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Win a $20k Down Payment from Homefinder.com & SCVNGR

Matt Fagioli — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:47:57 +0000

$20,000 will be hidden in an open house in Atlanta on September 25th (2010)

Ready for some fun, challenges and an ultimate grand prize? Then join the HomeFinder.com Race for the Home, a city-wide scavenger hunt of actual open houses for buyers to find their Atlanta dream house!

In this high-tech hunt, all of the challenges will be delivered via text message right to a player’s cell phone. Any cell phone, any model, on any carrier can play. But spots are limited and players must secure a spot to participate.

Here’s the details:

What	A high-tech race to find your dream home and be the winner of a $20,000 down payment cash prize courtesy of Suntrust Mortgage and Weissman, Norwack, Curry & Wilco P.C
When	Saturday, September 25th starting at 9 AM
Where	Kickoff and Registration at Piedmont Park (Oak Hill) at 9 AM. After Party at Max Lager’s Wood Fired Grill & Brewery at 2 PM.
Who	You! Any couple or team of two can participate! All ages 18 years or older are welcome. Register today and tell us why you should be chosen to play!

Gwinnett Sex Offenders & Arrests

Matt Fagioli — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:05:16 +0000

If you’re interested in homes for sale here in Hamilton Mill or anywhere in Gwinnett County, it would be a great idea to take a look at some of this information.

Gwinnett websites allow you to set up automated alerts for sex offenders living in the area of your current or future home. Another site notifies you of all daily arrests by zipcode for all of Gwinnett.

Here’s the link to set up alerts for Gwinnett County sex offenders

This one is for the GwinnettMugs.com arrest record alerts by zipcode

Check it out before you buy your new house in Gwinnett

The New Words in The Dictionary

Matt Fagioli — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:45:04 +0000

Got this list from Time Magazine (really via @twitter ). As always, some interesting stuff on this list. Lately, so much of these lists are driven by the web. Amazing that the course of our entire vocabulary is mostly driven by our online interactions. The term “Social Media” has become so ubiquitous in my world that I really don’t want to hear it anymore. Anybody with me? It’s like that song on the radio that’s just been played to death! But, I digress…

I’d like to suggest a few additions of my own, such as Escape Velocity and Man-Friend (a term my daughter uses to describe friends of mine that are the other fathers of her softball teammates)

Here’s the Time Mag list:

chill pill a notional pill taken to make someone calm down
chillax calm down and relax
turducken a roast dish consisting of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey
bargainous costing less than is usual or than might be expected; cheap or relatively cheap
staycation holiday spent in one’s home country
fussbudget a fussy person
vuvuzela long horn blown by fans at soccer matches
national treasure someone/thing regarded as emblematic of a
nation’s cultural heritage
buzzkill a person or thing that has a depressing or dispiriting effect
social media websites and applications used for social networking
microblogging the posting of very short entries on a blog
netbook small light laptop
dictionary attack an attempt to gain illicit access to a computer system by using a very large set of words to generate potential passwords
paywall an arrangement whereby access is restricted to users who have paid to subscribe to a website
freemium a business model, especially on the Internet, whereby basic services are provided free of charge while more advanced features must be paid for
automagically automatically and in a way that seems ingenious, inexplicable, or magical
carbon capture and storage the process of trapping and storing carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels
geoengineering manipulation of environmental processeses in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming
toxic debt debt which has a high risk of default
deleveraging the process or practice of reducing the level of one’s debt by rapidly selling one’s assets
overleveraged having taken on too much debt
quantitative easing the introduction of new money into the money supply by a central bank
exit strategy a pre-planned means of extricating oneself from a situation
overthink think about (something) too much or for too long
catastrophizing view or present a situation as considerably worse than it actually is
soft skills personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people
matchy-matchy excessively colour-coordinated
LBD little black dress
frenemy a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry
cheeseball lacking taste, style, or originality
cool hunter a person whose job it is to make observations or predictions about new styles and trends
hikikomori the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males (in Japan)
steampunk a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advance technology
tweetup a meeting organized by means of posts on Twitter
bromance a close but non-sexual relationship between two men
wardrobe malfunction an instance of a person accidentally exposing an intimate part of their body as a result of an article of clothing slipping out of position
defriend another term for unfriend (remove someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site)
Interweb the Internet
hater negative person

(originally posted via ForwardSlashLife.com)

Hamilton Mill Golf Tournament / October 21, 2010

Matt Fagioli — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:36:47 +0000

The ‘96 Worth Cobras Softball Team is seeking the National ASA Championship during their second season at the Girls 14u level and the upcoming 2010/2011 season.

The team is hosting a full-field open golf tournament to raise money for their upcoming bid for the national title!!

All are welcome so why not bring your best buddies for the 4 man best ball event on Thursday October 21, 2010. All the details are at 96Cobras.com

12 Stone Church Saturday Campus is Coming September 18th

Matt Fagioli — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:33:25 +0000

If you’ve been planning to visit 12 Stone Church but had trouble finding the right schedule for you, something cool is coming. Starting September 18, 2010, there will be two Saturday night services at the Hwy 20 campus – 5pm and 645pm.

They are calling it “Saturday Campus” because it’s really a completely seperate team from the Sunday. Saturday will have it’s own awesome worship team and campus pastor plus a totally unique set of volunteers to run the childrens ministry, usher team, etc. It takes a small village to make it happen when the Church seats 2500 people!

Right now you can get connected to the Saturday Night Campus via facebook or contact 12Stone Church at 678.990.8100

Hamilton Mill Golf Club / Canongate

Matt Fagioli — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:50:05 +0000

Are you looking for Hamilton Mill Golf Club? The actual golf course information?

I get lots of people stopping by this site who need the golf club contact info, so here you go!!

Hamilton Mill Golf Club is actually part of the Canongate family of golf courses. Here’s a link to their 27 courses around Atlanta.

If you want membership information, contact Stacey Matsche at 678.794.0763

psst… tell her we sent ya!

If you want to book a Hamilton Mill tee time, call 770.945.4653

The address for the club is:

1995 Hamilton Mill Parkway
Dacula, GA 30019

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Hamilton Mill or Hell’s Kitchen!

Matt Fagioli — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:58:43 +0000

We’ve had one of the hottest summers on record this year. And, for the first week of Gwinnett Schools, we’re hitting 95 degrees almost everyday! Bad news? Maybe. But, lets not forget that we have generally mild winters here in Metro Atlanta and amazing weather spring and fall (come on fall!!).

Of course, you can cool off at the Hamilton Mill pools or the lakes.

Here’s a quick link to the current local weather here in the 30019

Mill Creek Schools Are Back in Session!

Matt Fagioli — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:58:48 +0000

Yesterday was the first day back to school for the Mill Creek Cluster and all of Gwinnett County Schools. Did your kids survive?

Some years seem more significant than others. Of course, the first day of kindergarden or 1st grade are huge. The start of middle school (6th grade here) is also a big milestone. My son, Nick, is in 7th grade at Frank Osborne Middle School. No special turning point for him this year.

It was the first day of high school for my daughter, McKenzie. She’s playing softball at Mill Creek High and we’re so very proud of her. So, now we’re getting up at 530am!! Awesome

We’ve got amazing schools here. Just thought I’d share.

What about you? Any milestones this year for you?

Gwinnett Batting Cages

Matt Fagioli — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:28:09 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of baseball and softball batting for the last month. My son just decided at the ripe old age of 12 that he wants to play Mill Creek baseball this fall, so we’ve been practicing every single day to get ready for the tryout. (btw, the tryout was yesterday and he did really great!).

Jack City is the only batting cage that’s really close to Hamilton Mill, but there are several others within a 10 minute drive.

I’ve made a quick list here:

I also did a search on BattingCageFinder.com and that was pretty accurate (interesting niche business, huh?)

If you’ve found any others, please drop a comment here and let everyone know.

Internet Marketing For Hamilton Mill Businesses

Matt Fagioli — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:15:51 +0000

I did a quick google search for “hamilton mill business” today. I wanted to see which local businesses come up in the search results. Since I spend so much time working on internet marketing, I’d definitely want to support those businesses that are working at it also. At this point, in 2010, everybody knows that having your business show up in search results is an important part of running a local business. But, most people don’t know how to make it happen. By the way, if your local business is in the Hamilton Mill area, then any search phrase that includes those words should be important to you.

Granted, the original phrase I used might not be the best one, but it’s what I started with. If you search for “Hamilton Mill Movie Theater” or “Hamilton Mill Golf Club” or whatever, you’d get totally different results of course.

As a side note, I was very happy to find that HamiltonMillDwellings.com came up second in these search results. I wasn’t even looking for that but it’s a nice bonus

Congratulations to Children’s Dentistry at Hamilton Mill for being the only other local business that came up in the results “above the fold” (where you can still see them without scrolling). It wasn’t there actual website that came up, it was a Yahoo local listing (yes, they come up on google too!).

Interestingly, a german company called Hettich America apparently signed a huge commercial lease in the area recently. Those results came up as #1 and #3 for this search.

Let us know in the comments here about your local business.