ZoomShift Helps Balance Employee’s Schedules with Ease

ZoomShift is a web-based staff scheduling tool that simplifies the scheduling process for both managers and staff members in a restaurant or business environment.

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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 its forced me even further out of my box than ever. I’m not speaking of.

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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 express purpose of inspiring or instructing or empowering would-be leaders. And I realized, after about forty pages, that all of my criticism of inspirational flimflam such as this, yeah, it wasn’t baseless. Sorry, Seth.

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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 during the Hackathon at Northwestern. Best Overall Project: $1,500 Best Use of Hunch API: $1,000.

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Chicago’s inerTRAIN Event Thursday, April 7

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Tech Cocktail Stirs Up Big Sponsors for a Packed House

As a tech writer in Milwaukee, I sometimes find myself forgetting the gigantic scale of the tech world in Chicago, and I long to be reminded. Chicago has always been.

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Don’t Overlook IT in Social Networking

Someday, there is a good chance that social media marketing will be a major for college kids. Until then, we all get to this niche of the marketing world from.

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Twitter: 4 Major Weaknesses

I am a huge fan of Twitter, but only until something better comes along. Here are four things that they need to improve upon: Conversation, Discovery, Content Lifespan, and Dumb People.

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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 fund money for medical expenses.  GiveForward recently raised $500,000 in funding.

But that funding came after a lot of bootstrapping and alternative funding sources (like Desiree’s grandpa). In this interview, Desiree shares the unique ways she bootstrapped GiveForward in the beginning, where the idea came from, and how she pushed forward no matter what.

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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 comparison of credit card processors and their fees, announced today it has expanded its money-saving.

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