Fri.Dec 07, 2012

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Twitter Link Roundup #157 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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10 Key Entrepreneur Success Drivers May Surprise You

Startup Professionals Musings

We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted millions from an investor to make billions of his own. I was just perusing an older but still very relevant report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, titled “ Making of a Succes

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Feeling Overwhelmed?

Rembrandt Communications

It’s that time of year when things are crazy. You are probably slammed at work trying to finish year-end projects while preparing for the holidays. But don’t let all of your work get in the way of enjoying this special time of year. To enjoy the holiday season more, here are a few tips… Review [.].

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[Singapore] SIF Young Social Entrepreneurs Program 2013

YoungUpstarts

Singapore International Foundation ‘s Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) program for 2013 – which looks to inspire, equip and enable youths to take up the mantle of social entrepreneurship in Singapore and beyond – is now open for applications. Through this program, successful applicants are able to learn from and interact with leading social entrepreneurs, business professionals and other youths who are keen on social innovation, while expanding their networks for potential coll

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Barefoot running, Achilles tendonitis, and my recovery story

The Equity Kicker

Six months ago my achilles were trashed. The combination of low level pain and fear of making them worse meant that riding my bike or running were both out, and I could only walk at a snail’s pace – maybe 25% of my normal walking speed. I was having to get taxis everywhere (which I hate) and/or leave much longer to get between meetings. Probably worst of all I couldn’t play properly with my kids.

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[Infographic] The Future Of Big Data

YoungUpstarts

The future of big data is, well, big. Big data in information technology is defined as a data sets so large and complex that it requires exceptional technologies to efficiently process such large quantities of data within a certain timeframe. And these days big data is generated everywhere – collected from sensor networks, social networks, social data, and more – so much so it takes an amazing amount of resources just to organize and analyze the data.

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The December cS Award and the November cS Award Winners!

crowdSPRING Blog

Back in 2011, we announced a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. December cS Award. This month we are hosting a project for the Writers in our community! No, you don’t have to be a professional writer to participate – in fact any Creative who has an idea for a great blog post can enter.

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Google Dares Businesses To Switch To Microsoft’s Office 365

ReadWriteStart

Google has pared the free version of Google Apps from its business suite, narrowing the gap between itself and Microsoft’s suite of hosted office productivity software services. But the costs and feature set offered by Google still, on paper, give Google the advantage. In a bid to make things “ very straightforward ,” Google axed the basic Apps plan, which offered free email, calendaring and documents, plus 5GB of generic Google Drive storage, to up to 10 users per month.

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“Never Underestimate What You Can Accomplish…”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur — and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to execute or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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5 Ways to Turn Incredible Customer Support Into a Profit Center

Duct Tape Marketing

This post is one in a series of tips for making your small business run better and is sponsored by UPS. UPS is all about logistics — the logistics that makes your business run better and faster. photo credit: paul bica via photopin cc. Providing customer training and support is costly, but it’s also quite important. Some organizations view it as a necessary evil while other, more innovative thinking companies, view it as a way to differentiate, up sell and create additional profits.

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"As I help the companies I am involved with as well as others that I might just give advice to, I."

Bryce Dot VC

“As I help the companies I am involved with as well as others that I might just give advice to, I also want them to understand what no looks like. When you pitch a VC or person and they spend an hour engaging you about your business that does not mean yes. When they tell you that they are interested in what you are doing and want to keep in touch, that does not mean yes.

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New iOS WordPress and Snapseed apps

Jeff Hilimire

WordPress recently updated their iOS app – which is great because its never been a very good experience – and I wanted to give it a quick test run. Also yesterday Google made the photo editing software they acquired, Snapseed , free on iOS and I wanted to try it as well. I created this photo of my daughter using Snapseed on the iPad and I was pretty impressed.

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"Here is what YES means. You go meet someone and their eyes light up and they ask you back to meet."

Bryce Dot VC

“Here is what YES means. You go meet someone and their eyes light up and they ask you back to meet with his/her partners and schedule a date. When the hour meeting turns into two. When they start talking real numbers, when they say they are interested in doing some diligence. That means you have a really great shot of having that person/company invest in you.” - Gotham Gal.

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6 Ways To Get Promoted You May Not Have Considered

YoungUpstarts

by Jennifer Carter, Outbounding.com. There comes a time during your professional career that you feel you are deserving of a promotion. However, your boss might not always recognize this moment at the same time you do, and may need a little nudge. If you want to propel your career forward, you might consider trying some creative methods for getting yourself promoted outside of working diligently.

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