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ZoomShift Helps Balance Employee’s Schedules with Ease

ZoomShift is a web-based staff scheduling tool that simplifies the scheduling process for both managers…

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Need More Freelance Leads? Unplugging Can Help

Lately I’ve been doing quite a bit of business development for my freelance services, and…

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Seth Godin, Look What You’ve Done

I picked up Godin’s book because I’ve never read anything about leadership written for the…

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Hackathon This Friday At Norwestern University

Calling all Chicago-based Coders... Over $5,000 in prizes for building cool stuff in 24 hours…

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Chicago’s inerTRAIN Event Thursday, April 7

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Tech Cocktail Stirs Up Big Sponsors for Packed House

As a tech writer in Milwaukee, I sometimes find myself forgetting the gigantic scale of…

Don’t Overlook IT in Social Networking

Someday, there is a good chance that social media marketing will be a major for…

Twitter: 4 Major Weaknesses

I am a huge fan of Twitter, but only until something better comes along. Here…

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Funding Your Idea: From Grandpa To Waiting Tables To Raising $500,000

Desiree Vargas Wrigley is the co-founder of GiveForward, a website that allows people to crowd…

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Breaking News: Chicago’s FeeFighters Expands To Canada

Toronto (3/31/2011) — FeeFighters, the free online comparison shopping engine that offers businesses a head-to-head…

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Chicago’s Startup Community

As I have met and interviewed all kind of people in Chicago’s startup community and…

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On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker’s Manifesto

FG Reader, whoever you are, this is not another sardonic article from Jason Rowley. Consider…

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Chicago Startup Foodie Registry Expands To San Francisco & New York In One Month

Co-founders Jennifer and Ben of Foodie Registry founded their business in 2010 because of a…

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Foursquare’s Chicago Birthday Bash Doesn’t Disappoint

For those unfamiliar, Foursquare is a geo-location application designed for smartphone users designed to let…

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Small Business & Social Marketing: The Who, What, When, Where, and Why

Walking into a small business with little or no social media presence has been a…