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You know the value is there in social media, but despite your best efforts (or what you think are your best efforts), you’re still struggling to attract anyone. What’s going on and how can you change Read More

Small businesses can learn from Bullock’s heartbreak. The Bullock/James fall-out can teach small businesses a lot about picking marketing/integration partners, selecting vendors or freelancers to su Read More

It is inevitable that today’s consumer is hearing mentions of social media in the traditional media at least a couple of times daily. Some simple steps for small business to start their presence Read More

Recently, the Northern Virginia Tech Council (NVTC) announced their first Social Media Awards Program. This NVTC awards program will honor those organizations who have found innovative ways to use social media. Exciting time, hope you will apply Read More

Twitter is a communications system that functions as a cross between a huge, open IM chat room, and blogging by snippet, or micro-blogging. On it, you can narrow down the flood of information by choosing to participate or monitor conversations through the people whose conversations streams you pay attention to, or follow. You can also choose to follow them by categories, or search.

The specifi Read More

Is Your Ego Too Involved in Your Business?
Entrepreneurs often decide to start their own business to bolster their ego. The ego is part of self-esteem and protects you from getting hurt. But ego shouldn’t be the sole motivator to start your own business. You might think that running your own business gives you control of your destiny. But look closer- the desire to control your destiny might be Read More

ompanies are unable to scale to keep up with the social phenomenon

We know that customers are using these social technologies to share their voices, and companies are having a very difficult time to keep up.

For companies, real time is not fast enough. Companies need to be able to anticipate what customers are going to say and do, in order to keep up. Although Motrin responded to angry mom’ Read More

Social Media & Small Business : Taking your first steps in Social Media View more presentations from Shashi Bellamkonda. Yesterday I was lucky to meet 40 women entrepreneurs in Southern Maryland and they were a great audience and asked very practical and thoughtful questions Read More

This article adresses the concerns of small business bloggers who worry about their small subscriber lists Read More

One of the year’s biggest social media, emerging technology, and networking events, South by Southwest (SXSW) is a little over a week away. It’s also affectionately referred to as Spring Break for Geeks, but the SXSW acronym can also be short for Social by Social Week due to the endless opportunities to meet fun and interesting people across a variety of professional backgrounds.

The official Read More