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Archive for October, 2007

Grouply has launched!

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

I”m happy to report that Grouply, an extremely high-potential startup on whose Advisory Board I sit, has just launched. Grouply allows you to access all your online groups like Yahoo Groups in one place with a much better user experience.
Like Meebo, Fuser, and Orgoo, Grouply enables you to access complementary services from one place. And [...]

The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry, Oct. 31, NY

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

I’m happy to be participating at a Software and Information Industry Association lunch /webcast on October 31 in midtown New York, on “The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry”.
The event is on “how your enterprise can profit from social networking: in promotion and marketing, in the development of new [...]

Choose Your Social Networking Photo Carefully

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

In light of all the discussion lately about photos on LinkedIn and its impact on hiring, etc., I found the following pretty ironic when I stumbled across it on MySpace:
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Now it’’s one thing to be unconcerned about what photos a prospective employer might dig up about you if they search hard enough. But [...]

Scott Allen Interview at Electronic Retailers Association Conference

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Last week I spoke at the Electronic Retailers Association annual conference in Las Vegas. The panel was a smash hit (they had to expand the room to accommodate overflow) — much thanks to my fellow panelists, Brett Goffin of Google, Angus Glover Wilson of dComm Digital Commerce Agency and Todd Narwid of Narrowstep.
Well, I was [...]

More on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in Capital Markets

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Christopher Rollyson took some very detailed notes on the recenty New York conference on “Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in Capital Markets.”