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Key Thoughts of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Key Thoughts of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Cause Marketing and Cross-Promotion I commend ALS for the success of its inadvertent ALS Ice Bucket ChallengeIce Bucket Challenge grassroots campaign. What started out as a single video plea from an afflicted ALS person first diagnosed with the disease at age 26, […]

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The Marketing of Mommy Bloggers

How Mommy Bloggers Make the Car Payment From this week’s Crain’s News By Brigid Sweeney March 18, 2013 Despite the cloying name, mommy blogging has been serious business for years—and no one knows that better than Danielle Wiley. Ms. Wiley, a former senior vice president at Chicago-based public relations firm Edelman, launched Sway Group LLC in 2011 […]

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International Women’s Day 2013 is March 8th!

I treat every day as International Women’s Day.  As a working mom of two teenagers — a daughter in college and a son who is college-bound in 2014 – each day involves a great bit of mothering, promoting causes and issues I represent and/or believe in, as well as running a woman-owned business — all to help […]

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Brain Injury Awareness Month

Brain Injury Awareness Month – March 2013 The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) and our network of state affiliates, including self-advocates, families and volunteers across the nation, will mark Brain Injury Awareness Month this March. A brain injury can happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone – a brain injury does not discriminate. In fact, 1.7 […]

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Socially Sparked

Socially Sparked A Blog About Our Society and the People, Places and Things that Spark Our Lives   Welcome to the inaugural of Socially Sparked, a monthly blog about our society and the people, places and things that Spark our lives by making a huge impact for the good of others.  My focus today is on […]

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Twitter’s Vine Video App Adds New Age Restriction to Protect Our Youth

Twitter’s Vine Video App Enacts Age Restriction Amid Criticism for Porn Reacting to Proliferation of NSFW Video Snippets By: John McDermott Published: February 06, 2013 Vine, the social video application that rocketed up the App Store charts when it was first released two weeks ago, has enacted an age minimum for users. All new users and existing […]

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Ella Jenkins Receives Lifetime Achievement Opening Minds Award

       

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A Tech Startup Kinda’ Town, Chicago Is

Chicago’s Exploding Tech Startup Scene: Second to None first posted by Rebecca lliff, Huff Postt Tech, January 28, 2013   After having left Chicago for the West Coast nearly six years ago, I recently returned on a technology-related business trip anxious to assuage my FOMO on perhaps the greatest tech opportunity in the U.S. Within […]

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Education in the News at 113th Congress

Education Committee Revs Back Up In 113th Congress posted on Huffington Post by Joy Resmovits, Education Reporter It’s back to school for Congress. Today, Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, held his first organizational meeting with the 113th Congress’s iteration of his committee. In his opening remarks, Kline […]

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CHICAGO BLUES MAMAS RED HOT! NYC APAP SHOWCASES

Chicago Blues Mamas cordially invites you to attend APAP Showcases You are cordially invited to attend APAP Showcases featuring the Royalty of the Blues     RED HOT!  Holle THEE Maxwell & Nellie TIGER Travis   a Salute to Women in The Blues including Koko Taylor & Billie Holiday   Saturday, January 12th, 55 BAR, […]