Listen To Your Customers
One of the most exciting aspects to me of social media is how businesses can use them to connect directly to their customer base. I recently posted a video of small business owners discussing how they use twitter for this very purpose. Traditional means of advertising have always been very one-directional: companies sent out the [...]
Rent Textbooks, Save Money
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Ask any college student, and they will likely agree that one of their biggest expenses each semester is the cost of buying textbooks. Professors notoriously like to teach the most cutting-edge theories, and publishers are more than happy to produce new editions of the same books almost annually. The result? Rising textbook costs, [...]
Use Twitter For Business
Great panel at TweetCamp San Antonio on July 18, 2009, discussing ways to use twitter from a small business perspective.
Help Southern Sudan
The Second Sudanese Civil War, lasting more than twenty years and killing an estimated two million people in Sudan before a peace accord was reached in 2005, is not as well-known as the more recent conflict in Darfur, Sudan. But the effects of the war are still being felt throughout southern Sudan. One of the [...]
Employed, And Looking For Work
Today’s job report showed that the unemployment rate continued to climb in June, reaching a 26-year high. Making things worse for those looking for work is the fact the some employers are choosing to ignore unemployed applicants and recruiting workers that are already employed elsewhere, as Dana Mattioli discovered for an article in The Wall [...]
