This content from: Duct Tape Marketing 7 Ways to Have Character (and Show It) on LinkedIn This is a special Make a Referral Week 2009 guest post By Scott Allen, author of The Virtual Handshake The best way to increase the number of referrals you receive is to increase your worthiness of receiving th...

The popularity of LinkedIn has soared - the year over year growth is 200%, and the economy is the culprit. I’m seeing people on Twitter talking about their education, and looking for work, asking for leads. Facebook has seen growth as well, with people friending others, no matter how remote, i...

Today I was part of a panel session about Web 2.0 tools for the GMC/PCMA Greg Fine - Association Forum showed some of their Association Professionals throughout History video showed the map of online communities from 2007 (”gulf of youtube”) social media is about building community, and ...

Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. He worked at Paypal, founded LinkedIn, and invested in dozens more. Last night, he appeared on Charlie Rose (full interview embedded above, full transcript below), where he talks about the rise of social networking in general, and LinkedIn’...

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“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.� Napoleon Hill It’s been said that the most lucrative source of profit for most companies is in their existing customer relationships. And, that it takes more effort to get new customers than to keep you...

      Communicating in 140 characters or less! I’ve never really stopped to think about the various social networking sites and tools until my son and I had a conversation that left me feeling quite blond and puzzled. Not hard, I know, but still… humor me here. I’m just not sure...

Social media is becoming completely integrated in our lives.  It has altered the way we communicate as human beings and changed the way we do business.  It has flattened corporate hierarchies and tightened our relationships.  Of course, traditional ways of networking and messaging still hold true...

I spent twelve years employed by corporate America and the past eight years consulting to them on strategy and business development issues. Since the Dow took a nose dive last fall, many friends and some clients have lost their jobs, and those who haven’t are the working wounded, taking up the...

Being back in school and taking statistics and finance classes again has reminded me how much I love data. I am not one of those crazy guys who loves data in an unhealthy way and thinks that more of it will solve of all of the problems in the world mind you.  Nor do I believe it can always be trust...