Patch.com.
Hyper local news.
Local stringers all writing about what is going on in a locality!
Owned and operated by AOL.
I think this is a smart and good effort and investment by the company.
Lots of coverage and lots of cities. Click here to see for yourself.
Read this article; DC is a city of firsts.
We are growing; 17500 new tax payers entered the city last year as citizens.
We have a surplus and money in the bank.
We are adding jobs.
The city is safer. And cleaner.
We have much work to do – but this was a positive message and a lot of good news for people who work and live in Washington DC. This one is worth a look. It doesn’t make for sensational headlines – but it does show progress and steady improvement for our economy and our businesses and our citizens.
Here is an interesting story on local and how newspapers missed the overall media rally over the last two years.
In this story, Groupon is discussed. And its hyper growth.
Groupon today closed up on the market and now has a market capitalization of more than $15 billion.
To put that in perspective, great companies such as the New York Times have a market cap of about $1 billion. The Washington Post and Gannett each have a market cap of about $ 3 billion. McClatchy is less than $500 million.
EBay, the original local new media business, is now valued at about $43 billion. It is all about local listings, community and payments. And it attacked the classified business model of newspapers.
New media businesses that focus on the big new opportunity where local information and commerce intersect build big value. Traditional businesses that wrote the book on local seem to be shrinking. Growth is rewarded.
Out with the old and in with the new on Wall Street as it pertains to local. I was shocked to see this disparity in value of new media vs. traditional media companies. I will be speaking at an important business conference in Boston in March regarding local business and growth strategies. Click here for more info. Thank you.
Social media buzz! Read this article. See which Super Bowl ads were talked about via AddThis and Clearspring Technologies. Smart way to judge if the ads worked. As if you didn’t know which ads would be shared the most?
Also to note, go to Yahoo.com. The #1 trending subject on Yahoo Search right now is – wait for it – wait for it – Brooks Laich! Followed by Stacy Kiebler. Who knew you cared so much!?
Bill Simmons – of Grantland and ESPN fame – once worked for someone – who worked for someone who – worked for someone who worked for someone who worked for me at Aol.
I was one of the co-founders of Aol’s Digital City – Bob Smith and Paul DeBenedictus helped to create it – we opened a city operation in Boston – and Bill Simmons wrote a clever little column about Boston sports. He was a talent; very ambitious and quite a good writer.
He got his start as did many other bloggers at Aol; back in the day.
That is the history – Bill was discovered by Aol.
Bet you didn’t know that?
Huge props to Major of Georgetown.
Getting tons of press about being the #1 store in the country when it comes to sneakers.
Our very own neighbors. Kudos. A great write-up in Slam magazine.
Go visit the store today or go online by clicking here. Quite the selection. Hoya Saxa. And go to Major.
A great read in Harvard Business Review. To be frank, I cover much of this in my book The Business of Happiness and I believe what is stated here is appropriate and insightful.
I think you will enjoy reading this piece. Then go find your organization’s higher calling.
There never has been a better time to be an entrepreneur. Recently I spoke with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as it “celebrates 100 years of representing the ideas, values and interests of free enterprise and the business community.” The chamber recently launched a new digital platform – FreeEnterprise.com. Check out a portion of my interview and the new site.