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Smart Working Tool Review – TimeBridge

Last year I came across the product, TimeBridge from the company of the same name in a review by Web Worker Daily. I didn’t really think much about using the product. Then about six months ago TimeBridge integrated phone conferencing and then last month they added a business paid package withFreeConference.com and desktop sharing as well [...]

Smart Working: Slideshare Launches AdShare and LeadShare

Have you ever had the opportunity to use Slideshare? It is a really great tool to put your presentations online. Many use the tool to promote their work but it is a great way to make this kind of content embeddable for readers. You can set your creative common rights and make it downloadable. Previously, [...]

Smart Working: Avoid Burnout and Get Your Work-Life Balance Back

I will take a guess that if you are reader of this blog you probably have your own business full time or a side business that is growing to be full time. Taking the leap and being a full time entrepreneur is a bit jarring on the somewhat normal schedule you might have or have [...]

#GrowSmartBiz : Watch the LiveStream of the Small Business Summit Sept 29th

The GrowSmartBiz conference is taking place on Tuesday 29th September at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC and the tickets are selling fast.
The GrowSmartBiz conference s a premier one-day event featuring renowned small business leaders and well-known industry experts, including keynote speaker Chris Anderson and Sen. Mark Warner.

We also have some great news for folks who are [...]

REMINDER: Grow Smart Biz Conference on September 29 with Senator Mark Warner and author of “Free”, Chris Anderson

If you are a casual reader to this blog you have probably heard that on September 29, in Washington, DC, Network Solutions is hosting the Grow Smart Biz Conference.
We have some great speakers with Keynotes by Chris Anderson and Virginia Senator Mark R. Warner for the GrowSmartBiz Conference.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia

Senator Warner was elected [...]

All I Need to Know About Social Media I Learned from Jason Alba

Robin Ferrier is the Communications Manager for Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County. As the Communications Manager, she oversees media relations, community outreach, marketing, publications, and special events, and manages the Campus’ web presence, including the web site and its presence in the social media realm. Robin also engages in limited legislative affairs activities and works [...]

GrowSmartBiz: Catherine Read on Success Stories of Small Business

Its a great feeling when one of your customers invites you to their office and that is how I landed up at http://www.townandcountrymovers.com/ for a open house that they held at their offices in Gaithersburg a few days ago. It was a networking event and among the people I met was Catherine Read who helps [...]

Book Shame, Information Hoarding, and Aspirational PDFs

Way back in January, I wrote about how small businesses (and people, too, of course), can share their expertise through social linksharing — that is, instead of bookmarking things in your browser where only you can get to them, publishing them to social linksharing / social bookmarking sites (or any other sites that can be [...]

#GrowSmartBiz : Pat Troy Using Technology to work smartly

Small Business Conferences are about getting actionable ideas and implementing them in your business and Pat Troy signed up for this very reason to the GrowSmartBiz conference on Sept 29th.  Pat Troy , CAE and MCA is the Executive Director of nextwavegroup.com and very busy person. NextWave Group among other things is a Association Management company. [...]

Smart Working – Building a Stellar Online Community

Building the Small Business community here at Network Solutions is something we work hard on every day. We use tools like this blog and our other blogs (Grow Smart Business, Women Grow Business) to connect with various parts of our community. We also use tools like Twitter and good old fashioned email to reach out [...]