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New media consultant Alex Torpey utilized social media to win the Mayoral Race in his New Jersey town. When Barack Obama was running for office in his memorable 2008 campaign, one of the many ways he captivated America was through social networking. He recognized that an online movement could influence offline behavior in politics

I’ve written about Twitter multiple times here on Inc and the posts have always been quite popular.

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With Slashtag.it, you can search just about any site you'd want to, all from the same homepage or search bar. You might only save a few seconds on every search--but after a while, those seconds add up

A leading search marketing firm says Google's best shot at becoming competitive in social is acquiring Twitter. Yesterday, Google searches became more social with +1, which allows you to flag URLs you like for others in your social circle. It seems the next logical step in Google's gradual encroachment on the social space

The long-awaited New York Times digital subscriptions paywall has been revealed and, at first glance, it seems to be exactly how Apple would like it to be. Print purists will be pleased it's more expensive than the paper edition.

Could Flattr be the future of making a living doing what you love? When you sign up for Flattr, a social micropayments service, you dedicate a flat fee per month to the site.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and CultofMac.com editor Leander Kahney discuss Google, content farms, and Demand Media (plus a personal account of how the tweaked algorithm almost ruined Kahney's business) in our latest edition of The Cold Call. Welcome to another edition of Cold Call , where we zing a question to our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech evangelists to see how they answer--and how you'd respond.

Most start-ups cannot afford the luxuries of ordering a custom website build-out or paying a retainer to an online marketing agency. I'd even venture to say that the thought of building a website is off-putting for most would-be business owners. However, fear not my aspiring entrepreneurs, you don't need big money to look like a big company.