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On the morning after Door County’s windstorm, author Wayne Breitbarth was in Sturgeon Bay at Glas to present a dynamite lecture with step-by-step instructions on how to maximize LinkedIn for business… too bad only 4 people were able to get there to benefit! But, I was one of them and I came equipped to deal [...]

Social Media Breakfast Door County launches its second year of off-season training and informational gatherings with noted author and LinkedIn expert, Wayne Breitbarth at Glas Coffeehouse in Sturgeon Bay on Friday, September 30 from 9 – 10:30 am. Wayne Breitbarth has instructed more than 10,000 business people on how to effectively use LinkedIn, the professional [...]

After you claim your listing in Google Places for Business, there’s plenty of work remaining. This set of slides will get you started with a dozen of the most important free local listing services and a way to manage your online business reputation  – plus there’s 40 more down below if you decide to go [...]

“All media will be personalized in three to five years,” says Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. “People don’t want something targeted to the whole world – they want something that reflects what they want to see and know.” Sandberg’s comments, delivered at a conference in September, 2009, may have underestimated the speed at which [...]

The January monthly SMBDC meeting is sponsored by Brew Coffeehouse, providing participants with delicious coffee and snacks on Wednesday, January 19 from 9 – 10:30 am. At the close of 2010 when Time Magazine named Mark Zuckerberg their person of the year, they not only paid homage to the creator of Facebook. They also recognized [...]

Social networking means “More honey in Door County, when DCBs create a hive mind.” “In most human affairs, the idea is to think globally and act locally,” wrote Pulitzer Prize winning French humanist René Dubos in 1972. For more than four decades I have been following that directive in northeastern Wisconsin starting with the peninsula’s [...]