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Social Media and Why to Be Social

Arleigh Jenkins — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:02:56 +0000

It seems in the past couple years social media has become a trend. Everyone is on their soap box about how they are a social media guru and how they can make you a social media expert.

Slow down people, social media is wrapped around one thing – socializing honest content.

In the past years I’ve been to many social media events, Tweetups or gatherings of other like-minded nerds. There are a few that stand out to me that made those events worth my money.

Live tweets : Meet the people around you and give feedback without interrupting. Encourage the live tweets and interaction.
Video or Podcast of the Event : Sometimes I don’t take the best notes, or my voice recorder times out. Podcast or video online is an amazing resource for 2 weeks or 2 months after the event.
Break out sessions : I enjoy when there are multiple events to chose from at one time. Have different levels of talks, from the expert to the beginner, and in between.
Make sure to get someone stuck in an elevator for a good story for years after.
Encourage interaction : Be social, be active and be real.

Image credit : SocialFresh.com

Cyclocross on a Tuesday Night

Arleigh Jenkins — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:34:54 +0000

All photos from Wonderful Billy Fehr.

BMX Bikes are Landing

Arleigh Jenkins — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:35:48 +0000

There is no hiding the fact that I’ve been trying to “rip it up” at the local BMX track. Our 8 year old has really gotten into it, and the fact that I’ve been helping everyone out there with mechanical help too.

The shop has allowed me to pull in a small order of Redline bikes to see if we can get some kids out in a new sport. So let’s take a look at what we’ll have in this coming Thursday.

MX Expert $324

MX-24 $339

Proline Expert $399

Proline Mini $369

Proline Micro $399

Rival 18 $219

Romp III $249

Raid Freewheel $199

Roam $209

Wed Nite Race 7.8.09

Arleigh Jenkins — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:29:00 +0000

Officially by the dates we are half way through the Wednesday Night MTB Series. There was two rain outs, so by the numbers we aren’t half way done yet.

Last race I DNF’d. Moving up to Sport was a crappy move on my part, twice as long of a track at the hardest course in the series - US National Whitewater Center. Okay, it’s really not a hard trail.. but on a singlespeed, out of shape, dehydrated and on a pretty damn hot day.. the course sucks. Especially when you have to go around the whole thing twice. So I quit, I rode slowly through the last half of the course after bonking with a co-worker. Thankfully he was there to get me through the woods.

That was two weeks ago, since I have actually ridden my bike, rode a mountain bike off road a couple times and done a little bit of unorganized/thought out training. This week I had a mission to complete. That is goal #1 this season, complete the Sport races. Thankfully Stephanie stuck with me and got me through the course.

Last, but not a quitter. 9 more races to figure out what Goal #2 is.

Long Drive Home

Arleigh Jenkins — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:55:32 +0000

At about 2-3pm today we will be driving south to Charlotte, NC from our travels in Annapolis, MD. The trip was well rounded, good down time and many photos taken. The goal for me right now is to return a tent at Hudson Trail Outfitters, eat sushi at Yin Yankee (before I decide not to and regret it for the month) and maybe, if time allows, visit Velo Orange to say hi to Tom and buy something I don’t need! I got sweet new shoes, ate good food, and hate the fact that vacation is over for now but ready to get back to Charlotte to start “training” (not eating like crap) for my tri! Tomorrow I race my mountain bike, even after not having looked at a bike in over a week. Should be thrilling, grueling and maybe even a little bit of fun.

But before I ramble on I need to go pack and all those good things.