Storming the Campuses
The historic rivalries of the Ivy League have reached the Internet in the form of an online computer game that is a riff on classic territorial-conquest board games, such as Risk. read more | digg story
View ArticleSXSW: Rude is Rude, Enough is Enough
At first I agreed with Michael Rubin’s opinion about the way the crowd acted at Mark Zuckerman’s SXSW keynote when Sarah Lacy did a horrible job as the interviewer. However, the more research I did on...
View ArticleBirth of a Sales Tool: LinkedIn Meets eBay
Serial entrepreneur Evan Sohn believes that selling is a broken trade. He’s here to fix it, and he’s attempting to do it with an intuitive venture that is an experiment in sales all its own. read more...
View ArticleRevisiting LinkedIn
There are many reasons why LinkedIn can be ideal for maintaining and possibly developing the loose ties or weak links you have in your network. read more | digg story
View ArticleBarack Obama Is Rocking the Youth Vote
It’s old news that Obama is popular with younger voters. But this article on Search Engine Watch by Liana Evans explains how much more effective Obama’s use of social media websites has been than his...
View ArticleOnline Community Membership Swells – eMarketer
Another interesting story from eMarketer, this time about the large numbers of people who are joining all kinds of online communities. Nearly half of US Internet users surveyed for the USC Annenberg...
View ArticleSimple Words of Praise, Part 2
I finally got tired of seeing my LinkedIn progress bar stuck at 90%. The explanation offered said that if I recommended someone in my network, then it would go up to 95%. I kind of assumed that if I...
View ArticleSocial Networking Has Gotten Political — In a Good Way
Roger Cohen’s NYT column, “The Obama Connection,” starts off with a play on Bill Clinton’s famous line from his first presidential campaign (“It’s the economy, stupid”): “It’s the networks, stupid.”...
View ArticleHow to Write a Business Recommendation – Conversation Agent
Wish I had read this good advice from Valeria Maltoni’s Conversation Agent blog before I wrote a bunch of LinkedIn recommendations last weekend, but I’ll certainly keep it in mind for the future. Some...
View ArticleWon’t You Be My Neighbor?
Why is it that in an age when we can create community anywhere, we often don’t know the people who live next door? This is an extraordinary story about a man who decided to make a big change in his...
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