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Outsourcing social media: Not awesome

Written by Anthonys pipe on June 29, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Your own Business

An article by Kermit Pattison in the Small Business section of New York Times last week got us thinking. It’s about the trend in small businesses toward outsourcing data entry, writing, Web design, accounting, HR and payroll to remote, “virtual teams”. That all seems moderately reasonable. This sentence, though, stopped us in our tracks: “Some businesses even are hiring freelancers to set up and manage their corporate profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter.” Hold it r

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Aardvark Burrows Out Of Beta

Written by Anthonys pipe on June 27, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Your own Business

I just received an email from Max Ventilla, CEO of social search startup Aardvark , to let me know that Aardvark is now open to anyone who wants to sign up. Well, anyone with a Facebook account–but I can’t imagine that there are many people who are curious to sign up for a service like Aardvark but don’t already have Facebook accounts! Apparently Michael Arrington got the email too. But Aardvark’s larger PR coup is a feature in the Business section of the Sunday New York Times, entitled “ N

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Business calendar (The Buffalo News)

Written by Anthonys pipe on March 8, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Your own Business

The Business Calendar runs each Sunday in the Business section. Notices of meetings, seminars and workshops of interest to the area business community should be sent to the Business News Desk of The Buffalo News, P. O. Box 100, Buffalo, N. Y. 14240, by the preceding Thursday, faxed to 849-4587, or e-mailed to fin@buffnews.com . Monday

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