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‘Caught on Tape,’ In This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business, available now. Among the highlights:
Haven’t you heard? Today’s the lottery! Let’s all go buy a ticket and become millionaires! Before that, though, read George Waldon’s story on all the security surrounding the lottery and the insane levels of security on each of its tickets.
And speaking of security, businesses are using fancier [...]

Video: Google News Offers Tips, Best Practices for Editors, Publishers

This 15-minute video is totally worth your time if you’re a publisher, editor or Webmaster looking to optimize your news content for Google News. In it, Maile Ohye of Google talks about best practices and answers frequently asked questions about how Google News crawls, indexes and ranks news stories in Google [...]

Are You Ready for Football? The Arkansas High School Kickoff Classic Begins Monday

We don’t usually get too involved in sports on the blog — except when it helps pay the bills! To that end, we’d like to call your attention to an event our employer is putting on, with the help of our friends at 103.7 The Buzz: It’s ArkansasSports360.com’s first annual Arkansas High School Football Classic, [...]

Tonight: A Cajun’s-style #LRTweetup

UPDATED: We had another great turnout! @KatieMcManners posts a photo of one group of us here. Plus: The Twestival announced, see more here.
Tonight: The Fourth #LRTweetup at Cajun’s in Little Rock, underway at 5:30 p.m. Come socialize (in person!) with local Tweeters on the bank of the Arkansas River. RSVP here (lots of you already [...]

The Friday Week in Review: Abbreviated Edition

Have we mentioned how out of it we’ve been? This week has been one slow slog into oblivion. Fortunately, some stuff happened, and now we’ll relive it.
Here’s a quick look back at The Week That Once Was, blogwise:
Bullwhiz, the e-mail gossip sheet founded by Paul Johnson back in the day, has made its latest comeback.
We [...]

Video: The Do’s and Don’ts Of Using Twitter in the Workplace

Today on “Today’s THV This Morning,” I sat down with Charles Crowson (who tweets @CCrowson016) to talk about what can happen when your Twitter life affects your work life. Or, rather, when you say something stupid on Twitter and your boss finds out.
Just as users are having to learn to watch what they post on [...]

The Long Goodbye: BJ Sams Says Farewell on Friday

After more than 50 years in broadcasting (“Fifty-six,” he’ll remind you), BJ Sams is signing off tomorrow. His final broadcast of “Today’s THV This Morning” happens Friday.
This morning, before tomorrow’s busy farewell, he spent some final moments with his long-time “This Morning” co-host and sparring partner Tom Brannon, who commissioned a special “long-distance dedication” for [...]

Free Apps, Free Parking, Happy Hour All Night at Copper Grill for #LRTweetup

A reminder: Tomorrow night is the third #LRTweetup, this time at Copper Grill in downtown Little Rock. We’ve got full details about time, RSVPs and more on the official #LRTweetup site.
Also: Copper Grill, which tweets here, is rolling out the red carpet, offering happy hour specials all night long, free parking in the parking deck, [...]

Update: Lottery Commission Issues Advertising RFP, Takes Action on Staff Salaries

The Arkansas Lottery Commission today took action to reign in staff salary spending, passing a motion requiring its personnel committee to approve of the hiring of any staff position that pays more than $80,000 per year.
ArkansasBusiness.com Assistant Internet Editor Mark Carter was live-tweeting for Capsearch from the meeting, and his reporting is available here. Also: [...]