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    Small Firms Say LinkedIn Works, Twitter Doesn’t —Wall Street Journal Plus: YouTube Starts Charging

    Six Out of 10 Small-Business Owners Buy Business Benefits of Social Media; 41% Prefer LinkedIn; Only 3% Vouch for Twitter  Not that that stopped Twitter from getting a $9B valuation this last week.   Emily Maltby and Shira Ovide report that the Wall Street Journal and Vistage International recently surveyed 835 small business owners.  Here are the results.

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    If a Business Owner Dies, Who Can Access the Web?

    This is increasingly a point of concern, writes Molly Williams at the Wall Street Journal’s Small Business Blog. Business owners can eliminate the possibility legal chaos on this front by ensuring Web accounts are in their business’ name, rather than their own.   And it’s probably not a good idea to include  account numbers and passwords in wills and trusts because those can become public documents. A few states have passed specific estate laws addressing the issue: As small businesses move more operations online, there’s an unpleasant question they need to ask: What happens if the one person who has…