April 2012
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LOCAL ART: Join 'The Platters Game'
SUPPORT LOCAL ART! One of our favorite artists, Rodger Schultz aka RAS., is conducting an experiment known as ‘The Platters Game’.
‘The Platters Game’ was started by RAS. in 2010, when he decided to give away a FREE painting on Facebook. The description said ‘FREE’, but NO ONE claimed it. Maybe nobody understood that ‘FREE’ actually meant ‘FREE’.
RAS. tried again a year later with a $1...
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“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb
March 2012
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Watchsalonweekdc:
via TBD on Friday, March 23, 2012 - This Saturday, O’Neill Studios will host its sixth annual “Salon Party” benefiting Research Down Syndrome, a non-profit foundation that supports research in the field. The evening will feature more than 60 pieces of art, by some of the finest artists in our area. Maggie O’Neill, O’Neill studios founder and local pop-artist, Erin Fry, a supporter...
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop...”
– Ayn Rand
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Happy First Day of Spring!
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“When you’re following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for...”
– Kelly Cutrone
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Barclaycard Introduces Crowdsourced Credit Card
Earlier this month, Barclaycard US introduced the Barclaycard Ring MasterCard, billed as “the first social credit card to be designed and built through the power of community crowdsourcing.”
Earlier this month Barclaycard US introduced the Barclaycard Ring MasterCard, billed as “the first social credit card to be designed and built through the power of community crowdsourcing.”
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“Your brand is the summation of conversation about you, without you.”
– Marcel Lebrun
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VIDEO: Targeting the "It Girl" Customer
In this episode of “Smart Entrepreneur,” Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, the co-founders of Rent the Runway, outline five strategies they’ve used to build a high-tech fashion company. They’ve had success targeting a new breed of consumer — a young women with sophisticated fashion sense — while learning technology first-hand and raising venture capital.
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“There’s a way to do it better—find it.”
– Thomas Edison
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Coca-Cola Happiness Machine
A Coca-Cola vending machine is transformed into a happiness machine delivering “doses” of happiness. Where will happiness strike next?
February 2012
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“I think success in life is half your personality and half your talent.”
– Emanuelle Alt (via thezoereport)
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INFOGRAPHIC: Very PINTERESTing
Naturally, we figured it appropriate to start out Monday morning with a @Pinterest infographic that is made to look exactly like Pinterest. Plus, we think it’s much easier to digest information in pictures before our first cup of coffee…
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Startup Spotlight: Remind101
TEACHERS, listen up! Your dreams have come true! Brought to you by remind101.
More than likely, you haven’t heard of remind101 (yet…). remind101 is a very simple tool that allows teachers to send one-way text messages to their students (and parents), reminding them of upcoming quizzes and homework assignments. Before remind101, there wasn’t a full-proof safe way for...
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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Who Will Crack the Code on Mobile Events?
The mobile events startup ecosystem is littered with failures, yet everybody is keenly aware of the problem: it’s still way too challenging to get people together. Why aren’t people flocking to the various solutions that are out there? We ran into a ton of challenges with Holler but we still believe there’s an opportunity to fill the gap. Here’s a breakdown of the greatest challenges...
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Discover Projects on Kickstarter with Kickstumbler
Discover projects on Kickstarter that you wouldn’t see otherwise! Kickstumbler, brought to you by Hype Machine Labs, is a StumbleUpon for Kickstarter. Kickstumbler, an easy way to explore random projects on Kickstarter. You can explore within a category, or across the entire site, for maximum delight. You can even tweet or “like” your favorites on Facebook to spread the ...
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Discover Your Pinterest Clout!
It’s FINALLY here! We knew it would happen, it was just a matter of time and Pin Clout has made our dreams come true! How influential are you on Pinterest?
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The Man Who Prints Houses
THE MAN WHO PRINTS HOUSES A Film by Marc Webb and Jack Wake-Walker - Enrico Dini is on a quest to revolutionize the way we view construction. He is a robotics expert and a self-styled ‘stone alchemist’: able to mimic the process of how rock forms under the seabed. Combining these two skills, he has developed a groundbreaking new construction technique based on the principle of...
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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
– Audrey Hepburn
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
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56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest
In case you’ve been living in a mountain cave in Bhutan for the past couple of months, Pinterest is a relatively new social networking site that allows users to create online image collages, then quickly and easily share those collages — called “pinboards” — with other Pinterest users.
It’s fun, easy, and catching on like wildfire right now.
Part of Pinterest’s appeal is that it’s beautiful....
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DISCOVER: Leap Year
Leap Year on Hulu+ and YouTube - Five friends. Five startups. A contest worth half a million dollars in funding. One will win. A comedy series about the highs and lows of starting a business. All episodes are approximately 10 minutes long. This is a MUST WATCH if you have ever started your own business. VERY entertaining.
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“Never confuse motion with action.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Social Media Jobs Salary Guide - DC Top 20 U.S....
Onward Search Social Media Jobs Salary Guide - a comprehensive look at the best job markets, the most in-demand job titles and salary ranges for social media professionals in the top 20 U.S. cities. This free guide makes it easy to take your social media career to the next level, so download it below, link to it and share it with your fellow social media pros!
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“I am all for conversations. But you need to have a message.”
– Renee Blodgett, President - Blodgett Communications
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Twitter Opens Self-Serve Ad Platform Widely to...
After making the platform available to just a few advertisers in November, Twitter will expand its self-service ad product to all small businesses next month.
Twitter is partnering with American Express for the initiative, which offers preferential treatment for American Express cardmembers. Such cardmembers will be invited first and AmEx will give $100 in free advertising to the first...
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“Your culture IS your brand.”
– Tony Hsieh - CEO, Zappos.com
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Are Twitter Users Sexier than Facebook Users?
INFOGRAPHIC: Does Twitter make you sexier? According to a survey of 1000 Twitter and Facebook using US adults, conducted by Euro RSCG, Twitter makes users dead sexy! OUR CONCLUSION: Tweet up everyone!
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Social Program Development
Framework simplified. That’s what Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group is hoping to make abundantly clear to business owners in the “Process: A Pragmatic Approach to Social Business”, a MUST read for anyone planning to dive head first into social media to market their business.
We are going to outline his proposed process for you, but you can read his full article here.
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VOTE: Modern Definition of Public Relations
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) has announced the final candidates for a modern definition of public relations. The definitions you see below have been developed by PRSA’s Definition of Public Relations Task Force. The candidates reflect nearly 1,000 submissions received last November and the hundreds of comments many provided by readers on the draft definitions we presented...
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