Ankur Thakkar’s road to being the social media guru at the Chicago Mayor’s Office was a little indirect, but he finds that all of his interests led him to where he is today and apply to his current position. After working at the University of Chicago for 11 months, Thakkar started working in government...
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Income disparities seem to appear less distinct when it comes to communicating through social media. “I can always reach my clients by facebook which they keep active even if their phone is inactive,” said Sol Anderson, the regional program manager for LIFT-Chicago, an Uptown-based nonprofit that partners college student volunteers with its low-income clients...
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Are you using Storify.com to report, write, and follow what’s going in the world and in social media? Chicagotalks has a plug-in for that, and we hope you will try it out for yourself. You create your Storify.com curated item first in Storify. Remember to add your own words and don’t just sling together...
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Responding to demand from a passionate youth audience, Archie’s Final Project, dubbed the “little indie film that could,” debuts in Chicago on October 14, 2011 at AMC South Barrington 30. After its unique and long journey from film festivals, the award-winning “dramedy”  has gained distribution based on the feedback and demands of more than...
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Sal Thomas, writing for TheWeekBehind, provides some good advice for those of us who have over-extended our digital social selves. Summer pace is a bit slower than the rest of the year, so maybe you have time to read, consider and pare down your possibly bloated social network: It occurs to me that the...
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