I”m looking forward to speaking at an upcoming conference, Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in the Capital Markets Industry, on September 17 in New York.
Liz Abraham of Financial Markets World reports that they still have slots for a few speakers with experience in using or implementing Web 2.0 in the capital markets industry. [...]

More and more we”re seeing this trend in social media… revenue sharing with the social media and social networking content providers who are really the ones bringing eyeballs to these sites. The latest really cool addition to this that I”ve discovered is TheNewsRoom.
TheNewsRoom allows you to embed individual stories or a player featuring multiple stories, [...]

It’’s amazing just how anti-social some people can be in social networking sites. I suppose it comes with the territory when you have a site with millions of visitors. That doesn”t mean I have to like it, and it is why, generally, I spend more time in the business-oriented sites than the huge public behemoths [...]

Seems like a simple enough concept, right? If you want to be thought of as an expert in your field, besides just knowing your stuff, if you could figure out how experts — not wanna-be experts, but true “A-list” experts that people respect, quote and hire — act, then acting like them, rather than acting [...]

What happens when the “old new world” of internet marketing (and by that, I don”t mean the general sense of marketing on the internet, but more specifically the world of affiliate marketing and information products) collides with the “new world” of Web 2.0?
Well, the result isn”t always pretty. It seems that all the internet marketing [...]

Shara Karasic is an online community consultant and currently the Community Manager for Work.com (where I”m Community Leader for the Sales & Marketing Channel). Shara is a heavy user of social networking / social media sites (she maintains an extensive, up-to-date list here).
Shara was recently interviewed for Tech PR War Stories about social media strategies [...]

I”ve written before about the challenges of being incredibly busy. I will readily admit to being chronically — perhaps even pathologically — over-committed.
One of those many commitments is our monthly Fast Company column. Fast Company is getting ready to make some big changes in their site, expanding on the social media and social networking functionality. [...]

Robert Peck of Bear Stearns recently presented on the theme “Yahoo should buy Facebook“, with a rough valuation of Facebook. I have to admit my skepticism of this argument. Yahoo has a history of not taking advantage of its acquisitions (Broadcast.com…).
Far cheaper than buying Facebook would be to provide a systematically integrated user experience [...]

There’’s some talk going around the blogosphere, being pushed by David Krug of Telegraphik, of unionizing blogging. Krug makes it sound like this is the predominant sentiment in the blogosphere, but in reality, reading the backlash in the blogosphere, it seems that most bloggers are overwhelmingly opposed to the idea.
b5media founder Jeremy Wright offers his [...]

I enjoyed tonight’’s talk by Peter Thiel at NYC Junto, on “How New Technologies Thwart Government and Promote Freedom”. Junto is a libertarian-focused discussion group organized by Victor Niederhoffer. I”ve been following Peter’’s writing for a while, since we overlap directly in our interests in investing and in online networks. Peter is President of Clarium [...]