My friend and colleague Leslie McLellan wrote this after last year’s SmallTown Event. Since this year’s event is just one week away, I thought you might like her perspective on how it can make you a bit more of a thought leader. And consider making the trip to Hutchinson to join us for SmallTown2012 next week….
Last year at the Small Town 140 Conference, I shared a bit of a rant about how outside people see small towns and why that matters to us getting together online and in person. If you can’t see the video, please click through to Small Biz Survival. Here’s what I said: Last week I opened…
Speakers from 20 states are converging on Kansas November 8, 2012, for a conversation about how high tech thrives outside Silicon Valley and all the usual big cities. It’s the Small Town State of NOW, which we used to call the 140 Conference. Contributor Jon Swanson and I will share apanel on true friendship this year. …
Small towns have trouble competing with the entire global economy, but that’s what we are up against. Dave Ivan from Michigan State University is presenting a webinar of ways we can better compete. In 2009, I heard Dave’s Can Small Towns Be Cool talk, and it was FULL of excellent info. You can bet I’ll…
Today, Sept 20, 2011, around 140 people from small towns in 18 states and 3 countries will gather in Hutchinson, Kansas, to share ideas, and another 3,000 or so will tune in via live stream online. 2010 140 Conference Small Town, Jeff Pulver and Becky McCray. Photo by Jerry Hirsch It’s the 140 Characters Conference,…
Speakers from 17 states are converging on Kansas September 20, 2011, for a conversation about how high tech thrives outside Silicon Valley and all the usual big cities. This is not just a Kansas event. It’s not a local 140. It’s an international event that happens to be held in Kansas. And it’s the only…
A different kind of engine… SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one of those things you hear about online. If you can just change a few magic things, your site will appear higher in the search results, you’ll get more customers, and retire to Bermuda. Or something like that. The things that work in SEO are…
Word of mouth online. You want more of it, but how do you get it?Ever tried emailing your press release to bloggers? It doesn’t go anywhere. We’ll share success stories fromHutch, and other blogger outreach. Want to get the “inside scoop” from two experienced bloggers about how to make them sit up and take notice…
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