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 - [...]

UPDATE: I”m not sure which is worse, a bug or a security hole (for the record, I never thought twtAd did this intentionally), but according to twtAd they were hacked and that caused ads to be sent out on several people’’s accounts without their approval. Also, just for clarification, twtAd is not the same as TwittAd, and the [...]

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 [...]

By most people’’s standards, I”m doing very well on Twitter. TwitterGrader currently gives me a score of 100% and has me ranked #265 out of nearly 2 million users it has analyzed.

I”m adding an average of a little over 30 followers per day, and have had days where I”ve added almost 100 [...]

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 [...]

Following a random link on Twitter, I discovered this cool visualization tool called Wordle. We”ve all seen tag clouds by this point. This just adds a nice artistic element to it. I ran The Virtual Handshake Blog through it and loved what it came up with:

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I’m happy to report exclusively that Grouply, the innovative ‘group reader’ startup I previously profiled, just closed a Series A round, including $2 million in new money.  They now support over 1.3 million groups and 700,000 users.  (Disclosure: I am on their Advisory Board).
The round was led by O”Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.  It was oversubscribed, i.e., [...]

Well, I made it official today. I threw in the towel and turned off my auto-welcome DMs (direct messages) I had set up using TweetLater. I”ve had a lot to say on the subject of auto-DMs, and I”ll sum it all up in another post at some point. But for now, I just want [...]

All kidding aside, I do actually have two Twitter accounts, and I know some who have more. It’’s actually becoming fairly common to have a personal account covering a wide variety of topics and one or more additional accounts for specialized niche topics that might not be of interest to your main audience.
For example, @ScottAllen [...]

One of the companies I serve on the advisory board of, Standard Answer, has entered open beta and is gearing up for launch at SXSW Interactive. So I thought I”d take this opportunity to tell a little about the site and why I thought it was cool enough to get involved, when there’’s already [...]