Mar 26, 2011

Walking into a small business with little or no social media presence has been a new and frightening experience for me as a new independent contractor. It has also been very exciting because I find that as I start to see the dim bulb of hope and faith a small business owner has in social media grow into a full-fledged ball of sunlight…it’s awesome. One of...

Mar 25, 2011

PostPost is a social content curator that takes the content from your Facebook Newsfeed and transforms it into a beautiful, real-time, digital newspaper. I interviewed PostPost's  Product Manager Bobby Bonaparte a few weeks ago to get the full scoop on the product and how it plans to move forward.

Mar 24, 2011

The struggling artist is commonplace, but have you heard about the struggling curator?  That’s what Alexis Tryon and Scott Carleton, co-founders of Artsicle, discovered when they set out to find their own art. “It was hard to find affordable work without knowing the artists, and galleries never took me seriously as a young professional,” said Tryon. “We...

Mar 21, 2011

For developers still in college, the idea of starting their own software or application business may seem out of reach. They have the drive, the ambition, and the idea, but they aren’t sure how to proceed, and the fear of making the right choices and connections at the right times may be too much for them to take the leap. There is also the issue of who is...

Mar 7, 2011

The last generation concept of coworking spaces is not revolutionary in Milwaukee. But, a cutting edge small business incubator with a coffee/wine bar and cabanas? That IS cause for using the word “revolution”. The Hudson (http://thehudson.org) Business Lounge and espresso bar promises to be the cure for the common collaboration station: The Hudson is the...

Mar 3, 2011

When Andy Nathan started using Twitter, he had no idea he’d soon be one of the top 50 users in Chicago.  Now he lends his expertise in social media & blogging to businesses as the owner of Smart At The Start. Nathan expanded his business by blogging, focusing on blogging consistently- meaning at least five times a week for a year. “I knew if I were to...