It’s year-end, and that means it’s time for the annual flood of top 10 lists. Imagine my surprise (and delight) when I saw that The Virtual Handshake had made honorable mention (just outside the top 10 – looks like about #16 if he listed them in order) on Chris Tomkins’ Best Social Media Books Read More...

I enjoyed participating in a panel tonight on "Market Research for Entrepreneurs", as part of the Founder Institute’s first series of New York programming.  The other speakers were Nicholas Butterworth, President & CEO, Diversion Media; and Steven Haines, President, Sequent Learning Networks.  
 
My slide deck is below; I’d love to get your feedback.
Free Market Research Read More...

As part of Vertical Response’s Social Media Webinar Series. I’ll be presenting Opening Doors and Closing Deals on LinkedIn on Friday, December 4, at 10am PST / 1pm EST. This will be focused entirely on using LinkedIn to grow your business, not for recruiting or job search, so all you entrepreneurs and sales & marketing Read More...

I just learned that Patrick Questembert has launched Scanbizcards.com, which scans business cards – or any image – and lets you add all the information to your iPhone address book.  I see the value of this app today, but I see it as an interim solution until tools that are purely electronic — e.g., Bump Read More...

First off, let me say that it’s ludicrous that this even merits a blog post, but LinkedIn has so obfuscated the process that it takes a lot of digging to find it. If you just want the link, here it is:
http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php
If you’d like to see how to find it for yourself, read on. Also, if Read More...