Larry Yatkowsky is a REALTOR in Vancouver, BC, Canada, aye.  (No, that’s not Larry) Besides being one of the wittiest fellows I’ve ever met (I’m smiling now just thinking of our time together in San Francisco), he has a critical and pragmatic mind. His blog, YatterMatters, is one ...

Holy mackerel! Connie Bensen has one hell of a comprehensive list of tasks for which an online community manager needs to be responsible! I mean, if this is a contiguous list, this describes quite an experienced and senior person, that’s for sure. What this shoes you is that the job of OCM is not ...

Image via Wikipedia Holy mackerel! Connie Bensen has one hell of a comprehensive list of tasks for which an online community manager needs to be responsible! I mean, if this is a contiguous list, this describes quite an experienced and senior person, that’s for sure. What this shoes you is that th...

We've come a long way since the Pony Express. It's hard to imagine living in a time when your options for communication were limited to face-to-face, sllooowww mail, and, perhaps, carrier pigeon. Today, we have the opposite problem: there are so many mediums to choose from that a key communication s...

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 ...

Some folks in the real estate industry have decided it’s about time to ask “how big is yours?” referring, of course, to your big bucks return on your time investment in blogging, social media, Active Raining, Facebooking, Web 2.0 yada yada yadaing…. or are you just havin̵...

I’m a social web app junkie. Where most people use a few on a regular basis as a consumer and only a couple as a producer I am an active user on far too many sites. I’m not a beta junkie to the point where I try out every web service (especially not the ones spamming my blog contact emai...

I have had the pleasure of living in many different cities in my life time. 3 countries, 2 continents, 5 Yeshivas, and as any good American I only speak English well, but as a good Jew does I can play Jewish Geography with the best of them. Someone’s uncle usually ate at my dad’s restaurant in I...