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Back to Home Written on 25-Mar-2009 by RonEll

In The Wall Street Journal by Raymund Flandez

As the economic storm builds, local chambers of commerce have geared up to help small businesses in a key area: technology.

From Webcasts explaining how to use social-networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn to find job candidates to Web sites where firms can solicit work proposals and network with peers, these initiatives are enabling small-business owners with limited resources to market their services more effectively, find clients and employees and shares ideas, among other things.

The assistance comes at a critical time: Hurt by the credit crunch and pullback in consumer spending, many business owners are more focused on cutting costs and conserving resources than they are on finding technologies that might give them an edge.

Read the article in The Wall Street Journal
(Thanks to Joe Cozart for bringing this to our attention)

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