{"id":155,"date":"2010-05-10T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.same-page.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2010-05-03T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:54:48","slug":"can-social-media-serve-a-purpose-in-growing-your-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.same-page.com\/index.php\/can-social-media-serve-a-purpose-in-growing-your-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Can social media serve a purpose in growing your small business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes social media is a great consensus and strategy building tool that belongs in a toolkit for cloud based collaboration software solutions.  I like to think of organizations as having an &#8220;ecosystems&#8221;. 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