From the monthly archives:

March 2010

St. Louis Company Launches Fastest Internet Service in the United States

March 31, 2010 News

Suddenlink, a St. Louis cable broadband provider, also known as Cequel Communications Holdings, also known as one of the largest privately held companies in St. Louis with $1.6 billion in revenue in 2009, said it has started offering the fastest residential Internet service available in the nation. The St. Louis Business Journal reported that the [...]

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St. Louis is one of the cheapest places to do business in the country

March 30, 2010 News

St. Louis is the sixth least expensive city to have a business in, according to a study by KPMG LLP, a tax and advisory firm based in New York.  St. Louis scores well due to very competitive salary and wage costs and very low industry lease costs. In fact, St. Louis tied with Chicago for the lowest industrial-lease cost in [...]

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upprdwnr Launches New Service for Measuring Sentiment on Twitter

March 30, 2010 News

Have you ever wished Twitter had something like the ‘Like’ button that Facebook employs so you can give your quick approval to a link that one of your friends shares? upprdwnr, a Saint Louis based web technology company, today announced the launch of a new service to do just that, in a way. upprdwnr allows [...]

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GIMA 2010 Speaker Series Kicks Off This Week

March 30, 2010 Events

Please join GIMA for their first speaker series of 2010 at Monarch in Maplewood on Wednesday, March 31st. They will be hosting Andy Cotten, Senior Sales Manager for Yahoo! Search Marketing and Display Advertising. At Yahoo!, Andy is responsible for the acquisition of new advertisers, both in paid search and display, with a focus on ensuring [...]

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Yelp CEO Discusses Allegations

March 29, 2010 News

I came across some interesting reading over the weekend, as the New York Times ran an interview with Jeremy Stoppleman, the co-founder and CEO of Yelp, the online review site. The interview dealt with the public scrutiny Yelp has come under recently for allegedly trying to pressure businesses into advertising on their site by offering [...]

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Google Fiber Gets 1100 Applications

March 27, 2010 News

We knew when St. Louis submitted an application to be a test site for Google Fiber, it would have some competition. Yesterday we found out just how much. Shortly after the deadline passed for community governments to nominate themselves to be test sites for Google Fiber, the search giant announced it had received more than [...]

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7 rules of practicing proper Twitter etiquette

March 26, 2010 Events

This is a guest post from Patrick Powers, Interactive Media Manager at Webster University. This post originally appeared on his blog, PatrickPowers.net: There’s an article in this month’s Vanity Fair focusing on “America’s Tweethearts.” The piece highlights a handful of women who have “tweeted” themselves into celebrity. Each boasts between 33,000 and 1.4 million followers [...]

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The St. Louis Social Media Week In Review

March 26, 2010 Events

Each week we take a look back at what us and others around the web had to say about the previous week in social media: – Next week is a BIG week for networking events around St. Louis. Take a look at our calendar, and pick out a couple…unfortunately, you will probably have to pick [...]

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New Software Allows Your Employer To Find and Track Your Social Media Activity

March 24, 2010 News

If you post information on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, an argument could be made that you have given up any expectation of privacy. It’s like talking over a loud speaker everywhere you go – everyone can hear you, and you know that. But even knowing that, this seems a little creepy to [...]

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Random Social Media Usage Statistics

March 24, 2010 News

Last night I found some statistics about social media usage gathered from studies by the Nielson Company, Pew, eMarketer and others. I am not sure what, if anything, they mean, other than Facebook rules the world. (But I already told you that last week.) Anyway, some random social media stats: In the last month of [...]

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Value of Social Media Questioned by Some Entrepreneurs

March 23, 2010 Opinion

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal has some business owners calling into question the effectiveness of using social media to promote their businesses. Conflicting surveys revealed differing conclusions, but the premise of the article was that using social media for business for profit is still more pipe dream than reality. And it may [...]

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You’re Invited to a St. Louis Transit Tweetup

March 22, 2010 Events

You’re invited to a St. Louis Transit Tweetup being held 5:30pm – 8:30pm on Thursday March 25 at the Bridge Tap House and Wine Bar, which is located at 1004 Locust Ave in downtown St. Louis. This is the first-ever St. Louis Transit meet-up/tweet-up for transit advocates, Metro riders, Metro employees and friends to get together and meet [...]

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CMT Adventure Country Coming To St. Louis

March 22, 2010 Events

Friend of The Report Todd Jordan tipped me off to this upcoming event, and it sounds like fun, so I thought I would pass it along. Country Music Television is coming to St. Louis in conjunction with the launch of CMT Adventure Country which launches on March 29th. The St. Louis Galleria will be hosting [...]

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The St. Louis Social Media Week In Review

March 19, 2010 Events

Each week we take a look back at what us and others around the web had to say about the previous week in social media, and take a quick look ahead to items that should be on your radar. – Become a fan of the effort to bring Google Fiber to St. Louis on Facebook [...]

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Would You Respond To a Text During Sex? Take Our Poll

March 18, 2010 Opinion

There was a poll conducted recently by Retrevo Inc., a Sunnyvale company that runs a consumer electronics shopping site, and reported on in the San Francisco Chronicle, about our addiction to social media and by extension, the gadgets we all carry around these days. There were some interesting findings, including that some of the respondents [...]

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