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The alert came through my emails yesterday but I was too busy to pay attention to it.  However, when Robert J. (thank you Robert!) emailed me this morning about it, I thought I better take a look.  This one slipped by me as well, even though I had previously seen this section on LinkedIn.  Like [...]

The Buffalo Grove Patch, a Web based ‘community-specific news and information platform’, ran a school event entitled: Stevenson Patriot Savings Cards On Sale. It caught my eye since my wife and I use the card at various participants and have done so regularly for years. It more than pays for itself in savings. Yet, each [...]

The latest LinkedIn Blog post arrived in my email early this morning. Aaron Bronzan officially announced the “Improve Your Profile” button (highlighted in yellow below). When clicked, it opens a suggestion tool. This tool has been available in Beta for a while if you have not noticed. The blue box (shown below in the second [...]

I came across this discussion in a LinkedIn group I belong to which was started by Dr. Joy Poskozim, a Chicago dentist. I was impressed since I have been on LinkedIn for a few years and think this is the first discussion I saw started by a dentist. I even congratulated her on her work, [...]

Yes, we see all the bad news as the US market went down, way down yesterday. And as of this writing there is a slight gain on Friday. Hey, U.S. payroll rose in July. A bank may be charging companies to keep money in the bank because there is so much of it (money)? Seems [...]

I saw this discussion in the Chicago Business Owners LiNC group, a  small sub group of Linked N Chicago (LiNC)  I belong to.  I stumbled upon it on LinkedIn earlier today and it aroused my curiosity.  The title was:  “How do you maintain confidence through the “dips” as an entrepreneur?”  followed by “All entrepreneurs ride [...]

Larry Kim of WordStream published an article last week which talked about the sources of Google’s revenue stream last year. It kind of blew my mind! Did you know that 97% of Google’s $33.3 billion in revenue, or just a mere $32.2 billion, comes from selling ads? Is that mind boggling? Well no, look at [...]

ComScore released the June, 2011 results for search engine rankings in the United States yesterday.  Google still maintains its lead on almost two to one against all others combined.  Almost 66 per cent of all explicit core results started at Google once again, unchanged from May. Out of 16.7 billion searches, 10.9 billion searches were [...]

The LinkedIn Blog is an excellent way to keep abreast of new trends and has an archive of previous posts that can come in handy for newbies.  I visited this post called “5 Ways to Make the Most of LinkedIn” written by  Lindsey Pollak, on October 18th, 2010. Lindsey’s talks about the following five ways to jump [...]

Jeanette Mulvey, BusinessNewsDaily Managing Editor wrote an article on June 27, 2011 entitled: “Mind Your Business: What Your Boss Doesn’t Know (Yet)” slanted toward baby boomer bosses. To those of us who called the Yellow Pages social media when we first started in management, she calls out. And here is her plea: “Social media and [...]