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City of Chicago embraces social media

It’s 2011 and the City of Chicago is already jumping on board with new trends and embracing social media and technology to accomplish city and business tasks.   The City of Chicago now allows everyone to connect to the vast network of Facebook “Pages” through social media on the city’s Web page. Example Pages include Mayor Richard M. Daley’s page (take... Read more »

By Jay Yearley,
December 30, 2010 at 11:13 am

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ChicagoNow blog community idea turns a year old and growing

  ChicagoNow blog writers and contributers celebrate one year of the online Chicago community news idea. The experiment that began as ChicagoNow a year ago and a bit more began last August 12, 2009. Now, according to this official ChicagoNow staff blog post, the Web site is home to more than 300 blogs written by... Read more »

By Jay Yearley,
August 29, 2010 at 9:27 pm

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