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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 it a mini manifesto. I want you to reclaim yourself.

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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 people “check in” to locations they are visiting. The social aspect of the application comes.

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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 new and frightening experience for me as a new independent contractor. It has also been.

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PostPost: Turn your Facebook Newsfeed into a Newspaper

PostPost is a social content curator that takes the content from your Facebook Newsfeed and transforms it into a beautiful, real-time, digital newspaper. I interviewed PostPost’s  Product Manager Bobby Bonaparte a few weeks ago to get the full scoop on the product and how it plans to move forward.

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Charlie Sheen’s Intern raising money for Tsunami Relief

A few weeks ago, I applied to be Charlie Sheen’s Social Media Intern off the cuff. Now, I’m in the third round and doing all I can to be a part of his Guinness World Record-breaking team – which includes raising money for Tsunami Relief in Japan.

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Tyler New Media introduces MyCulture.tv

ABlackWebDesign, a Chicago based web development company specializing in web customizations, recently had the pleasure of working with the up and coming social media mogul, Tyler New Media . On.

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Spam Double Standard: Social Media is the Real Culprit

Google has been taking a beating in the news for its “Spam Problem”, which has led to the rise of Blekko and other search startups. Although the problem is real, its prevalence is nothing compared to the Social Media Spam that plagues Twitter and Facebook – and I am not talking about malware.

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Editorial: CHEEKYChicago, A New Media Empire in the Making

Jessica Zweig & Erica Beth Levin Written by Marian Mangoubi of Sassy CEO I recently met with Erica Bethe Levin and Jessica Zweig, co-Founders of an amazing online magazine called.

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CEO Sundays: “Frank” Talk About Cloud Architecture

Written by Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL Consulting The great contemporary architect Frank Gehry has built a reputation by challenging our core beliefs around what buildings should look like as.

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Be ‘Smart At The Start’ With Social Media

When Andy Nathan started using Twitter, he had no idea he’d soon be one of the top 50 users in Chicago.  Now he lends his expertise in social media &.

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