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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Today, members of Congress are attending a health-care summit hosted by President Obama in order to see if a healthcare reform legislative package can be negotiated and passed this year. Most of the coverage leading up to the gathering has been focused on the political intrigue of the summit: “High stakes gambit” is how...
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I’ll be the first to admit, I get a little confused because there seems to be several weeks and months throughout the year that we are supposed to celebrate some official small business or entrepreneurship week or month. (In a later post and SmallBusiness.com entry, I’ll list several). I guess it’s a little...
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Elance Blog served up economic wisdom that seems to confuse some economists: If the economy is growing, dramatic increases in productivity can only cover so much of that improvement. And so, if the Labor Department keeps reporting that jobs are lost, who’s doing all that work that’s expanding the economy? Well, for one thing, labor...
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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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Small businesses have doubled their usage of social media in the past year according to a press release issued today by the Univeristy of Maryland’s School of Business as part of its on-going “Small Business Success Index” annual survey sponsored by Network Solutions. The survey found that nearly one out of five small business owners...
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