New York University college student Chris Duncan (who is interning with us) writes:
Nearly everybody has a professional presence online–even college students who don’t realize that their personal virtual presence is also often their professional personal presence. It is increasingly important to protect these representations of ourselves.
Without realizing it, these footprints that Read More...

BusinessWeek has a good piece about the expert-matching industry (page 52 of the
current issue):
“We cut out the analysis that clients are perfectly capable of doing themselves,” says David Teten, chief executive of New York’s Nitron Advisors LLC.
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and Yahoo! Finance reports: Consulting’s High-Wire Act:

David Teten says the consulting is very convenient, intellectually stimulating, and may Read More...

I’ll be speaking in New York on August 3, and hope that you will join us:
The Virtual Handshake: Close Your Next Deal Online:
You’ve heard about blogs, social networking sites and other new ways to connect with people. But are you using them? Learn how to get new clients, raise money or even find Read More...

I have had several conversations with Erik Wachtmeister, CEO of aSmallWorld. Micaela Owusu and I have added a profile of aSmallWorld to our Social Software Company Profiles Directory. You can see it here: aSmallWorld corporate profile.
Highlights:

aSmallWorld is a by-invitation-only social networking community, targeted at “an international population of successful people with well established Read More...

A well expressed blog can do for a job seeker what a resume cannot — it provides insight into your thought processes, creativity, and communication skills. It can demonstrate to your reader how involved and interested you are in your field, and this presence can make all the difference to a potential employer. In fact, Read More...

Paul Allen (founder of Infobases, Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com, not the Microsoft one) kicks off a recent Entrepreneur Magazine article, Working the Net, demonstrates the level that tools like LinkedIn have risen to for some people:
Paul Allen, managing partner of business incubator Infobase Ventures in Provo, Utah, likes to help entrepreneurs with advice on business plans Read More...

From Target Marketing Magazine (7/1/05):
“Tricks of the Trade”, By Regina Brady
Are your e-mail recipients only seeing half of your subject line? Is your e-newsletter being flagged as spam? Here’s a handy guide to some of my favorite online sites and utilities that should help you in your e-mail and online marketing efforts. And, the Read More...

The Small Business Administration, drawing on their traditional face-to-face conferences, is now launching an experiment in online business matchmaking:

Business Matchmaking is a partnership between the U.S. Small Business Administration and HP, matching small companies with federal, state, and local government agencies and large corporations that have actual contract opportunities for products and services offered by Read More...

I’ll be one of the featured speakers/discussion leaders at the upcoming KM Cluster event in Dallas on July 15, Enterprise Social Tools and Software. The morning session will focus on business blogs, led by Bill Ives, Ph.D., coauthor of Business Blogs: A Practical Guide, a vendor-independent collection of 70 case studies of successful bloggers. Read More...

Wharton student David Moradi has written up a summary of Keith Ferrazzi’s book, Never Eat Alone: and other secrets to success, one relationship at a time. You can download his notes here: Reader’s notes from NeverEatAlone.