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GrowthRoots Inc. enables your small-business success by delivering Web-based Knowledge Publishing in the Technology-Rich Economic Empowerment (TREE) space at the ultra-urban neighborhood grassroots.

See www.growthroots.com for more. At Brooklyn-based Land Grant's GrowthRoots—LGGR, our Knowledge Publishing company—we strive to build and buttress the commercial success of your small business or micro-enterprise. Our beat is small-business empowering "News, Views, Tools & How-To For TREE." Or, Tech-Rich Economic Empowerment. TREE is bottom-up, DIY, hyperlocal—and all about YOU. Part of our integ

Operating as usual

11/15/2012

ReSTORE 2.0: Sandy Recovery For Small Stores

[Photo Caption: Heavy construction-site timbers scattered about on a Water Street (aptly named!) sidewalk—in front of the kitchen of famous chocolatier Jacques Torres—in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The 18” square timbers were jack-strawed here on Sandy’s surge on the night of 29 October (at this location the f

08/31/2012

Smarter Small Businesses: Startups 2 Ramp-Ups

[Photo Caption: This is the cover illustration to NEW TECH CITY, a May 2012 study by The Center for an Urban Future {The CUF}. This CUF report is about the tech-business boom in Gotham—its causes, growth and future. I use this photoshopped re-imaging of Times Square here to illustrate the power and

08/24/2012

"Smarter Small Businesses"->Recommendations!

[Photo Caption: Here is the cover illustration to SMARTER SMALL BUSINESSES," a public-policy report and (better!) a “what-we-can-do” with or about the findings. The Center for an Urban Future {CUF} in New York City—under the leadership of Jonathan Bowles, Director— created the report.] As this cover

08/17/2012

CUF Finds NYC Needs Smarter Small Businesses

[Photo Caption: Jonathan Bowles, Director of The Center for an Urban Future {CUF} in New York City, talks about the Center and its Public Policy "think-tanking" innovations.] Forget the topless towers, Gotham is a micro-biz town. Particularly when you leave the Manhattan shadows of the Empire State

06/13/2012

3 ICT Innovs: (2) Digital-Divide Bridging V-Pole

[Photo Caption: Vancouver, B.C., Mayor Gregor Robertson “poses” with concept-renditions of Photoshopped “V-Poles” shown in situ in two projected locations (photo right middle ground and middle backgound). The “V” in V-pole stands for Vancouver. This acknowledges the support provided the project by t

06/01/2012

3 ICT Innovations: (1) Small Loans for Small Biz

[Photo Caption: A community bank, now the best friend (BFF??) of the loan-bereft micro-enterprise in the Nabes…]Small-Business Owner, I spend a lot of time each week in research. I’m always seeking to uncover—and then report on—the new and appropriate technology you need to learn about (and perhaps

05/27/2012

Merchants' DigiKit 2: Tools For Finding Tools

My 11 April post was the first in my new, long-term series on the Merchants' DigiKit (sub-titled Your Retailers' Digital Tools). In that post, I talked about why the GrowthRoots’ DigiKit will empower you. In this very dynamic and often difficult Digital World of ours, you CAN advance your commercial

04/16/2012

Ten Topical TW Tweets: Tasty, Timely Tidbits

[Photo Caption: A variation on the Twitter logo! Weekly, I hope to present ten of my best Tweets from the prior seven days or so beneath this logo.]Land Grant @land_grantRetail supports 1 in 4 U.S. Jobs = 42 meg emplys enjoy wages & benefits: $1.49 TRILLION! Check the stats fro

04/12/2012

Merchants' DigiKit: Your Retailers' Digital Tools

[Photo Caption: Software, media, interface tools, connectors and other components and devices go into a digital toolkit for Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) and their small business constituencies in Brooklyn and the City. And, the most important of these is software—the

04/09/2012

Bklyn Tech Triangle->Compelling Prospects

[Photo Caption: Hey, every initiative of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle's importance needs a logo to anchor its brand building. So, I whipped one up to "illustrate" this post. At the least (most??), you could say this logo is literal, if nothing else! I'll be happy to "retire" this p

03/09/2012

SuperMobiles Empower You & Your Customers

[This post is still in the works. C'mon Back!

02/15/2012

Social Media Week NY: Knowledge Ecosystem #2

[Photo Caption: Here’s another screen shot from Social Media Week’s Web site. This depicts the SMW "Official Mobile App" graphically. This app is one of the most effective means to make sense and organize this more or less global, parallel-presented, SocMed “hive happening.” This

02/10/2012

Newbies all should join me in joining Twitter...I'm flying...

02/09/2012

Fashionable Funding: Style Startups Get Pin $ +

[Photo Caption: Your blogger (incognito on the left) and his son-in-law Nico Bazzani—who is, in fact, in the business of fashion—seen (in resonant 20s’ style) at the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governor’s Island last August. My daughter Thea and Nico are partners in BAZZ de GRANT, a j

02/08/2012

http://www.growthroots.como/

As many of you know, all matters entrepreneurial are like the circus act with spinning plates atop too many wands! Or, how many parallel "keep 'em spinning" processes can you maintain without breaking a plate (or business initiative) for want of timely input.

For me, blogging requires a lot of plates spun up on a Editorial Calendar "got to!" timeline. (Right now, that's Mon/Wed/Fri.)

To help keep our Knowledge Publishing deliveries on point (of a "wand" or day), I've just initiated "GrowthRoots Gurus."

I'm starting to create a Guru Team of Guest Bloggers to present audience-focused Knowledge to our a-building community of Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) and their member micro-enterprisers. This is a Team of experts, commentators, authors, speakers, consultants and other value-added Knowledge providers who will Guest Post at www.growthroots.com on a monthly basis.

More to come on this new Land Grant's GrowthRoots initiative...

Got an update from Jason Richelson -- entrepreneur behind and in-front of ShopKeep -- my favorite Mom&Pop-Does-Steroids ...

02/06/2012

ShopKeep Raises $2.2 Million for Web-based iPad Cash Register

Got an update from Jason Richelson -- entrepreneur behind and in-front of ShopKeep -- my favorite Mom&Pop-Does-Steroids POS innovation. ShopKeep garnered $2.2 megs of invest in January! Well deserved!

Here's the link to the Journal story: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/01/17/shopkeep-raises-2-2-million-for-web-based-ipad-cash-register/

I commented on my Profile:
Jason keeps on (shop)keeping on! Love the solution--sheer elegance mated with the cross-boundary Apple ecosystem--and our micro-retailer in Ultra-Urbania needs POS power cm pennies per.

ShopKeep is trying to use Apple’s iPad tablet computer and the Web to break into the mundane but lucrative market for cash register software.

01/21/2012

SoLoMo: NRF's Show Mobile App CyberGuides...

[Photo Caption: This screen shot is grabbed from the “BIG Show Mobile App” landing page on NRF’s site. This App makes the National Retail Federation’s Annual Convention & Expo, the “BIG Show” for 2012, a rational experience.]In that post, I showcased—again—“SoLoMo.” (Because the

01/19/2012

Morsels From The Floor: NRF BIG Show Tidbits

[Photo Caption: Two of many NRF-employed guides at the Javits Center in Manhattan offer to personally direct the uninformed, curious, confused and lost. Reflecting the very-large international presence at the BIG Show, one of the guides presents a sign in Portuguese and Spanish.

01/12/2012

Nat Retail Fed's BIG Show: Your Merchant MUST!

[Photo Caption: The logo for the National Retail Federation's 101th "Retail's BIG Show"—NRF’s Annual Convention & EXPO at the Javits Center next week: from 15 to 18 January. Click the link above for details...] As I say every year at this time—to any size retailer—the NRF BIG Sho

12/16/2011

My Dear Prospective “Likers”!

Yep, I’m new to Facebook. And, I need a little help from my Friends (and Family)! (Kindly overlook my Facebook embarrassments and blunders of commission or omission: I’m learning by doing…and would be delighted to receive your direction, critiques and tutorials.)

A few weeks ago, I published this page for my new "Land Grant's GrowthRoots" (LGGR) Knowledge-Publishing initiative. (As you can see, it’s still very-much a work in progress! At the moment, you can find the richest information about LGGR in—yes!—Info.)

I intend to use this FB Page as the basis for much of LGGR’s initial social-media marketing. Sure, I’ll have to get better first…

LGGR is an entrepreneurial “pivot” for GrowthRoots. Our provisional tagline is “ICT News, Views, Tools & How-To For TREE.” ICT is Information & Communication Technology and TREE is Technology-Rich Economic Empowerment. With LGGR, I’m returning to my writer/journalist/publisher roots. Our audience for LGGR is hyperlocal micro-enterprises and EDOs (Economic Development Organizations) at the community/commercial grassroots.

Now—if you’d like—here’s how you can help me.

I’m starting that great push upward for page “friend” enrollment. To start, my milestones are very, very modest. (Risible, even! Gotta start somewhere…)

First, I need just FIVE Friends to like this "Land Grant's GrowthRoots" page from their Profiles. (This enables me to automatically display my GrowthRoots blog—publishing target: three days a week—on both my Page and Profile “walls” via the NetworkedBlogs system.)

Second, I need TWENTY-FIVE Page “likers” to enable me to capture a unique user-name for my Page URL. (This is all cumulative: so, in actuality, that’s 20 more.) Unsurprisingly, our user-name will be "Land Grant's GrowthRoots."

So, please just “Like” this LGGR Page. Easy as that.

You’re the best!
LAND

11/16/2011

Social Passport: Real-Time Social Engagement

[This is a place-holder for this incomplete post. Thanks for your patience while I gather additional info to complete my text/video report on Social Passport—a company I definitely think you need to know in detail... If you can't wait, take a look at my video interview below of D

11/08/2011

[NetworkedBlogs Verification Widget]

[Test of LG's ownership of this blog (for NetworkedBlogs verification). If you stumble on this exercise, come again and it will be gone...]

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GrowthRoots publishes knowledge online. We are a media company that covers the world of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for a readership of small businesses, micro-enterprises and Economic Development Organizations (EDOs).

Our publishing goal is to present news, views, tools and how-to that will empower our commercial and development readers/audience. At GrowthRoots, that means we strive to convert our segments of your interest into useful, actionable knowledge. And, then to offer that knowledge to you online via our Knowledge Publishing system.

Our small-enterprise and EDO 2.0 Knowledge Publishing offerings look—right now—like this:

>> To support your business success, our Publishing content showcases commercial-enhancement ICT Knowledge.
>> We present commercial-solutions to you that reflect our Mission Statement: “Technology-Rich Economic Empowerment at Your Community/Commercial Grassroots.”
>> At GrowthRoots, we deliver our solution sets Monday/Wednesday/Friday (to start).
>> Our targeted content comes in the form of tailored news, views, tools and how-to for small businesses, micro-enterprises and EDOs.
>> Our delivery vehicle (to start) is my blog at GrowthRoots.com—mirrored here on our GrowthRoots’ page.
>> GrowthRoots will also offer our Knowledge content via our new emailed-eNewsletter vehicle. Because of your demonstrated interest—by "opt-in" subscription—we email “push” our Knowledge to you on a scheduled basis. GrowthRoots’ eNewsletter will feature my blog posts—and also showcase other experts in the ICT, small business or economic empowerment field. To encourage your joining in, GrowthRoots will provide our free whitepapers as premiums or inducements to your GrowthRoots’ eNewsletter subscription.

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