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How Texas Restaurants Are Using A Safety Seal of Approval To Get Customers Back

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In a nod to community efforts to boost customer experienced, individual consumers can report on health efforts at Texas eateries — and whether they are enforcing standards such as social distancing and more official standards mandated by the state’s governor. That might change a bit when this is all over.

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Executive Order Looms For Social Media Firms On Content? 

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As noted last week, the draft order, which was seen and reported by CNN , would place the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in charge of how marquee names such as Facebook and Twitter show what is on their sites. In the UK, Too.

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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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There’s community-based and community-driven. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. The studio will serve as a central hub for consumers and creatives, with the goal of giving back to the local community. Our downtown L.A. “Downtown L.A.

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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways. Data about existing customers can even help community banks improve their efforts to find new customers.

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ICBA LEAD FWD Summit

Independent Banker

At this year’s ICBA LEAD FWD Summit, up-and-coming community bankers gathered from around the country to strengthen their leadership, technical banking and advocacy skills. Bolton welcomed LEAD FWD attendees in Fort Worth, Texas. ICBA chairman Brad Bolton showed examples of ICBA bankers on social media.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Facebook’s News Accelerator Nets Extra $5M For Local Newspapers

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Really, the focus is on building the right type of community. Tim Griggs, a former executive at the Texas Tribune and The New York Times , is Accelerator’s executive director. Also in January, the social media giant opened a 130,000-square-foot office in Cambridge , Massachusetts.