Want to be on the cover of Website Magazine? All you need to do is upload a photo of yourself to the Website Magazine Flickr group holding a past issue. If your photo is selected (attractiveness not a qualifier) you will be seen by over 100,000 readers and appear on Newsstands across the globe. How's that for exposure? Upload your photo today because there is only a short time until the deadline - January 7th, 2010.
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Added by Todor Krecu on December 27, 2009 at 6:30am —
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The Holiday Mixer 2009 at Holiday Club in Chicago was a joint event, sponsored by the organizers of several Meetup groups.
Linda Ryder of Ryder Web Design (
http://www.ryderwebdesign.com/) was the grand prize winner of a signed copy of "Crush It!" by Gary Vaynerchuk (
http://www.chicago-social-marketing.com/gary-vaynerchuk-booksmith.shtml…
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Website Magazine Social on Thursday, October 29
An exclusive event for Internet and Technology professionals.
Website Magazine is hosting an exclusive social networking event for technology and Internet professionals at their offices in Des Plaines, Illinois - right next to O'Hare airport. This is a catered event (beer/wine and hor's d'ouvres) held on Thursday, October 29 from 6pm to 8:30 pm.
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Added by Todor Krecu on October 21, 2009 at 9:59pm —
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FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials. Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm Continue
Added by Todor Krecu on October 11, 2009 at 10:49am —
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Conversations about You, Your Company and Your Products are taking place on the Web and social networking sites every day. Learn the right tools to use to monitor the discussions, engage your audience, protect your assets online and grow the business. Attached is Kristin Keith's presentation about "Reputation Management: Protecting Yourself and Your Brand Online"…
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Added by Todor Krecu on October 5, 2009 at 7:32am —
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Join Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing at the The 13th annual Eli's Cheesecake Festival to benefit the New Horizon Center for Developmentally Disabled and the Greater Chicago Food Depository will be held on October 3 and 4, 2009 from 9am-5pm Saturday and 11am-5pm Sunday.
Free 5" Eli's Cheesecake Dessert!
How to qualify:
1.Join the Eli's Cheesecake Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/elischeesecake or on Twitter a…
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Added by Todor Krecu on October 1, 2009 at 9:45pm —
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Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing Meeting
Reputation Management: Protecting Yourself and Your Brand Online
http://www.chicago-social-marketing.com/events090930.shtml
Conversations about You, Your Company and Your Products are taking place on the Web and social networking sites every day. Learn the right tools to use to monitor the discussions, engage your audience, protect your assets online…
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Added by Todor Krecu on September 5, 2009 at 2:04am —
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Topic: Facebook - A presentation by Brad Keown, Midwest Director of Sales at Facebook
http://chicago-social-marketing.com/events090901.shtml
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Eli's Cheesecake Cafe
Street: 6701 W Forest Preserve Ave
City: Chicago, IL
Agenda:
6pm-7pm - registration and networking
7pm-7:05pm - Introduction by Todor Krecu
7:05pm-7:10pm - Introduction by Marc Schulman, President at Eli's Cheesecake Company
7:10pm-7:45pm - presentation by Brad Keown, M…
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Added by Todor Krecu on August 13, 2009 at 1:40am —
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Marc S. Schulman, President, The Eli's Cheesecake Company, presents at the June Meeting of the Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing Group. In this video Mark discusses one to one marketing and the history of The Eli's Cheesecake Company:
http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/video/chicago-web-20-and-social-1
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Added by Todor Krecu on July 12, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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Joe Orlandino, Sales Manager at Be Found Online, presents at the June Meeting of the Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing Group:
http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/video/chicago-web-20-and-social-2
Be Found Online is offering all group members a Complimentary 30 Minute Online Visibility & Site Consultation. More information is at:…
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Added by Todor Krecu on July 7, 2009 at 5:56am —
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Sima Dahl did a great job with her presentation "Sway Factor: Building a Network in a Digital Age" at our meeting on June 20, 2009 at
Eli’s Cheesecake Café.
Photos of the event are at:
http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/photo/albums/chicago-web-20-and-social-5
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Sima Dahl, president of Parlay Communications, Ltd., will present "Sway Factor: Building a Network in a Digital Age" on Saturday June 20, from 11am to 12pm
Sima Dahl will discuss how you can use what she calls the holy triumvirate of social media (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) to develop a personal brand and strong, supportive network. More than just Social Media 101, you'll learn how to make a name for yourself and build a lasting network in just minutes a day.
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Digital Sky, a Russian investment group, gets a 2% stake in Facebook. This new investment values Facebook at $10 billion. DST may also buy at least $100 million of Facebook's common stock at a later date. Is this good for Facebook?
The full press release is at:
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Added by Todor Krecu on May 26, 2009 at 5:18pm —
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Photos from the two meetings have been added at:
http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/photo
On Saturday May 16, Heidi Miller, a social media consultant who helps companies and non-profits build passionate communities online, presented on social media at the Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing Meetup.
On Monday May 18, Teresa Britton, The Marketing Therapist, presented on social media at the Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media…
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Added by Todor Krecu on May 23, 2009 at 8:20am —
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This month we will have two meetings. One will be downtown
Chicago on May 16 and the other will be on
May 18 in Algonquin, IL
Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing Meeting
Time: May 16, 2009 from 10:30am to 12pm
Location: ING Direct Cafe
Street: 21 E Chestnut St
City/Town: Chicago, IL, 60610
RSVP at
http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/events
Northwest Suburbs Meeting - Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Me…
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Added by Todor Krecu on May 8, 2009 at 9:26pm —
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Photos of the Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing meeting on April 20 at Julius Meinl are now live at:
http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/photo/albums/april-2009-meeting
We discussed Twitter and Facebook. Also, Marcia Hansen from Allstate gave a presentation on
http://www.frienderbenders.com/home.php
See everyone at the May meeting.
Todor
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Added by Todor Krecu on April 22, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Join social media and business mavens, pr and interactive agencies, big brands and ecommerce specialists working together on building the business of the Interwebs. Speakers speak for 40 minutes. Then you work with your team applying what they said to your business.
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/213199686/SOBCon09affiliate/1049629331
May 1-3, 2009, 150 of the most deeply networked, conversational business bl…
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Added by Todor Krecu on April 8, 2009 at 12:47am —
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Threadless was started in 2000 by Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart with $1000 earned from an Internet t-shirt design contest. The company has grown without any formal advertising, sales force or national retail distribution channels. T-shirt designs are submitted online by members of the Threadless community. The public votes on the designs and a few of them are selected for printing with the creators of the winning designs getting paid cash and store credit. The t-shirts are only sold onlin…
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Added by Todor Krecu on March 19, 2009 at 3:30am —
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Social networks like Facebook (150 million users), Twitter (4.4 million users) and LinkedIn (34 million users) are some of the fastest growing sites on the Internet and they're not being used for aimless chitchat or sharing the latest gossip.
We're talking busy IT professionals using social networks for serious IT business – everything from customer service to marketing a product to marketing themselves to keeping up with industry news to getting fast answers to a technical question.
Full stor…
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Added by Todor Krecu on March 11, 2009 at 7:24am —
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Barack Obama used social media to transform the way presidential campaigning is done. His Twitter site at
http://twitter.com/barackobama still has over 140,000 followers making it one of the most popular networks on the site. The last post to Twitter was on November 5, however there are two new posts in January 2009 and hopefully he will continue. The My.BarackObama.com social network had a feature where subscribers could use the Neighbor to Neighbor…
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Added by Todor Krecu on January 25, 2009 at 1:05pm —
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