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FIVE Favorite Western MA Blogs

western ma blogsSo, outside of my own blogs (which you are already reading, right? I have this one, my distressed homeowner one and one about musical theater for kids), I love exploring the posts of other Western Massachusetts residents.

Today I want to share my favorites with you and I hope you will peruse their posts and enjoy as much as I do.

#1- Exploring Western Massachusetts.
This blog is an everything Western MA site with wonderful posts about events, places and history of this great part of the world.

#2- The Jump, WriterJax
The musings of the eclectic and entertaining Jaclyn Stevenson. You just never know what you will find when you visit this blog, but it is always fun!

#3- Holyoke Home
from their about section: One couple. One dog. One garden. One achingly lovely historic brick row house in Holyoke, Massachusetts. One very cool city. One VERY LONG renovation ‘wish list.’ One project at a time? We’ll see. I love antique homes and can appreciate what they are sharing through their process. Also a very positive view of the city of Holyoke.

#4- Berkshire Country Homes
Even though my town of Westfield is just at the foothills of the Berkshires, every time I visit those lovely mountains I feel that I am a world away. Marlene’s posts take me there when I don’t have time to drive.

#5- Cooper Green Design
While I don’t know this designer personally, I enjoy learning about Green living architecture and find this blog to be a great resource and food for thought.

BONUS

#6- Wooing Your TQ
This one is really #1 for me, but since it is ABOUT me, I thought I should share it as a bonus. Morriss has created this lovely homage to our romance and I find it very sweet and inspirational!

I am always on the lookout for new local blogs to peruse…what do you recommend?

Why are there so many brick homes in South Hadley and Chicopee, MA?

Western  Massachusetts just got walloped with two big snow storms and most of us are snowed in.  While working from home today I asked on Twitter if there was anything real estate related that my Western Massachusetts friends would like me to write about. I got this question from Karen Lynn @sipclipandgo on Twitter, who owns a 1953 brick home in the area:

I’d like to know why there are so many brick homes in South Hadley and Chicopee.

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So, I embarked on some good old fashioned research on Google and discovered a few clues, but not as much information as I would have thought.

I suspected that there must have been a local brickyard and after quite a lot of digging around I found that South Hadley was home to Robinson’s Brickyard.  Interestingly, there isn’t much information available on this business, at least that I could find.

What I did discover, though, was that the heyday of this brickyard was in the late 1800’s and the brick homes that are in question were built largely in the 1950’s.

So, I turn this question over to you…

Do you know why brick construction is so prevalent in South Hadley and Chicopee, MA?  Inquiring minds want to know!

4 BR Cape For Sale: 69 Ridgeway, Westfield, MA

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RENOVATED, REDUCED AND READY!


Renovated, Reduced and READY!


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$180,000
Single Family Home
Main Features
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathroom
Interior: 1100 sqft
Lot: 15,687 sqft
Location
69 Ridgeway
Westfield, MA 01085
USA
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PodCamp Western MA 3! Return of the PodCamp, or The PodCamp Strikes Back

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I am writing this to encourage anyone within driving distance of Westfield, MA to join the fun the weekend of February 4 & 5, 2011 at PodCamp Western MA 3.

The weekend is going to start off rocking on Friday night, February 4th, with Jon Berman opening for The Jeff Michaels Band at the Westwood in Westfield, MA. This is a FREE concert event and you do not have to attend the PodCamp functions to come enjoy these amazing musicians. Here is a sample of what you might hear from the Jeff Michaels Band.

On Saturday the 5th Westfield State University will host PodCamp Western MA 3 in the Horace Mann Center. This is an unconference on all things social media and internet based. For the low entry fee of $25 you will get a t-shirt, coffee, lunch and a day loaded with amazing content. Attendees will have the choice of sessions such as: “Facebook Privacy”, “Job Hunting”, “Social Media 101”, “I’m on Linkedin, Now What?”, “The Future of the Web: The Next Wave After Social”, and I will faciliate a sharing session on “How to shoot, edit and post a video in 15 minutes with your iPhone”.

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These are just a sample of the types of sessions that will be held throughout the course of the day. There are also open rooms for impromtu tracks to be posted as needed, so if you have something you want to facilitate and share you can.

I have attended the past two PodCamp Western MA and have learned a ton and met some amazing people both times. My first PodCamp post “A PodCamp Virgin Tells All” and my thoughts after my second experience “This One Time at Podcamp” and the video from PodCamp Western MA 2.

Following a fabulous day of learning, we will continue to put the social in social media at The Tavern on Broad Street in Westfield, MA.

I hope I will see you at at least some of the functions, but it is going to be a weekend of fun, sharing and learning that you won’t want to miss! Come get your geek on at PodCamp and learn why everyone at PodCamp is a rock star!

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Does Your Western MA REALTOR Do This? Online Open House

house for sale at 81 woodmont, westfield, maEveryone is busier than ever and many of us don’t have the free time to visit open houses, even if we do want to buy a home in Western Massachusetts.

Today was an especially cold day, the kind that no one leaves home unless they really need to. Park Square Realty had already scheduled an open house for my new listing at 81 Woodmont Street, Westfield, MA and decided that I would use the time at my property to try a new technique: Online Virtual Open House.

I used my iPhone to live stream from the property. The format shows the viewer a live video along with sound and a chat room so that viewers can type questions or converse with each other. While showing the property I offered to answer any questions the viewers may have about the house or real estate in Westfield, MA. As they typed their questions to me, I answered them out loud in real time.

I got wonderful feedback from the viewers that attended, in a poll of the the viewers 100% of them thought it was a good format and enjoyed being able to see a house this way.

If you want a Western MA real estate agent that is innovative, hard working and can provide proven results, call me, Lesley Lambert at Park Square Realty. I am working every day to provide new marketing services to augment my strong traditional marketing techniques. I would love the opportunity to meet with you personally and discuss all the tools I use to get my Western MA homes for sale SOLD.

Here is the video from the open house at 81 Woodmont Street, Westfield, MA:

What do you think? Do you like this added service? Would you like your REALTOR to offer services like this?