Following are my notes on the BRITE Workshop on Online Communities, at Columbia Business School
Community as Part of Your Site Offering: Strategy from 50,000 Feet and Tactics from the Trenches
Sylvia Marino, Executive Director, Community Operations, Edmunds.com
3 person staff running this. I’m the Executive Director of Community Operations. I have my own P&L. Read More...

Following are my notes on David Rose’s talk at the recent Liminal Group conference, “The Future of Business & Strategy Summit”, on “What’s Next in Business: tomorrow’s game changing technologies”:
I’ve invested in over 75 companies, but I consider myself mainly an investor.
Started my first Internet company in 1998. it took $20m to get to Read More...

I enjoyed attending New York Word Camp 2008, which attracted about 150 avid WordPress users. My notes follow:
Matt Mullenweg, CEO, Automattic, “State of the Word”: NYC Edition
Wordpress was born from a blog: I posted that a prior open-source blogging platform really needed to be taken forward. Someone contacted me, and it grew from Read More...

I recently attended a private talk by Dr. Eric Clemons, Professor of Information Management at The Wharton School, at the offices of www.firstwivesworld.com, the first social network and community dedicated to women transitioning through divorce. He is currently creating a case study on the site. I definitely love their name!
My notes:
He avoids being Read More...