How a Dutch B-school is helping its diverse student body develop lasting networks:

One answer, at least at RSM, is technology. Dianne Bevelander, executive director of RSM programs, is using software to map the networks that students form among themselves and track the student connections over time. School administrators hope to use the lessons learned [...]

Despite the growing prevalence of virtual communications business, there’’s still plenty of information that doesn”t get digitally encoded. Recent research (Egocentrism over e-mail: Can we communicate as well as we think? By Kruger, Justin; Epley, Nicholas; Parker, Jason; Ng, Zhi-Wen, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2005 Dec Vol 89(6) 925-936) shows that people [...]

This week’’s Carnival of Marketing is up at Eric Mattson’’s MarketingMonger. Eric decided to toss out the “7 best posts” restriction (which I use at the Carnival of Entrepreneurship). Eric says:
I believe that the restriction really holds back the growth and popularity of the carnival.
I see his point. If people’’s posts aren”t posted, will they [...]

aSmallWorld (profiled here) just raised a confidential sum from the Weinstein Company, the production business started by Bob and Harvey Weinstein after they left Miramax.
Harvey Weinstein said, “I think we”ll become very successful with one million people,” he said, “but we have to find the right one million.”
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MySpace is now offering downloadable episodes of the Fox show 24 for $1.99 per episode. I was interviewed by Jennifer LeClair for E-Commerce Times. This is a pretty intriguing mash-up of social networking and traditional media. I applaud them for experimenting with it — someone has to, and this is easy for them to [...]

I just received a copy of the latest edition of Networking Times, the premiere magazine for the network marketing industry. The latest issue focuses on virtual networking. I was interviewed a couple of months ago by John David Mann, their Editor-in-Chief, and it was one of the most pleasant and thought-provoking interviews I”ve ever done. [...]

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Step right up! Step right up and behold the wonder of the Carnival of the Capitalists, a traveling weekly roadshow that celebrates the many, many ways in which we earn, manage and spend money to educate and entertain you. Depending on your politics and your mood, they may make you cheer, boo, laugh, cry or [...]

Via Marc, I was led to a blog post by David Manaster on recruiter efficiency. He reports that “It would seem that (on average) the optimal workload for a recruiter is between 11 and 20 open positions. ”
I”d argue that the main reason for this phenomenon is that most recruiters are using only [...]

Knowledge @ Wharton reports on: MySpace, Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites: Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow?:

Popular social network sites, including MySpace and Facebook, are changing the human fabric of the Internet and have the potential to pay off big for investors, but — given their youthful user base — they are unusually vulnerable to the [...]