Tue.May 24, 2011

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[Review] Enterprise Social Technology

YoungUpstarts

As someone who is always interested at how social technologies can be harnessed for business and enterprise use, I can’t recommend Scott Klososky’s new book “ Enterprise Social Technology: Helping Organizations Harness the Power of Social Media, Social Networking, Social Relevance &# quite enough. Unlike many of books out there, this book doesn’t attempt to preach and tout the wonderful goodness of social technologies and how they can help companies revolutionize they app

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Two innovation conversations

deal architect

Two great interviewers/moderators – Dennis Howlett and David Vellante - bring out plenty of banter in these interviews about innovation and where it is coming from. Both were conducted at the SAP event, Sapphire last week but the conversations are.

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Giving Back While Using Email With GiveBackMail

YoungUpstarts

We’ve seen how we can make a socially responsible enterprise out of a web hosting business , but what about email? The latest free email service to be launched, GiveBackMail ( www.GiveBackMail.com ), looks to do the same by donating to causes you care about every time you use email. Launched earlier this week, the free service allows you to keep your current email address and still take advantage of features including sharing large files – up to 100MB, managing multiple accounts, previewin

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Making More Women Entrepreneurs' Stories Heard

ReadWriteStart

Never underestimate the power of having a good story - whether it's to pitch potential investors or customers or whether it's to share with other entrepreneurs. The importance of storytelling for entrepreneurs is the foundation for FounderLY , a project that I profiled back in April when it launched its platform. FounderLY collects video interviews with entrepreneurs as part of a media project to document their stories.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Foundry Group Jobs Page

Feld Thoughts

Many of our Foundry Group portfolio companies are growing rapidly. As a result, we just put up a new page on the Foundry Group website listing all of the jobs in Foundry Group portfolio companies that we are aware of. We also have a new Foundry Group Jobs twitter feed to follow – it’ll tweet out a link whenever a new job is posted. This page is built on top of Indeed , in our opinion the best job search engine.

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Business School Rankings – Punish Entrepreneurial Schools

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I don’t pay any attention to business school rankings. It’s one of those vague bits I gloss over because I’m not shopping for a school. I’ve always assumed that the rankings were some kind of measure that indicated “success&#. Not really! Only one kind of success is measured. I’ve recently discovered that the rankings are [.].

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MIT Student Entrepreneur Makes Climate Controlled Jacket

Campus Entrepreneurship

Cool article about an interesting innovation that an Indian student at MIT, Kranthi Vistakula dreamed up and executed on it. Love it. From the Economist Magazine : His first approach was to build a jacket with built-in heating and cooling systems. Packed with motorised fans, heating pipes and electric wiring, the resulting apparel was bulky and weighed 7 kilograms.

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Governments or Social Networks?

Venture Chronicles

French President kicked off the gathering in Paris, hailing the assembled players as the leaders of the “Internet revolution&# , but warning that with their power comes great responsibility. He hailed the role of the Internet in helping protestors organise recent Arab uprisings such as the revolutions in Tunisia and but insisted it must be underpinned by “values&# and “rules.&#.

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind

Jeff Hilimire

This past week I was at a board meeting for the Children’s Museum of Atlanta, Imagine IT. Amazing museum, if you haven’t taken your kids there, consider this my official recommendation! During the board meeting the executive director of the museum shared this quote: A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery (French Aviator, Writer).

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A Detailed Sample Restaurant Sales Forecast

Up and Running

Tweet The Palo Alto Software team is at the National Restaurant Association Conference this week and Bplans is featuring articles and resources for restaurant owners. (Tim’s note: this is an excerpt from The Plan As You Go Business Plan , posted here with permission of Entrepreneur Press, the publisher. It’s here today because we are focusing on the restaurant business this week in honor of the National Restaurant Association trade show in Chicago).

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Startups Needed For Cloud Computing Gray Areas

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing is still all the rage in the business world these days. Yet I find that most business people don’t understand and fully trust it, and I defy even the technologists to define it in ten words or less for business people. Many say it’s just marketing hype applied to old principles that have been around for a long time. A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to comput

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: 30GO30

crowdSPRING Blog

I have the pleasure of moving on June 1st. I also happen to be a horrible procrastinator. Granted, I always manage to pull things off and have them done well, but there have been a few occasions I’ve wondered why I do this to myself. Such is the case with my packing situation. Or, rather, lack of packing situation. Recognizing how common this kind of pattern is, Dr.