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Archive for April, 2008

visit to SF Bay Area May 5-8: Wharton & Columbia Business School Alumni Clubs

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I”ll be visiting the San Francisco Bay Area May 5-8, and hope that you can attend some of my investor seminars to the Wharton and Columbia Business School Alumni Clubs:
Topic: “Squeezing Blood from a Stone: The Professional Investor’’s Guide to Eliciting Information”
Host: Wharton Club of Northern California
Learn how professional investors elicit maximum information in minimum [...]

Can Comcast Scale Social Media Customer Engagement?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Authentic social media engagement has the power to transform brands that have a declining reputation for customer service. Microsoft, led by Robert Scoble and the Channel 9 team, reversed their image as a company out of touch with its developers. Dell, spurred on by the public complaints of A-list bloggers like Jeff Jarvis (here’’s a [...]

Survey - LinkedIn Community Evangelism, One Year Later

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

LinkedIn launched their blog in April 2007. One year later, how are they doing regarding community evangelism and social media participation?
I’ve set up a simple survey which I hope you”ll take a minute to fill out. For additional background if you”re interested, see my post at Linked Intelligence.

My New Favorite Blog

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

I”ve long been fascinated by the economic approach to human behavior, as described in books like David Friedman’’s Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, the popular Freakonomics and the collective work of Nobel prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker.
Prompted by a conversation on MyLinkedInPowerForum about the relative value of LinkedIn vs. MLPF — not to [...]

Why Your Company Needs a Blogging Policy

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I could go into a long explanation about legal liability, etc., but Jeremiah Owyang said it perfectly on Twitter today:
Many bloggers I know prefer a blogging policy at work, as it helps to distinguish where the guardrails are.

Twitter in Plain English

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Yet another great video from Lee LeFever explaining a Web 2.0 phenomenon:

Ready to try it? Join Twitter (if you”re not already on it) and follow me!
More great Web 2.0 videos from Lee:

Social Networking in Plain English
Blogs in Plain English
Wikis in Plain English
Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
RSS [...]

The End of Free at LinkedIn? April Fool’’s!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Unbelievable news out of LinkedIn tonight:
4/2/2008: Yes, this was supposed to be completely unbelievable - it was an April Fool’’s joke.
LinkedIn to End Free Service
4/2/2008: No, they”re not really.
I knew this day was coming.
4/2/2008: Every April Fool’’s Day has a day after,  when we all clean up the mess we made.