February 2012
4 posts
The Second Screen
Yesterday I attended a panel at #smwnyc called “The Interplay of Sports, Business, and Social Media.” The panel was great and highlighted how are the sports business is of the need to interact with fans via social media. One thing that really stuck out to me was how teams are using various analytics tools (e.g. SproutSocial) to determine WHICH fans to engage more directly, i.e the...
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Find a Co-Founder
One of my main concerns with respect to networking and networking events is related to that famous Groucho Marx quotation:
I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member
Specifically, I find myself interested in “Find A Co-Founder” events, but am always wondering — won’t the best people have found their co-founders more organically? I know that...
Mitt Romney's Robotic Problem →
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On Facebook's New Identity
@FredWilson wrote an interesting piece this morning about dispersion in social media. I don’t want to over-summarize, so please go read his article, but he basically says that social media will not have a “winner-takes-all” outcome, but more likely a “best-tool-for-each-particular-job” outcome. In other words you will use GetGlue as your...
January 2012
3 posts
Voter Profiling
Great article on detailed voter profile selling by @sissenberg:
http://slate.me/wFo9lq
Regarding the Middle Class Generation Problem
There has been a good deal of justified noise surrounding the New York Times’ great feature on How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (which case is really used as a metaphor for how the U.S. is losing out on next generation manufacturing jobs). It’s a long, really great piece and well-worth the read. You should read it. I won’t do it justice by summarizing it quickly, but I...
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