Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 16) at 1pm Eastern I”ll be presenting a webinar in partnership with American Management Assocation (they published my first book, The Virtual Handshake) entitled How to Use LinkedIn to Excel in Your Current Position and Plan for Your Next.
This is not a webinar on the mechanics of how to use LinkedIn - [...]

I enjoyed going to a kickoff event Tuesday night for Keith Ferrazzi‘’s book tour for his new book, Who’’s Got Your Back.  This is a followup on his earlier bestselling book, Never Eat Alone.  He drew an audience of about 300 at the Grand Hyatt hotel. 

I had read a galley copy of the book [...]

Starting this Wednesday, April 22, and continuing for the next two weeks, I”ll be presenting a 3-part webinar series on the use of social media in the healthcare industry (all sessions scheduled for 1 pm EST) in conjunction with The Maloy Group as part of The University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Equipment and Supplies Distribution Program:
April [...]

I”m liveblogging notes from tonight’’s MIT Enterprise Forum event on The Smart Money of Crowds: Collaborative Investing Startups.  This was not hard to organize, and I”m very happy with how the event turned out.
 
Panel Biographies
Roger Ehrenberg, Moderator, Managing Partner of IA Capital Partners, LLC
Roger Ehrenberg is Managing Partner of IA Capital Partners, LLC, his personal [...]

 
Following are my notes on the LEVIN Institute’s Innovate NY Series panel on “Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, on April 1.   A clear theme of the panel: our immigration policy is counter-productive and hurts our economy.  This is particularly apparent in NY, where 37% of the city are immigrants.
 
The panel:
Matt Nimetz, General Atlantic
Jonathan Bowles, Center for [...]

Following are my notes on Liminal Group‘’s 2009 Sales & Marketing Symposium, which took place Wednesday.
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First speaker: Paul Greenberg,
author, CRM at the Speed of Light: Essential Customer Strategies for the 21st Century, President, The 56 Group, LLC; founding partner of CRM training company, BPT Partners, LLC. At the end of 2007, he was the [...]

I look forward to attending a MIT Enterprise Forum of New York panel on April 7, 5-8pm, titled, “The Smart Money of Crowds: Collaborative Investing Startups”. We are fortunate to have as our moderator Roger Ehrenber of http://informationarbitrage.com .  Our speakers are the CEOs or managers of SumZero, Financial Times Alphaville/Long Room , StockTwits, and Covestor. Incidentally, SumZero was [...]

 I enjoyed last night’’s panel on Power and Impact of New Media: Coping with the Economic Crisis at the Harvard Business School Club of New York. My notes follow. 
 
Biographies of the panel participants:
Harris Diamond is CEO of Constituency Management Group (Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG.). The group includes IPG companies in the areas of public relations, public [...]

I look forward to attending Liminal Group’’s 2009 Sales & Marketing Symposium, a half-day morning taking place next Wednesday, March 25, 2009 from 9am to 12pm, at Asia Society, 725 Park, NY. I have one complimentary pass provided by Liminal Group —if you’d like it, write in the comments (preferred) or mail me to [...]

I”m looking forward to attending ACG InterGrowth in Las Vegas, May 12-14, 2009. For those not familiar with it, ACG InterGrowth claims to be the world’s largest conference for the deal industry. We expect more than 2,000 middle market M&A professionals (excluding government-owned companies which are nervous to send their employees to Vegas). [...]