Author Archive
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The Role of Digital Technology in Economic Development
0Presentation to the Economic Development Committee of the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce. Listen to the audio version here. What
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Three Years Later
Three years ago this week, I walked into City Hall and bought myself a business license. It was a move
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Meet Our New Web Designer!
We are pleased as punch to be able to introduce you to our newest team member: Sarah Tebo.
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The Biggest QR Marketing Mistake You Can Make
QR code marketing gives the opportunity for a potential customer to be a part of decoding a message. Don’t let them wind up like Ralphie. Don’t make the biggest QR marketing mistake.
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Top Ten Things You Should Know About Twitter Right Now
Today the Founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, counted down ten facts about Twitter before unveiling the newest version of the company that gave us tweets, fail whales, blue birds, and followers. Read more to learn about new features, structure, and uses.
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2010 Small Business Marketing Forecast
A review of the just released Ad-ology report: 2010 Small Business Marketing Forecast including perspectives on social media. We’ve broken it down, highlighted the data you need to know and are interested in your thoughts.
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Tools to Keep Track of Your Social Media Life
For a small business owner, the idea of keeping up with yet another “inbox” is daunting, much less a twitter feed, facebook profile and page, linkedin account, youtube channel or delicious account. Now, of course, my first disclaimer is always that you don’t have to be everywhere to be effective (and often must not be everywhere to be effective) but all this aside, it is still exhasting to think about. So, I’m putting together a list of programs that can make some of it a bit easier (and for free).
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Controlling Your Facebook Feed
There’s a way to control what you see when you log in to Facebook. It’s just a little hidden, but here’s a quick how-to to getting the information you want in your Facebook news feed.
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Constant Contact Unveils New Import Tools
Constant Contact has been busy, and we couldn’t be happier as a Business Partner to announce several new import features!
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‘Angels’ among us: Local leaders till an ‘entrepreneurial garden’
Market potential. High scalability. Deal flow. Due diligence. Committed funds. Co-investments. When representatives from the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce escort
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Entrepreneurship Is Hope of American Economy Says PayPal Founder
Nov. 10, 2008| CHARLOTTE, NC. PayPal founder, Peter Thiel, said American entrepreneurship is the way out of the current economic crisis. His talk, “The Business Model of the United States” was given at the opening reception of the Collegiate Network’s East Coast Editor’s Conference held in Charlotte, NC on Nov. 7. He crafted a view of American business for the seventy undergraduate editors of independent newspapers and magazines gathered for the weekend conference. Premised on the idea that the most fundamental business principle is “not to compete,” he described the type of business which defines America on the world stage given the current political, international, and economic climate.
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Towards a “Googlier” World: Google’s Maureen Schumacher Shares at Berry’s Executive Round Table
ROME, GA. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page began work on their Stanford doctoral project to create a search engine that would better connect users to relevant information, it’s possible they envisioned the kind of global success their brand would have just ten years following their first $100,000 investment from Sun Microsystems even from their home garage office. As Maureen Schumacher clearly articulated at Berry College’s Executive Round Table Dinner, the company is founded not just on the concept of connection to information, but on the notions of innovation – nine of them to be exact.
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Calling All Would-Be Pilots: Freedom Flight Center Getting Off Ground
Freedom Flight Center wants you. Executives announced plans to begin accepting flight students in two to three weeks at this week’s Rome Kiwanis Club meeting. CFO, David Wright presented an entertaining history of aviation, including the real story of Orville and Wilbur Wright – after a coin flip put Wilbur in the driver’s seat first that fateful morning, he wrecked and left Orville with the history making flight. As he continued with tales of the aerial feats, it was easy to see just how much this man loves flying.
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From Paper Towel Sketch to Steel and Stone
When Wright Ledbetter and Derek Bell submitted their “Porto Futurus” design to the citywide competition to bring large-scale art to the city, it had already come a long way from the paper towel drawings they had sketched over beer while hanging out one summer night in 2007. And now, after ten years of friendship and nearly a year since that fateful night, the concept is fast becoming reality with the second of three concrete segments poured last week and stonework underway.
