I had the pleasure of being the guest on a (the?) twitter #SmallBizChat last night.  The brain child of up and coming small biz powerhouse Melinda Emerson (a.k.a. @smallbizlady ), #SmallBizChat happens every Wednesday night from 8-9PM EST.  Melinda, along with her co-host Cathy Larkin ( @CathyWebSavvyPR ) run a great event that is worth checking into as a listener/participant but also as a guest.  The whole evening is topped off with a PDF transcript of the event made available within in minutes courtesy of Sonia Schenker (@ yourjobmyoffice ). Last night’s topic was, obviously, greening your small business .  I had prepared a dozen questions and answers

and was expecting to field additional questions. But what happened, and here’s the beauty of Twitter and why this kind of event is Twitter at its best, is that a real dialogue occurred.  I didn’t have much chance to interject, mostly because several people had perfectly good answers that came from their day to day operations. For example, when question #2 was posted: I, as planned, posted my 140 character response: Its a perfectly fine answer, but the chat took off and many other terrific “definitions” kept popping up. Read more of this story »

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#SmallBizChat—Twitter at its Best