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We’d Love to Promote your Cash Mob
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 [...]
Save on Street Fight Summit West c/o Breaking News
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, [...]
Who we accept to the Breaking News Retweet Program
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” [...]
How to become a first time online entrepreneur
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 [...]
Apply for Automated Retweets through our Breaking News Twitter feeds
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 [...]
The Breaking News Network is Community Service 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 [...]
Founderdating.com – Meet your new business partner. App deadline February 20
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 [...]
The Story behind the Breaking News Network
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 [...]
Why we want to retweet your tweets and get your word out
Welcome! The Breaking News Network is a national hyperlocal network in over 300 cities dedicated to community service and social media sourced news. Each city in our network is managed by locals. If you’re a business, civic group, arts organization or good cause, and you’re actively using Twitter to share your community news, events, initiatives, [...]
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