Atlanta City Council President Ceasar C. Mitchell Hosts Semi-annual College Prep Series
Atlanta City Council President Ceasar C. Mitchell will host his 10th semi-annual College Prep Series, offering free college prep entrance exams and counseling for students and parents. Read More
Time to Enter the GAMMA Awards - The Top Awards Ceremony for Magazines in the Southeast
If you want to showcase the incredible work your magazine did in 2010 and (fingers crossed!) win a GAMMA Award to prove it! The awards presentation will take place at the MAGS Conference on May 5th. Read More
Expert Explains Why Social Media Works
Acclaimed author and social media/sales expert Barbara Giamanco announces her company's partnership with Inside View, the first University of its kind to focus exclusively on how to increase sales and attract clients through various social media platforms. Read More
TiE Atlanta, along with TiE Carolinas and TiE Florida present VISTA 2011 April 13th & 14th
The conference aims to bring ten high-powered panels with industry expert speakers to provide you with the most powerful entrepreneurial summit experience in Atlanta. Read More
Bank continues fourth anniversary celebration by giving another client $250
William (Bill) Perkins recently won $250 when Private Bank of Buckhead held the second of four monthly drawings in its Fourth Anniversary Promotion. Read More
Green Chamber of the South Winter Mixer 2011
Come socialize, mix and mingle with other businesses in the sustainability arena. Read More
Atlanta Green Communicators Meet March 15
Moving from Awareness to Action. Nadav Malin and Madeline Reamy lead discussion for Atlanta Green Communicators on Tuesday, March 15, at Hudson Grille Midtown. Registration begins at 4:30 pm. RSVP to [email protected]. Read More
Channel 2 Action News February 2011 Sweeps Report
Channel 2 Action News won every newscast by large margins in the February sweeps, which ran from February 3 - March 2, 2011. Read More
Womenetics Recognizes Stacey Abrams and Kim Anderson Among 2011 POW! Award Winners
Join Womenetics and Porsche Cars North America on Tuesday, April 26 as we honor fifteen outstanding women who are changing the landscape of business, including Stacey Abrams and Kim Anderson. Read More
Small Business Financing Conference Set for March 16 in Atlanta
"Bootstrapping to Success - Starting a Business With Little or No Money" is one of eight seminars teaching business financial literacy to business owners during a conference sponsored by the non-profit Small Business Finance Institute, on March 16, 2011. Read More
Join TiE Atlanta in a Members Only Roundtable Discussion Concerning Hot Topics of Today
By joining TiE you will have the chance to become a part of the Annual Members Only Event on March 9th and gain valuable insight from Charter Members concerning vital subjects and concerns pertaining to the business of today. Read More
Raising Investment Capital - Educational Series Shares Secrets to Raising Private Capital
Entrepreneurs spend less time chasing investors ... more time building an investible company. Read More
APC Seeks Nominations for 2010 Awards of Excellence and Journalist of the Year Award
Nominate the local journalists who did the best job covering 2010 for our Awards of Excellence and Journalist of the Year Award. Read More
The New Labor Market
From mid-2009 through the end of 2010, output per hour at U.S. nonfarm businesses rose 5.2% as companies found ways to squeeze more from their existing workers. Hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, rose only 0.3%, according to the Labor Department. In other words, companies shared only 6% of productivity gains with their workers. That compares to 58% since records began in 1947.
(Wall Street Journal)
Mobile Rocks
Driven primarily by Facebook, social networking is the fastest-growing mobile content category in the US: Nearly 58 million mobile subscribers accessed a social networking site at least monthly via mobile device as of December 2010, up 56% from the previous year. The top five fastest growing mobile categories in the US (total audience; Dec 2010 vs Dec 2009):
Social networking, 56%
Classifieds, 55%
Online Retail, 53%
General reference, 47%
Maps, 46%
(comScore MobiLens)
The Influence Index
Social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, can provide some basic information about the breadth of a person's brand. Here are the top five people along with index number, as reported by Time:
Barack Obama - 7,740,557
Lady Gaga - 6,697,752
Ashton Kutcher - 6,390,600
Taylor Swift - 5,608,398
Oprah Winfrey - 2,907,504
(Silver/Time)
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- Harold Wilson
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PODCAST: Using Twitter to fight crime
When law enforcement leaders from around Georgia met with IBM's social media experts in Atlanta last week, they were surprised to learn how easy it is to track drug sales using Twitter. In this podcast recorded after the session ended, What's Up Interactive's CEO, Richard Warner, learned that law enforcement from around the country will be using this as a strategy to catch the bad guys. Read more....
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Optimizing your emails for a mobile screen: what you need to know
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
You get the value of email marketing. You're integrating social, targeting your messages, and providing relevant, compelling content...great! Now, have you optimized it for a mobile screen?
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