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DELCO Today Announces Shift in Coverage Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic
As America faces a public health crisis, DELCO Today has decided to shift its coverage from the positive, upbeat news that has become our trademark to coronavirus-related stories that affect our readers and Delaware County’s business, education and nonprofit community. At DELCO Today, which boasts approximately 30,000 subscribers and reaches an even wider audience on…
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Seedcopa Alert: Coronavirus Assistance for Small Businesses
Seedcopa, an affiliate of the Chester County Economic Development Council is sharing information on possible assistance for Delaware County small businesses in the wake of Covid-19. SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza has issued a statement in response to the President’s address to the nation on coronavirus and efforts to support small businesses. She outlined the process for…
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Congress, President Unite Behind Initial Coronavirus Economic Relief Measure
When it comes to formulating a coherent, credible response to the Coronavirus outbreak, bitterly divided politicians on both sides of the isle came together Friday and did the right thing according to an editorial in the Washington Post. Although negotiations between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump’s representative, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, were challenging, said the Post,…
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Delaware County Leadership: Tom Shivers
Tom Shivers, the CEO of FourStone Partners, a West Chester-based provider of business services to a variety of constituents in the workers’ compensation managed care marketplace, spoke with DELCO Today about growing up in Eddystone, his interest in sports, and the competitive nature that drove him to succeed as a basketball player at Ridley High…
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Main Line Health Responds to the Coronavirus, Institutes Visitor Restrictions
Main Line Health continues to closely follow the latest information and updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the coronavirus pandemic that is rapidly evolving in the United States and abroad. Main Line Health is committed to providing patients, staff and the community with up-to-date information about the COVID-19 outbreak in…
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The Only Thing Standing Between You and a Memorable Event Video Are Excuses
By Mitchell Phillips The excuses for not using video to capture the energy and magic of your next ribbon cutting, ground breaking, award ceremony or golf outing are getting old, according to Rachel Grate, a writer for EventBrite, the San Francisco- -based event management and ticketing website. Videos are a smart, quick, creative, and cost-effective…
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You’ve Got News, Share It! 8 Tips for Creating Press Releases that Get Read
With so many online portals, news sites, blogs, and trade journals publishing valuable, well-written content on a regular basis, there’s no excuse to sit on your firm’s big news story writes Lilach Bullock in Forbes. Getting the word out about your company’s new product or service, an upcoming event, a local promotion or prize giveaway, a…
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LinkedIn Learning and Other Online Platforms
By Lynne Williams Knowledge is power. You don’t know what you don’t know, so engage in continuous lifelong learning to improve yourself and your skill sets. In April 2015, Linkedin purchased a platform called Lynda.com and then subsequently rolled it into what is now called LinkedIn Learning. As of April 2018, there is no additional…
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How to Use LinkedIn to Set Up Informational Interviews
By Lynne Williams If you want to advance in your career or need to explore careers as a new graduate or reinvention, you might want to have informational interviews. The late Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute?, refers to these as conversations with an expert or specialist in an industry that…
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Showcase Your Outstanding Work in LinkedIn’s New “Featured Section”
By Lynne Williams If you have not seen a change on your profile yet, it’s coming! LinkedIn is rolling out a new Featured Section under your About Section. You can showcase your outstanding work, whether it is an article, image, link, or document. LinkedIn wants you to share whatever you are most proud of. Your…
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Sharing Photos & Videos on LinkedIn
As the old English adage goes … a picture is worth a thousand words (even though this has been “plagiarized and paraphrased” many times. According to research from Hubspot, visual images are 32% of the most important form of content by marketers and mobile viewing of video has increased by 10 million viewing minutes daily…
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Delaware County Leadership – Ed Welburn, Retired Vice President of Global Design at General Motors
Berwyn native Ed Welburn, the retired Vice President of Global Design at General Motors, spoke with DELCO Today about his most prominent memories of his hometown, his passion for cars, graduating from Conestoga High School, and his choice to attend Howard University, where during his junior year he secured an internship at G.M. Welburn also…
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Football, Philly, and LinkedIn
By Lynne Williams “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing”, according to Vince Lombardi. Do you have a winning LinkedIn profile and how do you even know? What are some metrics that tell you if you are a winner? One way is to get your SSI (Social Selling Index) Score on Linkedin, which is kind…
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LinkedIn Factoids
Did you know there was a LinkedIn directory where you can look yourself up? When I discovered this little factoid recently, I was on L Page 1463 and now am on L page 1469. Why? Because every second, 2 people join LinkedIn. If you want to see what page you are on, here is the…
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LinkedIn for Young Professionals or Young at Heart
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”– Benjamin Franklin As a young professional, you have more years ahead of you than behind you, and as they say … the world is your oyster. As a former K-12 teacher and proud mother of two millennial girls, Sara and…
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Martin Luther King’s LinkedIn Profile & MLK Day Activities
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). In case you are not aware, on January 15, 1929, Michael King Jr. was born. At age five, after Michael King Sr.’s…
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Ridley Park Couple Celebrate Their Son’s ‘Miracle’ Birth Through a Transplanted Uterus
A Ridley Park woman brought home her two–month-old son Thursday, a baby that grew inside a womb transplanted into her more than a year ago at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, writes The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jennifer and Drew Gobrecht call their son, Benjamin Thomas, “a perfect miracle.” Jennifer Gobrecht has a congenital disorder…
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College Grads and LinkedIn
By Lynne Williams Some students finish their college coursework in December instead of May. If you think they are all prepared to be jobseekers, then think again. They do not have their career documents together (resume – one for handing people and another for online applications, LinkedIn profiles, BIO, networking one pager, job tracker sheet,…
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