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Top Rope Pro Wrestling launched its Facebook page in October. It now has more than 4,700 fans and counting. What does that number mean for the business? Everything. The company’s next show is scheduled for April 13, at this writing still more than two months into the future. And already, Top Rope has sold more than 60 percent of its floor seats and generated $5,000 in revenues.
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The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Virginia filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that when individuals “like” a Facebook page they are engaging in a First Amendment-protected activity
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I was having a conversation with a local businessman this week who said to me that he is “just not into that social media stuff.” Which is fine if he chooses not to use Facebook on an individual basis
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Facebook has opened the power of Timeline to business, industry and nonprofits. Act now – 0nly $99! You may have noticed something new with your Business Facebook Page. Facebook is now allowing businesses to change to its Timeline design – similar to what it already rolled out for personal Facebook pages. Whether you’re ready or…
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A friend on Facebook wonders aloud (on Facebook) about bands on tape on stop signs in Waynesboro. Some signs, Heather Chandler noticed, had one tape band, others two, others three. “Not every sign at any given corner has the tape,” she Facebooked. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. “Does anyone know the reason…
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I tell this to our interns when they sign on in the spring and fall. “Be careful what you share about yourself on Facebook. Because the world is watching.” Just how true this is came to light for me recently. Talking with a web and marketing client about a job opening, I mentioned that a…
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Staff Report UVa. news: www.virginia.edu Though parents often have concerns about letting their teens use social media Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, a new study by University of Virginia psychologists suggests that well-adapted youth with positive friendships will use these sites to further enhance the positive relationships they already have. However, they warn,…
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Seems that the consensus on Facebook to the reporting that we did this week on allegations involving UVA Softball coach Joanna Hardin is: Kids today don’t like to be coached hard
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A Buffalo Gap High School student died in a Feb. 18 shooting on Maple Leaf Drive in Augusta County that the county sheriff, Donald Smith, said, per a news release, was “an isolated incident involving the illegal sale of handguns.”
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The Henrico County Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating Cassidy Pollard, 13, who has been reported missing and endangered.
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