article thumbnail

Thinking About the Next Chief Digital Officer of New York City

This is going to be BIG.

Sterne is tasked with helping to make NYC.gov more user-friendly, ensuring that agencies integrate social media opportunities and serving as an advocate for the digital media industry in New York City.". On one hand, it sounds a bit like PR. Who should be the next Chief Digital Officer of New York City?

article thumbnail

Girlfluence To Harness Women Power Online Using Video

YoungUpstarts

Founded within Manhattan’s Silicon Alley – which is seeing an explosion of entrepreneurship in the digital space - New York City-based Girlfluence aims to gather the support of and speak to the new generation of female entrepreneurs, influencers and consumers and thereby harnessing and nurturing female empowerment.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

You Sell You: How To DIY Your Early PR Presence

YoungUpstarts

It is possible to do PR on your own — and it’s much cheaper and easier than you’d ever imagine it to be. Here are four ways to take a DIY approach to PR: 1. These early efforts will set your PR wheels in motion — and once you’re ready to work with the true PR pros, all they’ll have to do is hit the gas and steer.

PR 100
article thumbnail

Public Relations Tips for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” The first one is define.

article thumbnail

The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

Designed as a work space for writers, Paragraph takes up a 2,500-square-foot loft space in New York City. startups, social media firms, advertising and PR companies, and more. Notable investors in this coworking space include Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman.

article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #92 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Fascinating visual look at the population of Asians in New York City – [link]. Set top TV boxes waste a lot of energy – they are the biggest source of energy use in many homes – [link]. Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion – [link]. US needs to spend $1.6T

article thumbnail

Lessons for Brooklyn: Information Spillover at the Roots of NYC Tech

This is going to be BIG.

The entrepreneurs in New York City didn't learn how to run companies from their long histories at Amazon or Google--they learned from each other. For years and years, there was plenty of non-VC money in New York City--I mean, this is New York, right--but that money wasn't building the ecosystem.