I enjoyed reading Outsell’s new report on Social Media in Scientific, Technical and Medical Information Part 1: Social Networking.
The most useful aspect of the report is that it includes the most extensive list I’ve seen of gated professional online networks. A trend I’ve been following for a long time (and worked on [...]

A little while ago, I gave a speech at NYU Stern Business School on “How to Squeeze Maximum Value from Business School: Leverage Your Education to Accelerate Your Career”. How can you maximize the benefits of all the years and all the money that you invested in your business education?
I prepared the [...]

With the growth of Twitter, it seems there’’s been a surge in the use of URL shorteners. They”re also an essential for mailing lists, including Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups, as links over a certain length (40-50 characters) will break for people who use plain-text email.
TinyURL.com was the original, and is still widely used. But [...]

Thank you to those of you who attended my keynote at the America Outdoors annual conference last week. It was also a pleasure to meet and visit with so many of you after the session. I can tell social media is going to be a very hot topic in this industry in the coming year.
As [...]

I hope you”ll join me for this Dec. 16 Free Webinar on ”Where are the Deals?! Private Equity Funds” Best Practices in Deal Origination”.
This is the sneak preview of the research I”ve been conducting with Evalueserve on this topic. My colleagues and I have interviewed over 90 private equity and VC professionals to learn [...]

We are seeking 1-3 volunteer consultants who would like to help do research and prepare some analytics for a series of articles and slide presentations on deal origination by private equity and venture capital firms, particularly their use of Web 2.0 technologies. This is an ideal project for someone interested in learning more about [...]