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Coming Soon: A New Social Media Recommendation Tool, Solving Your Social Media Conversation Overload

Social media provides a great vehicle for marketers, thought leaders, and individual contributors who share information organically. Despite the myriad of social media applications, many communicators still struggle to communicate accurately and effectively to their target audience. Meanwhile, the intended audience is left to their own devices to sort through mounds of superfluous information on a daily basis. n2, a new social media optimization and recommendation tool, offers a solution to those facing information and conversation overload.

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Drink Deck hits Chicago- App to Follow?

by Benjamin J. Pavlovic Toasts were made, bongos were played and PuPus were consumed as Drink Deck held an exclusive media preview last Thursday at Trader Vic’s in Chicago. Entrepreneur.

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The Printed Blog 2.0

Revamped with a new co-founder and business model, The Printed Blog has come back from a year hiatus. Founder and publisher Joshua Karp has joined forces with celebrity photographer Tyler Shields to produce an edgier magazine that will challenge their audience and even make them mad.

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Facebook Sues Teachbook – Blast from my Past

Today Wired magazine is running the story “Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networking Site for Teachers” (Its also here on Newser: “Facebook Sues Small Teacher Community Site” Here’s.

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Discover the Social Dining Experiment

If you are new to the city, looking to build new friendships, or just plain love food, there’s a new social networking group for you! Grubwith.us takes the social networking concept and turns it inside out. The website, whose tagline reads “the social dining experiment”, seeks to bring your social online network, offline.

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Adventures in Epublishing: Step 1

Adventures in Epublishing: Step 1 is the first in a series of articles on epublishing.  I religiously follow J.A. Konrath’s A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing blog, and I’m applying his.

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Three September Events- FG looking for participants

September is going to be a BIG month in Flyover Country Flyover Geeks is having three separate events and we are hoping to continue having the community’s support. Dates are.

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Chicago is the 21st Century Motown of Startups

January 12, 1959: Berry Gordy founds Motown Records at 2648 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit and arrogantly puts a sign above the window that reads, “Hitsville U.S.A.” He had no customers.

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Why you need to be Really Mad, Right Now, about Net Neutrality (1789 Style)

Being in Flyover Country is interesting. On the one hand there are some amazing people doing some amazing things. This was true of my time in Silicon Valley, of course,.

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Epublishing: Diving in Headfirst

The book is dead. Long live the book! No matter what side of the traditional book vs. epublishing debate you’re on, you cannot ignore the ereaders. They’re everywhere?Kindle, Sony eReader,.

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