http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com Blogs, social network sites, social software---and how to use all of these tools to become dramatically more successful Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   I hope you''ll join me for Boosting Returns With Web 2.0 Technologies, a special 90-minute interactive webinar, July 23, 2009, at 12-1:30 Eastern; 11-12:30 Central; 10-11:30 Mountain;  9-10:30 Pacific.  It is hosted by Buyouts Conferences'' Private Equity University.   ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/07/02/boosting-returns-with-web-2.0-technologies-webinar-july-23-12-130-et-buyouts-conferences 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 ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/06/15/linkedin-strategy-webinar-june-16 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.  ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/06/01/keith-ferrazzi-book-tour-whos-got-your-back It''s official. As of Monday, May 25, I''m no longer the Entrepreneurs Guide at About.com. You can read the full story and more about what''s next for me on my personal blog. http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/05/26/moving-on-from-about.com Institutional Investor reports on a range of startups trying to create platforms for investors to connect online with hedge fund managers.   Members-only Web sites with names like CapIntro.com, HedgeACT.com and HedgeConnection.com promote their online offerings as an alternative to real-world meet and greets. They ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/05/21/hedge-funds-feel-tug-of-internet-matchmaking 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 ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/05/10/twtad-whale-fail For our research project on VC/private equity deal origination, Renny Monaghan of Salesforce pointed me to a 2008 Dreamforce panel on Asset Managers and How They Power Their Businesses with Salesforce CRM.  The video and Powerpoint are downloadable here.  My notes follow. ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/05/08/asset-managers-and-how-they-power-their-businesses-with-salesforce-crm Mark Cecil, Conference Manager, Buyouts Magazine, wrote a brief poem for introducing my talk at next week''s ACG Intergrowth.  I don''t think I''ll use the poem (it''s not my style) but I liked it so much I had to post it.   The Evolution Of Networking..a poem ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/05/07/the-evolution-of-networking.a-poem-by-mark-cecil I enjoyed presenting yesterday at the Association for Corporate Growth Due Diligence Symposium on "Squeezing Blood from a Stone: How to Elicit Maximum Information in Minimum Time from Management and Industry Sources".  I''ve posted an edited version of my slides below.  As always, I welcome feedback. Squeezing Blood from ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/05/07/squeezing-blood-from-a-stone-how-to-elicit-maximum-information-in-minimum-time-from-management-and-industry-sources The health newsletter of Dr. Weil has an interesting piece on how musician''s brain waves synchronize when they play songs together ("Musicians'' Brain Waves Are Also in Tune"). A researcher at the Max Planck Institute looked at electrical activity in the brains of pairs of guitarists and found that ... http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/04/27/synching-team-mindsets