State health exchange spends $446,800 on social media [Links Roundup]

Message Systems offers new email product [The Daily Record]: “Message Systems, of Columbia, a provider of email infrastructure software, on Wednesday introduced SparkPost, a high-performance public cloud email service.”
The Maryland health exchange is spending $446,800 on social media. Here’s what that pays for [Baltimore Business Journal]: “A $446,800 social media contract with the exchange’s marketing contractor, Weber Shandwick, will focus on publishing lots of content — in English and Spanish — that helps residents understand their insurance options and create an online community of happy enrollees.”
Maryland manufacturers join federal facility partnerships [MDBIZ News]: “Two Maryland companies are tapping new 3D manufacturing resources by partnering with local federal facilities.”