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Twitter’s Claire Diaz Ortiz on small business for good

I connect deeply with the mission of organizations like BALLE that promote the idea of building strong economies through local businesses. That’s because to my mind there is no greater good than contributing to a great neighborhood shopping area or a vibrant, employed local community. To be sure, neighborhood businesses are learning they can easily

News from Twitter on social media for business

Informative and useful social media news for your business. I used Storify to assemble this post. What do you think? I remember a thick TV guide jam packed with info for the Fall TV preview season. Today it’s even better, with CBS TweetWeek. Happy viewing with smart phone in hand! “ .@CBS Gives Fans Exclusive

This week’s social media news

Google adds local, mobile reach with Zagat The big social media news on Thursday this week was that Google is gobbling up Zagat, the successful guidebook publisher, to further reinforce the search engine’s services for local businesses. In Dealbook, The New York Times reports that Google spent between $100 million to $200 million to buy

Storify adds value to events with social media curation

The Weather Channel, which usually posts out-of-context and alarming footage of severe weather events worldwide, is effectively adding value to its coverage by using social media curation tool Storify to show the effects of historic flooding in the Northeastern United States. As Natan Edelsburg reports on Lost Remote, TWC Editorial Meteorologist Tim Ballisty has been

Marketing and social media books piling up

The social media books are piling up on my end table and I am considering buying either a Kindle or an iPad so I can keep up with my reading AND save book shelf space.  One of the great things about the Kindle is that it can hold dozens of a books at a time