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Archive for December, 2006

Nine Tools for Researching Leads

Monday, December 25th, 2006

“On the 9th Day of Xmas, Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: Nine Tools for Researching Leads.” Whether you are looking for sales or job-hunting purposes, there are a vast number of services you can subscribe to for free that will bring information on worthwhile new companies straight to you. This [...]

Man of the Year: You (and youtube)

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Back in 2002-3, Scott Allen and I started work on a book about online networks and social software, what today people call Web 2.0. It’’s a great sign of the now-mainstream acceptance of these technologies that Time magazine’’s Man “Person of the Year” is “You”—and discusses all of the technologies we cover in the [...]

MySpaceForBusiness? Or MySpace for business?

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

There’’s a new site up called MySpaceForBusiness.com. On the surface, it looks pretty much just like MySpace, and that’’s a good model. I like the concept. But I won”t be joining.
Why not?
Simple: blatant trademark violation.
This is Trademarks 101. First of all, to their credit, I will note that they do have a disclaimer at [...]

Scott Allen on Out of Time Radio Monday 12/11

Monday, December 11th, 2006

I”ll be appearing tonight on the Clear Vision show on Out of Time Radio at 11pm EST/8pm PST. It’’s a live show, so no telling for sure what direction it will take, but planned topics include how to legitimately make money online; how the Internet opens up opportunities for the elderly, disabled and otherwise homebound; [...]

Truth or Delusion: Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

I enjoyed reading a review copy of Truth or Delusion: Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths, by Ivan Misner with Mike Macedonio and Mike Garrison. Dr. Misner is one of the very few people who have written on this topic (besides Wayne Baker, Herminia Ibarra, and a few others) who’’s done substantive research up to academic [...]