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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Wikipedia was a tremendous invention in the process of knowledge curation, and it was dependent, in turn, on the invention of wikis. If one had the idea of an crowd curated online knowledge system, you could apply the litmus test of internet connection rate to assess when there would be a viable number of contributors and users. .*

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How to Run a Tech Conference in NYC

This is going to be BIG.

The biggest thing that conference organizers don’t seem to understand is the following: New York City is not one tech community. New York is a multi-industry town. The other thing about conferences is that, in general, they aren’t very good—for either the audience or the participants. Mix up the formats.

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20 must-attend tech conferences for female entrepreneurs in 2014

The Next Web

PSFK presents a ‘curated collection of creative thinkers will present new ideas in design, innovation and storytelling to an audience of peers’ in New York City on April 11. I’m very excited about Dent because it’s a small, curated group of people and there is a strong emphasis on relationship-building.

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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

We'll bring together Social Media Editors from some of the largest and most well-respected media outlets, as well as those in more traditional Editorial roles to discuss this new specialty role. Audience heckling and wisdom are welcome throughout. Cathy Erway, Not Eating Out In New York.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. I list many other elite programs for “young leaders” in a talk I gave at NYU on squeezing maximum value out of school.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. I list many other elite programs for “young leaders” in a talk I gave at NYU on squeezing maximum value out of school.

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Sketching A New Mobile Web

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Define audiences and user needs. Next to that, we create a new list of user needs. Worst case scenario, if you are not able to get any, you could draw on your clients’ understanding of the target audience and what they perceive their needs to be. This information should really be drawn from actual user research and interviews.

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