the “media box” at the top of the column on the right of this page. Of the five pictures in the rotation only one, the aerial shot of Duke Chapel, was of something that was here in 1984 when I moved [...]

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Durham is…

August 19, 2009
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As the chair of the PR committee for the Downtown Durham Rotary Club I often end up writing the report on the program for the weekly bulletin. Last Monday, Tom Bonfield, Durham’s new city manager and a member of the club presented the program. I’m re-publishing my write-up here because Mr. Bonfield made such a [...]

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More on the Durham School System

July 19, 2009
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The picture above is a from a story in the Baltimore Sun about the importance of schools in home buyers assessment of a community. Even folks without school age children often consider the schools as an indicator of the overall livability of a community. This also supports the larger point that many listing agents and [...]

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Good News for Durham

July 16, 2009
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There are two things I’m very proud of in terms of my involvement in the community over the years. The first was the small role I played in the late 80′s in downtown revitalization getting Downtown Durham, Inc. off the ground with a coherent marketing theme. During that same time frame as the Marketing Director [...]

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