Helping New Parents and Gaining Long-Term Savings
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Helping New Parents and Gaining Long-Term Savings
Posted by Melody Barnes on July 21, 2010 at 4:31 PM EDT
New and expecting mothers and fathers across the country will have a helping hand in those first, crucial years of child rearing thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Today, [...]
Twitter Is Still Growing Rapidly
Maybe Twitter doesn’t have a growth problem after all. According to new stats out today from Royal Pingdom, Twitter saw an all-time high of more than 1.2 billion tweets in January. Perhaps this is what CEO Evan Williams meant last month when he said that the site was hitting records “across all [...]
10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now
Seven hundred billion dollars
That’s a ballpark estimate of how much money is wasted in the U.S. medical system every single year, according to a new Thomson Reuters (TRI) report. A sum equal to roughly one-third of the nation’s total health-care spending is flushed away on unnecessary treatments, redundant tests, fraud, errors, and myriad other monetary [...]
How Twitter Conquered the World in 2009
It’s hard to argue that 2009 wasn’t the year of Twitter. Yes, the questions about monetization loomed over the young web company as soon as it started gaining popularity, and they’re still largely unanswered. But people loved this new way of communicating via 140 character messages that go out to everyone who [...]
10 Web Tech Innovations That Have Improved Our Lives
In the 20 or so years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee conceived of and launched the World Wide Web, a lot has changed. The Web itself has certainly had one of the most profound impacts on the world of any new technology in the past hundred years, easily ranking up there with [...]
How To Use Twitter’s New Retweet Feature
by Josh Catone
One of the best things about Twitter is the way that it allows content and information to spread quickly across the network from person-to-person. This happened for two reasons: 1. because Twitter is a one-to-many communications platform and 2. because it allows for content to be easily repeated. In [...]
Twitter Drops “What are You Doing?” Now Asks “What’s Happening?”
November 19th, 2009 | by Barb Dybwad
Until today Twitter officially prompted you to share the answer to the question, “What are you doing?” — which over time has become only one of the many ways users have chosen to create status updates. To address the diversity of use cases Twitter now [...]
Salesforce Announces a “Facebook for the Enterprise”
Christina Warren
In September, Salesforce.com announced Service Cloud 2, the next evolution of its web based CRM product. With Service Cloud 2, Salesforce.com focuses on integrating social media with companies existing customized CRM systems.Today at the Dreamforce Conference, Salesforce.com announced Salesforce Chatter, which the company describes as “enterprise collaborations meets real-time [...]
Social Networking News
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Not long ago I was asked by a young man about what he should be thinking about as he started his career in the business world. We talked about a lot of things, but more than anything I emphasized the need to network with his professional contemporaries. I recommended he join some industry [...]
