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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. It says so right on their website.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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4 secrets to successful social media

Entrepreneurs' Organization

billion users on social media. And every business owner and founder knows that social media is one of the most cost effective ways to market your products and services. . We asked members of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in Australia to explain how they use social media. According to some estimates, there are 3.80

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. Why is that? That was the only way.

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Growing your online presence: How to manage your organization’s social media

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Using social media to promote your organization has become one of the most important strategies and skills an entrepreneur can have. Creating a community. Entrepreneur David Dávila believes that the key to his coffee company ’s success lies in his community of passionate customers. The lesson? Brevity and accessibility.

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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. Does crowdsourcing represent the beginning of the end of creative organizations? Try the waitlists. So which is it?

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. Cotorruelo said in an interview, referring to the the courses, but also the company’s community of users.