Back when I was blogging for b5media, we were having a discussion at one point about how to get more comments on our blogs. Blogger extraordinaire Liz Strauss shared her experience that she deliberately left posts “open-ended”, even “incomplete”. She pointed out that if you say everything there is to say on a subject, you Read More...

I posted this on my new personal blog on Friday, but as we all know, big announcements really should go out on Monday, so I saved it for here until now.
I’ve been hinting on Twitter for the past couple of weeks about my “big new venture”. Well, this is it! I’m the Read More...

Over the past few days, I’ve gained a massive amount of respect for comedian and TV commentator (Fear Factor, UFC) Joe Rogan. One of the things that has impressed me most is his very raw, open, heart-felt blog. I was especially touched by this passage in this post commenting on the death of former UFC Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

Welcome to the September 24, 2007 (well, depending on your time zone) edition of Carnival of the Capitalists. Sorry for it being late — I had the joy of spending the weekend figuring out why my laptop was overheating and shutting down after 20-30 minutes of use. Once I got it working and reassembled, I Read More...

There’s some talk going around the blogosphere, being pushed by David Krug of Telegraphik, of unionizing blogging. Krug makes it sound like this is the predominant sentiment in the blogosphere, but in reality, reading the backlash in the blogosphere, it seems that most bloggers are overwhelmingly opposed to the idea.
b5media founder Jeremy Wright offers his Read More...

It’s official, as of last week — according to Technorati, and to Kineda’s cool A-List Bloglebrity tool which uses it, I am now an A-List blogger:Now, that might not be all that interesting to you, except that I’ve spent some time analyzing my results and I’ve explained on my blog exactly how I made the Read More...

This week, Jason Alba is doing a series of posts about his blogging secrets. This is a great guide for how to effectively build relationships and your personal brand with your blog.
One of the tips that came up in the comments on his Day 1 post was the matter of using a signature in your Read More...

For a long time, I’ve been wanting to compile some kind of easy resource to help communicate the benefits of LinkedIn to potential users (and to answer the nay-sayers who don’t understand its usefulness). That’s a big task. You could write a book on it, right?
Finally, I realized that it made a whole lot more Read More...