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☆ 8 people share how they use Facebook groups to score freebies and market their businesses
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Sonah Lee-Lassiter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Users turn to these groups for career advice, upcycling belongings, parenting tips, and even to market their small businesses. Learning new thingsCassier Weiner is in more than 50 mostly hobby-based Facebook groups. Sarah Dahan, an online community strategist, said the root of a thriving community online and offline is maintaining a consistent value system. Facebook doing its partJonathan Twombly runs a real-estate business through his Facebook group "Multifamily Investment Community," which has about 12,000 members. "Facebook groups are very underutilized by people my age," Kim said.

☆ How small-town Maine embraced a family that fled the Taliban
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Elyse Lightman Samuels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Last November, at about midnight, Omid was lying in bed in his new home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine — exhausted, but unable to sleep. On this night, and on many nights during Omid's first few months in Maine, Nasir was soon at his door. Omid's family arrived in Maine just before Halloween in 2021 and recently celebrated one year in Maine. Catholic Charities, the local refugee-resettlement organization in Maine, was working with Omid's family to help them resettle. After Omid's family escaped Kabul, members of his extended family came by to collect some of their more precious items, and gave other things away.

Mockingbird is recalling approximately 149,000 of its single-to-double strollers after receiving reports that they can break and cause children to fall. According to a release posted to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's website, Mockingbird has received 138 reports of cracks in the frame that have led to eight injuries involving cuts, scratches or bruising to children in the strollers. The New York-based company said the strollers are manufactured in China. Mockingbird said people who own the strollers that have a lot number between 20091 and 22602 on the product label should immediately stop using the strollers and contact Mockingbird to receive a free frame reinforcement kit. The kit includes two frame clamps that attach to the sides of the stroller to reinforce the frame.

☆ Eddie and Brian Holland Had Different Gifts. Together, They Became a Supremely Creative Pair.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brothers Eddie Holland and Brian Holland are songwriters who, with Lamont Dozier, helped create the Motown sound. Eddie, 83, and Brian, 81, are co-authors of “Come and Get These Memories” (Omnibus), a memoir. Their Four Tops musical, “I’ll Be There,” with 10 newly composed songs, will premiere in the spring. Eddie Holland: I was kidnapped when I was six months old. My mother had put my stroller in front of our house unattended for a few minutes so I could get some sun.

☆ Eddie and Brian Holland Had Different Gifts. Together, They Became a Supremely Creative Pair
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Explainer: COVID, flu and RSV this U.S. winter: Why experts are worried
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Nancy Lapid | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File PhotoOct 26 (Reuters) - U.S. doctors are warning that a surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is coinciding with an increase in COVID transmission and an earlier-than-normal flu season, raising the specter of a "tripledemic" of respiratory illness this winter. In particular, RSV infections among young children are reportedly filling some U.S. hospitals to capacity. Older children and most adults typically experience mild, cold-like symptoms. In the meantime, it is important "for everyone to get up to date on their COVID and flu vaccines," Varma said. Part of the increase in RSV cases is due to the relaxation of COVID-precautions, such as masking and social distancing, which reduced rates of both RSV and flu during the pandemic, Varma said.

☆ A 32-year-old CMO took advantage of his company's work-from-anywhere policy to spend 3 months in Spain. Here's what his days are like.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

His employer, Enablix, has a work-from-anywhere policy and he received support from his manager. Ziech-Lopez and his family are considering a permanent stay after their initial three months. Luckily, Ziech-Lopez works for Enablix, an Atlanta-based marketing-software firm that has a work-from-anywhere policy. While leaping into the unknown can be daunting, one person's journey can shed light on what a work-from-anywhere policy looks like on the ground. The green space in Madrid, Ziech-Lopez said, is striking.

Popular stroller company UPPAbaby is recalling more than 14,000 jogging strollers after the tip of a child's finger got caught in the brake and was amputated. The voluntary recall involves all UPPAbaby all-terrain RIDGE jogging strollers in white, charcoal and slate blue. UPPAbaby All-Terrain RIDGE Jogging Stroller. The product safety commission said customers should stop using the stroller immediately and contact UPPAbaby for free replacement brake disks. Despite passing all tests and meeting all standards, UPPAbaby received one report about the all-terrain RIDGE stroller," said the statement.

☆ 'Bad Summer People,' a salacious summer read, is causing chaos in a Fire Island town full of wealthy Manhattanites
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-15 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The source of the tension, whether real or perceived, was Rosenblum's forthcoming debut novel, "Bad Summer People." But it has already sent the tiny town, located off the coast of Long Island, New York, into a tizzy. But everyone DVR'd, everyone watched it, and everyone relished that their little summer town was somehow elevated to prominence." Rosenblum simply took events that punctuated the summer, like the town-wide Bay picnic and the summer tennis tournament, and used them as a backdrop for her fictional drama. "You'll see him on the tennis court, and you'll see her around town, and nothing's going to change," they said.

☆ We're Opendoor execs who took paternity leave. It didn't just improve our personal lives — it made us better leaders.
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-04 | by ( Ian Wong | Mark Kinsella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

They say taking paternity leave when their respective kids were born was one of the best decisions. However, there are numerous benefits to taking paternity leave. While taking paternity leave seems like an individual action, it has significant meaning. We've seen employees, regardless of their seniority, take paternity leave without reservations and with the full support of their teammates. For both of us, the benefits of taking paternity leave were immeasurable.

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