Today, I was fortunate enough to featured by the wonderfully talented Kim Randall on her Not Just Another Blog. Throughout the year she is running a very creative series called Rockin’ It In 2010 that profiles people that are having a good time and successfully applying what they’ve learned about social media.It is an honor to be selected!

To qualify to be “Rockin’ ” you have to be nominated by someone. I was nominated by my good friend Michele Northrup, owner of the Intensity Academy hotsauce company and maker of the sauces that we GIVE AWAY FOR FREE to patients at Bright Eyes.

A big thanks to Kim!

See well!

Dr. Nate
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
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I hope no one minds if I take a quick moment to highlight some of the things have have been written about me and Bright Eyes Family Vision Care recently. I’d like to add that not only would this aggregation of links not be possible, but none of the individual articles, blogs and comments would have been written if it were not for social media. This is just one more  example of how cool social media is for small business.

See well!

-Dr. Nate
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
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Interviews with Dr. Bonilla-Warford about Social Media & Business

Inside the Marketer’s Studio: Fresh Eyes on Social Media

Sticks of Fire: Bright Eyes Sees Social Media Work

Local Shops1.com:  Dr. Nate Bonilla-Warford, Bright Eyes Family Vision Care

Articles mentioning Bright Eyes and Social Media

Dominick Maino, OD – Digital Social Networking & Health Care Education

Blogs about Dr. Bonilla-Warford and Bright Eyes:

Kim Randall’s Not Just Another Blog: Rockin’ 2010 with Dr. Nate

Krystal’s Kitsch: I officially have four eyes now

The Wine Whore: Sight for Sore Eyes

Bright Eyes News is BACK on Technorati! A long time ago it, was listed, then it was dropped. Now there are so many blogs that the confirmation/evaluation period takes weeks to complete. Now we are back as one of the few eye doctors with blog, we have an authority of 116!

Here is the full link:

http://technorati.com/blogs/brighteyesnews.com

So next time you are on Technorati, drop us a comment or make us your favorite!

Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD, FAAO
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
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Westchase, Tampa, FL
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I have been waiting for this day for some time. And I am so excited, I’m going to use a large heading:

FOURSQUARE HAS COME TO TAMPA!

Don’t know what foursquare is? It is an online system to track the places that you go and finding out where you friends are. Sound goofy? Check out this CNN article, and see why it might be a big deal.

I have already checked in to to several places in Westchase today. It is fun because there isn’t much action in Tampa, yet. You get to be first.

Bright Eyes is now a foursquare venue, so while you are here for an exam or getting glasses or contacts, why not check in? To encourage people to check in, we’ll even give a discount to whoever is the current mayor of Bright Eyes. Just let us know when you make your purchase.

Have fun out there, TPA!

Dr. Bonilla-Warford
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
Westchase, Tampa, FL
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The other day I downloaded Chris Brogan and Julian Smith’s “Trust Agents” to listen to in the car on my way to and from work. I don’t remember where, but I had heard some positive things and wanted to check it out.

I’m about halfway through and liking it so much, that I wanted to establish a social media reading list. I just read Tribes, by Seth Godin on recommendation from Julia Gorzka and I already knew that I wanted to read Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Crush It” next, but what after that?

So did a very informal poll on Twitter and here are the tweets I received:

@JuliaGorzka: Post Tribes Reading List: Groundswell by Charlene Li & Josh Bernhoff. Lots of great examples.

@JuliaGorzka:  Re-Imagine by Tom Peters, currently reading & loving Re-Imagine by Tom Peters

@tweetmaker: Serious about SMM? Read @google (Kaushik Avinash) blog and peruse Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” frequently.

When I joked that I probably wasn’t *that* serious….

@tweetmaker: My thrust: Insights about how one might approach & leverage SMM abound in sources where no direct mention of SMM exists.

@social_forces: Gladwell’s “Tipping Point” and Godin’s “Ideavirus” for a 1-2 punch?

I mentioned I hadn’t heard of “Ideavirus”

@social_forces: It’s a fine read. What Godin lacks vs Gladwell’s eloquence, he makes up 4 w/ practical application. Like a “how to” for tipping pts.

@missdestructo Hmm. How To Win Friends and Influence People is a good start…. then as far as SM goes, I love Trust Agents.

@GiftsTV current ones I’m reading – Word of Mouth Marketing – Andy Sernovitz and Six Pixels of Seperation – Mitch Joel – others you found ?

@lizzharmon: That’s tough. Hard to narrow it down to 2: Trust Agents & Tribes; also Socialnomics & Twitter Power. I read a lot.

@lizzharmon: I think I’d add Groundswell and anything by Brian Solis.

@chrisbrogan: The New Community Rules by @tamar, and Six Pixels of Separation by @mitchjoel

And my favorite…..

@NetWeave BTW, I know some folks will disagree heartily with me, that’s just my opinion.I believe that any book on SM is obsolete by the time the ink dries. Spend your reading time on @Mashable, @TechCrunch, etc.

So there you go. That should keep you busy until the new year. And by then you’ll have a bunch more to read.

If you have other suggestions of read books, please leave a comment so I can add them to the list.

Happy Reading.

Dr. Bonilla-Warford
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
Westchase, Tampa, FL
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