Innovative Community Service

By on May 18, 2012 in How to get involved, Social media

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We’d Love to Promote your Cash Mob

By on May 7, 2012 in How to get involved, Hyperlocal, Social media

Ever hear of cash mobs? In a cash mob, a local store or restaurant is designated by the community as the recipient of a one day promotion where customers spend at least $20, using Twitter and other local media to broadcast the event. Cash mobs can also promote arts events, like youth symphonies, and causes [...]

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Save on Street Fight Summit West c/o Breaking News

By on April 24, 2012 in Social media

Street Fight is the most authoritative information and analysis about the innovation taking place in local digital advertising and tech. In just six weeks, you can participate directly in the conversation around this rapidly changing sector at Street Fight Summit West, an intensive one-day event taking place on June 5th at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco. Specifically, [...]

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Help the Breaking News Network expand our Community Service to you

By on March 15, 2012 in Uncategorized

We’ve submitted an application to the Knight Foundation for funding of the Breaking News Network as the community service media network. It’s a market position we’ve been developing for the past three years. The Knight News Challenge is funding innovative Media Networks this spring, so the topic is perfect for our Network. Knight just posted Thursday that the [...]

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Who we accept to the Breaking News Retweet Program

By on March 15, 2012 in How to get involved, Social media

First, do you know about our Retweet Program? We can automatically retweet your tweets through our Breaking News Twitter feeds. If you have applied to the program and are accepted, you should have received the following email: Hi______, We look forward to helping you get your message across through the Breaking News Network. We have “authorized” [...]

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How to become a first time online entrepreneur

By on March 8, 2012 in Social media

The biggest occupational trend in the restructuring of the economy has been the newly minted entrepreneur. The media regales us with stories about the new startup incubators like Y Combinator, and the success stories of their progeny. All roads to developing a new business point to leveraging the Internet with some sort of social, commercial [...]

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Apply for Automated Retweets through our Breaking News Twitter feeds

By on March 2, 2012 in How to get involved, Social media

Hi, you’ve arrived here from clicking on one our Breaking News Twitter feeds. We’re pleased to help you deliver your messages to your community by retweeting your tweets simply by you adding the hashtag #cityname (in this case #albany)   First, read why it’s our community service mission is to get your tweets broadcast out [...]

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The Breaking News Network is Community Service Media

By on February 23, 2012 in Social media

Here are the ways the Breaking News Network serve our communities: 1) We never push ad sales to our local business communities. We want local businesses to use social media to converse with the community and create a local presence. And doing this is far more effective marketing than a banner ad! 2) We support [...]

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Founderdating.com – Meet your new business partner. App deadline February 20

By on February 8, 2012 in Social media

Founderdating.com is a service founded by Jessica Alter and Saar Gur to make business matches in the new entrepreneurial society. They are setting up meetups in San Francisco, New York and Seattle during the month of March. Applications are due in about two weeks by February 20, and we’re using the Breaking News Network to [...]

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The Story behind the Breaking News Network

By on February 1, 2012 in How to get involved, Hyperlocal, Social media

The Breaking News Network launched in 2009 as a project of the Domus Consulting Group, my former company. Domus started in 2007 as a strategy group to industries like media, real estate and retail that needed to understand how to use social media to reach their local community. Among our first assignments with real estate [...]

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