Archive for April, 2009
10 seconds to stand out
Here’s a quick tip if you use LinkedIn. When you invite someone to join your network, personalize the invitation. How tired do you get of seeing: David, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. – Some Contact There’s nothing wrong with accepting the default message and it’s certainly a benefit of [...]
3 from the conference
The trade association for my industry is the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA). Each year they hold two major events; a Fall training conference, and a Spring conference more focused on the business of incubation. Of all the conferences I’ve attended in my career, these NBIA conferences are the best run and most valuable of [...]
Thinking through commitment
I’m on the Board of the regional chapter of an international non-profit group. The group is SIM (Society for Information Management), a networking and thought leadership organization for technology leaders. This is the time of year where we start putting together the ballot for next year’s officers. As part of that process our Board President [...]
The Quarter in Review – 2009 Q1
Many of the blogs I read have quarterly, or even monthly recaps. Some of these blogs are personal some are professional, and the information in their recap generally reflects their orientation. Personal blogs tend to focus on their best content, what keywords seem most relevant in their space, comments or discussions of interest, etc. The professional blogs [...]
Do you have a bad connection?
I hosted a software entrepreneur this morning. He had contacted me requesting an opportunity to demo his product to a small group of small and medium-sized businesses. He showed up an hour early to make sure he had plenty of time to work through any IT glitches that might show up. Sure enough, after everything [...]
Shameless self-promotion
As in, I’m about to shamelessly self-promote myself. Well, not actually myself so much as my blog. A few posts back, I wrote about a new feature I had added to the blog, the “Great Posts from Around the Web” widget. Using free ranking services available from Postrank, I built an automatically updating list of [...]
