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This Week In Twitter

September 7, 2010 News
This week in Twitter news

This is a weekly list of interesting items making news in the world of Twitter.

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This Week In Facebook News

September 2, 2010 News
This week in Facebook news

This is a weekly list of interesting items making news in the world of Facebook. Facebook’s Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s List of Influential Leaders – The 26-year-old wunderkind tops Vanity Fair’s 16th annual ranking of the world’s movers and shakers, which will run in the magazine’s October issue. Local merchants use Facebook, Twitter to attract and keep [...]

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Quick Survey: What’s your preferred social media platform?

September 1, 2010 News

IBM recencently conducted a survey of 1000 of it’s channel partners about social media use and found that 45 percent of their partners are experimenting with a social media strategy to grow their business, but 75 percent are unsure of how to go about it. And of those partners surveyed LinkedIn was the clear favourite [...]

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What is the average length of a St. Louis Tweet?

September 1, 2010 News

Have you ever wondered how many people in St. Louis use Twitter? Or how many tweets originate from the STL every day? Then today is your lucky day. Infuz and STLTweets have just put out their report on Twitter usage in St. Louis for the first six months of 2010. You can download your own [...]

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Globe-Democrat.com Sports Department Is No More

July 21, 2010 News

GLOBE-DEMOCRAT.COM SPORTS STAFF RESIGNS – The Associated Press has picked up on a tweet, apparently, sent by Rob Rains, now former sports writer at the new Globe Democrat online newspaper, that reported the entire sports staff had walked out. “The sports staff at Globe-Democrat.com has resigned, effective July 21, to pursue other opportunities“ The Boston [...]

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Help a Local Teacher Win $1000

July 21, 2010 News

We don’t do this very often, but this felt like a pretty good cause. Our biggest sponsor, local office/printer supplies company Exec Business Products, put up a post today about a contest Avery Dennison is having where they are going to award a lucky teacher $1000 to put towards buying school supplies and enjoying whatever is [...]

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Charter Business Launches Faster Internet Services

July 21, 2010 News

Fastest. Internet. Ever. At least for Charter Business and their customers it is. Charter Business is introducing new internet service levels called Extreme Power, with speeds up to 75 Mbps, and Mega Power, with up to 40 Mbps speeds, that the company says are the fastest internet connections it has ever offered. The Extreme Power and [...]

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Saint Louis Coworking at The Shell Building

July 19, 2010 News

We hinted at it a couple weeks ago, but now we can tell you definitively that co-working is coming to downtown. The following information is straight from the St. Louis Coworking site (link above). I would encourage you to please check out their site and get some information from them if you are at all interested in [...]

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Integrated Marketing Summit Returning To St. Louis in October

July 19, 2010 News

The Integrated Marketing Summit is coming back to St Louis October 19th at the Hyatt Regency St Louis Arch with over 25 speakers covering 17 topics and a networking event. If you went in the past it will be similar to last year’s event with one exception, on October 20th, there will be four hands-on workshops for [...]

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And St. Louis Most Influential Tweeter Is…

July 15, 2010 News

The Social Media Club of St. Louis‘ July event was held tonight at Hatch Research in Maplewood. The topic was the state of Twitter usage in St. Louis and all kinds of interesting statistics were presented about how we all use Twitter. The presentation will be made public shortly, and rather than share all of [...]

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MTV TJ Competition About to Heat Up

July 6, 2010 News

Tomorrow the search for the first MTV Twitter Jockey, or TJ for short, begins to get under way in earnest, as MTV will announce the winners of the final 2 spots in the competition. That will set the field of TJ hopefuls at twenty. The contest will then immediately move to the ‘challenge phase’ which [...]

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Other St. Louis Bloggers Now Featured On Their Own Page (Site Update)

July 3, 2010 News

For a while now, we have had the sidebar item (to the right and down a little) showing the latest posts from other St. Louis blogs. Now we have a new page listing all of the actual blogs that are producing those posts so you can go check them out and support some other local [...]

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Spoke Marketing Sprockets Contest Winners Announced

July 2, 2010 News

A few weeks ago we told you about Spoke Marketing‘s contest to offer free marketing services to select non-profits and start-ups. They have announced the winners of those services, so I thought I take a minute and congratulate the winners, and also Spoke, for coming up with an innovative way to give something back to [...]

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PCWorld Would Choose St. Louis For Google’s Fiber Project

June 18, 2010 News
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Remember a few months back when Google announced it was searching for test cities for it’s planned internet service called Google Fiber? (If not, we talked about it here, here and here.) Google Fiber would deliver internet speeds up to 100 times faster than what most Americans are used to, and Google needs a market [...]

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Big MTV Opportunity For One of ‘The Girls’

June 17, 2010 News
One of Girls Guide to the Galaxy’s very own, Danielle Hohmeier, is one of twenty people across the country in the running to be the new MTVTJ!

Is one of ‘the Girls’ from St. Louis’ own The Girls Guide To The Galaxy about to become MTV’s Twitter Jockey? Maybe, but not without our help. Wait, what? Let me back up. Danielle Hohmeier, one of the Girls from the previously mentioned Girls Guide, is one of only twenty people across the country in the [...]

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