The title is as true for life as it is for Social Media, "great leaders come from those who learned to follow first". Leadership is not taught in a classroom, it begins during the higher education experience and develops when you become a part of a student group, club, internship or work in student affairs. Those opportunities are what separate the educated from employable professionals. Social Media is very much the same way, if you want to be effective as a thought leader, you'll need to be a follower, first.

Social Media is just a megaphone, think about this tool as just that, a tool. If you went...

Social media can be fast and chaotic for any
business owner, making it crucial not to dive in without a plan. Each month
retailers are presented with a unique challenge to promote products, events and
sales on limited resources and tight deadlines. Taking the time to develop a social
media content calendar is a no-brainer for...

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Businesses of all sizes need to have dogged focus on revenue generation and business growth. They also need to perform certain non-revenue generating activities, like recruitment. If non-revenue generating activities are not performed well, business growth can be hampered in the long run. Hence, resources available to businesses have to be judicially divided between revenue generating and non-revenue generating activities. It is a thin line. SME’s in particular struggle to manage both, because, they do not have the luxury of a plethora of resources available at their disposal. So, in their dogged quest of revenue generation and...

Join us this Thursday, May 23 for #SMLiveECI Webcast #6. This week we will be interviewing Gary Frankie, Communications Specialist of Busey Bank. Tune in and ask him questions via twitter - Tweet to #SMLiveECI!

Tim Montague and Carl Catedral will also review social media marketing news, share tips and topics relevant to small business owners, and announce upcoming social media events and happenings in East Central Illinois. 

We broadcast via Google+ Hangout on Air each week. Join us live Thursday morning at 10am CST. Check out our new web page to watch...

University professors hear a lot of commencement speeches. But one I heard this weekend was unlike any other I've ever experienced. 

By combining the power of digital media, passion for philanthropy, and mobile technology, graduating students at Queens University of Charlotte helped the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation give away $100,000 on the spot during their commencement speech. The experiment was the brainchild of graduation speaker Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president of Knight Foundation. 

During Newton's address, the audience watched three...