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 Read More...

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...

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...

I just spoke today with Andy Lopata, who wrote an interesting piece on CEO networks.

Seems like a simple enough concept, right? If you want to be thought of as an expert in your field, besides just knowing your stuff, if you could figure out how experts — not wanna-be experts, but true “A-list” experts that people respect, quote and hire — act, then acting like them, rather than acting Read More...

Shara Karasic is an online community consultant and currently the Community Manager for Work.com (where I’m Community Leader for the Sales & Marketing Channel). Shara is a heavy user of social networking / social media sites (she maintains an extensive, up-to-date list here).
Shara was recently interviewed for Tech PR War Stories about social media strategies Read More...

Every so often in the business-oriented online communities in which I participate, the issue of free speech and censorship comes up, usually from someone (or several someones) who is testing or pushing the envelope of the acceptable boundaries within the community — profanity, flame wars, etc.
Is free speech an absolute right within online communities? Can Read More...

Sid Yadav writes, “33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era,” a summary with brief profiles of 33 different social networks, each with descriptions and target demographics.

Andrew Shaindlin (who contributed a sub-chapter of The Virtual Handshake) just co-wrote a good piece on Online Networks: A New Tool for Alumni Relations : How third party social and business networking sites can benefit alumni online communities. His coauthor is Elizabeth Allen, Communications Coordinator at the Caltech Alumni Association.
One of the great ironies Read More...

From Jason Dowdell (via Claire Delong of Accolo): Konstantin Guericke of LinkedIn writes:

There are two types of acceptance rates…
1.) Those from invitations
2.) Those from introductions.
Invitations to connect are generally from people you know and trust already, like former co-workers, classmates, etc.. By accepting an invitation, you agree to make introductions for the person when he/she Read More...