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Great Events This Week

Paul Gillin

New England’s high-tech community is a perpetual also-ran to Silicon Valley despite our concentration of great educational institutions and a record of IT innovation that stretches back to Jay Forrester. Sign up here. The evening before MassTLC is the 7 th Annual MITX Technology Awards.

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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

I recently spoke to Mark Schmulen, general manager of social media at the small-business-focused e-mail service provider Constant Contact about how to go beyond the Facebook wall and make the social network a practical and measurable small business marketing platform. Getting that repeat traffic is the special sauce of Facebook success.

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Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin

Make Marketing a Service to Customers - I didn’t write down who said this, but the comment stuck with me long after the conference was over. Service had little to do with it. Forrester Research now predicts that smart phones will be the dominant Internet access device in the US within three years. and Twitter.

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