The Smalltown Blog

Robert Goldberg joins Smalltown BOD

I'm pleased to announce that Robert Goldberg has joined the Smalltown team.

Robert is the Managing Director of Crossroads Ventures. Prior to founding Crossroads, Robert was the Managing Director of Venture Operations at Idealab where he partnered with the operating teams and helped manage the Idealab portfolio of companies including Snap, Insider Pages, X1, New.net/Vendare Media, Desktop Factory, Evolution Robotics, and Energy Innovations.

Prior to joining Idealab, Goldberg spent more than 20 years in senior management, corporate investment and strategy positions at media, e-commerce and enterprise software companies, including NBCi, Looksmart, and Thinking Machines. He has developed and invested in successful companies across many industries including Web Search, Decision Support Systems, Enterprise Search, Performance Based and Cross Media Advertising. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Applied Science from Columbia University in New York City.

Sales and Promotions

We added some new functionality this week: our local events calendar now sorts event listings by type. We also simplified the user interface for choosing the start and end dates of an event. Icons were added to make it easy to visually scan for certain types of events, specifically:

- Community event

- Education or workshop

- Family fun

- Garage sale

- Grand opening

- Music and theater

- Nightlife

- Open house

- Sale or promotion

- Sporting event

The addition of "sale or promotion" is a great new feature for local merchants and Smalltown users because it's an easy, targeted and free way to let the community know about, well, upcoming sales and promotions. Sure beats a $600 ad in the local paper.

- Hal Rucker