flickr posts, articles, and infographics

Building and Backing Startups in a Recession

November 24, 2009 by Joey Lo
with 209 views

With the economic climate being heavy on the minds of investors, it is important to remember that a time of recession is not always doom and gloom. A great number of successful companies got their first boost towards success during a recession. Companies such as Apple, Atari, and Oracle all began their steady climb to dominance in a... [read more]

Be a Social Media Black Belt with Posterous

July 31, 2009 by Tac Anderson
with 284 views

Image via Wikipedia When asked what the next “hot” thing is in social media, I say work flow. I know it sounds boring, but tools that streamline the process of social media management and allow us to scale all this playing around on the Web we call social media *work* is so hot right now. That’s the main reason I geek out on Posterous... [read more]

Tracking Your Customer’s Social Media Activity

July 14, 2009 by John Jantsch
with 162 views

This content from: Duct Tape Marketing The more you know about your customer’s world the more you can help them get what they want out of life. To some degree, no matter what we sell, that’s the ultimate goal of serving a customer. Smart sales folks have always made it a habit of discretely discovering everything they can about... [read more]

A Brief Guide to Personal Branding using Social Media

June 20, 2009 by HasanShirazi
with 238 views

Becoming a thought leader in an industry requires expert level knowledge and vision, accompanied with the ability to communicate and align with relevant people. Social media provides that platform and power to reach out to people online and create a powerful and long lasting personal brand. Personal branding is no different than product... [read more]

The Six Directions of Social Media

April 4, 2009 by Danny Brown
with 229 views

Ancient philosophers believed life could be broken down into six different directions: Above, or Heaven - this reflects your dreams and hopes. Below, or Earth - this is your grounding and where you are now. Forward - where you want to be in your life. Backward - what you’ve overcome and left behind. Left - those who give you... [read more]

High Points on the Social Media Landscape

March 10, 2009 by Tom Pick
with 444 views

In "The 4 C's of Social Media," I noted that coming up with a concise definition of social media, like defining "art," is challenging. Describing it through the four C's—content, context, connections and conversation—was one approach. Another is to look at the different types of... [read more]

The End of Privacy! (Cont'd)

March 5, 2009 by Albert Wenger
with 141 views

Yesterday, I met with someone launching an exchange for privately held companies. The idea is to have a marketplace that is somewhere between the inefficient one-off negotiation of secondary sales on one end, and going public on the other. Pretty quickly our discussion turned to the disclosure of information about these private... [read more]