As usual, Dave Pollard posts a well-thought-out, thorough piece on “Social Networking Tools & Knowledge Management: What You Can Do Now“. This was presented at the KMWorld and Intranets 2005 Conference. It includes an overview what was wrong with the traditional siloed social network model (Friendster, etc.), and what you can do [...]

A hotly debated topic in the blogosphere lately has been, what exactly is Web 2.0? Probably the most concise and comprehensible overview I”v seen is from Adaptive Path: Crucial DNA of Web 2.0
Another must-read piece if you”re interested in this subject is Clay Shirky’’s “Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags“. I also [...]

Here’’s the draft of an article we”re working on about how to raise capital with online networks. We”re particularly interested in more success stories about institutional investors who have used online networks to raise capital successfully.
We welcome feedback!
Raising Capital with Online Networks
by David Teten and Harish Venkatesh
Imagine Roger Nusbaum’s surprise when he returned [...]

I”ve been involved for a couple of months in the beta testing of a new toolbar, Free Traffic Bar. I”ve been using another traffic-generator toolbar, InstantBuzz, for a while and been reasonably happy with the results, so when I heard that Garland Coulson, aka The E-Business Tutor, was working on something even better, I was [...]

written by Peter Clayton:

I attended an Internet conference hosed by SG Cowen last Thursday in NYC - their first Internet conference since 2000, btw, — Kris Jacob, EVP of Business Development at Podshow told the audience that…
– currently 10m people listen to podcasts regularly
– there are 50m mp3 players in the US
– 150m mp3 enabled [...]

WizBang is currently holding voting for their annual Weblog Awards. Apparently a number of the nominees, particularly in the Best Business Blog category, are campaigning for votes. Now, I”m not just talking about posting in their own blog and encouraging readers to go vote, I”m talking about going out into mailing lists, social networking sites, [...]

British broadcasting giant ITV announced Tuesday its intention to purchase alumni online networking site Friends Reunited for $208 million.
Intriguingly, while there have been a number of recent acquisitions in the social networking space (in case you haven”t been keeping score, MySpace was recently purchased by News Corp, Dodgeball by Google, Tickle by Monster, and Flickr [...]

I saw the headline in my daily Google alerts and it just about put me into shock: “Online networking used by half of U.S. managers”. So I decided to check out the story.
As they say, there are “lies, damn lies and statistics”. Turns out this headlines based on a survey of members of career [...]

Chairing last week’’s Virtual Handshake conference, “Beyond Blogs and Social Networks: How the Virtual Handshake and Consumer Generated Media Will Make or Break Your Business” was an honor and a pleasure. I”d like to thank Stuart Williams, Ali Curi, and Don Friedman of the Strategic Research Institute for making the conference happen.
For [...]

My last notes from the Virtual Handshake conference:
Idil Cakim, Director, Knowledge Development, Burson-Marsteller, speaking on “Managing Relationships with Influencer Bloggers”.
A shortened version of Idil’’s presentation is here: Managing Relations with Influencer/Maven Bloggers
She recently wrote a short piece that cites some relevant figures about the most influential bloggers: Word-of-MouthTrickles Offline and Online

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