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At SXSW, Small Business Web Applications Work Together, Party Together

March 16, 2010
By Rex Hammock
At SXSW, Small Business Web Applications Work Together, Party Together

Over the past few years, the interactive part of South by Southwest, the giant music, film and technology festival held each spring in Austin, Texas, has grown into a 15,000+ attendee “spring break for geeks,” as some wags have started calling it. As I’ve been one of those “geeks” who just wrapped up my sixth...
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If you are attending SXSWi, look for me

February 26, 2010
By Rex Hammock
If you are attending SXSWi, look for me

Each March, I* go to the gigantic gathering in Austin, Texas called South by Southwest Interactive. In the years I’ve attended, it has grown from a small conference that was held in a small corner of that city’s convention center to a sprawling mega-convention that spreads out over the entire convention center and hotels...
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4 reasons to create a SmallBusiness.com user profile

February 17, 2010
By Rex Hammock
4 reasons to create a SmallBusiness.com user profile

First the best news: We’ve made it much, much easier to create a User profile on SmallBusiness.com. We’ve installed a wiki “extension” that makes creating a user profile as easy as filling in the blanks and uploading your photo or logo (or, avatar, as it’s officially called). To create a User profile, simply log...
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A helpful tutorial from the Helpers

February 13, 2010
By Rex Hammock
A helpful tutorial from the Helpers

At SmallBusiness.com, there’s a group of folks we call helpers. They are like elves. You never know where you’ll find them. Recently some helpers put together a new Editing Tutorial on SmallBusiness.com. It’s a great way to get familiar with the wikitext method of formatting an entry on SmallBusiness.com or any wiki running on...
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Calling all guest bloggers

February 12, 2010
By Rex Hammock
Calling all guest bloggers

On the new SmallBusiness.com blog, we want to feature lots of voices from the world of small business. We’ll be calling on our friends — bloggers and others who have great insight, points of view and information about specific products, trends or issues that are important to small businesses. But we want to hear from...
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Another take-off for this blog

February 12, 2010
By Rex Hammock
Another take-off for this blog

Back in the late summer of 2009, I decided to pull the plug on the SmallBusiness.com Blog -- or, at least, on what had become of it. We had started out with great intensions, but it headed a little sideways. And by "we," I mean "I." I had intended to use this blog as...
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