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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Wikis are used to create collaborative websites on a given subject, maintain corporate intranets, and build simple data bases. Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.”

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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50 Great Ways To Use QR Codes In The College Classroom

YoungUpstarts

Connect on social media. Add a QR code to your contact information, and you can make it easy for people to automatically connect with you on social networks. Send students on an assignment in the library, asking them to go on a treasure hunt for QR codes hidden in the library, following clues through wikis and webpages.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. Real-time conversations and dynamic curation of news stories empowers people to expand their social networks and personal expertise about topics important to them.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

Obviously it is build on a social network “follow people&# model that is asymmetric like Twitter. It also feels very wiki like. So in a way it has built in game mechanics. And they are trying to bake in user adoption into the design of the product. I saw some questions where the tags looked wrong.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. Of course, this draconian measure does not work; employees can blog under another name, or contribute to a wiki pseudonymously. Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn.

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Social shopping

BeyondVC

I must admit that I have seen way too many social networking related plays that want to be the next MySpace of some niche market. In addition, who wants to sign up for multiple social networking platforms like MySpace, Facebook, and niche sites for politics, sports, etc. One of my favorite sites is Cellartracker.