Reid Hoffman’s Big Dreams for LinkedIn
Early on a Monday evening in June, Reid Hoffman, the founder and executive chairman of the business-oriented networking site LinkedIn, met Mark Pincus, the founder and chief executive of the gaming site Zynga, for dinner at a casual restaurant in Portola Valley, California, a wealthy residential town at the western edge of Silicon Valley. Breakfasts and dinners are a big part of Hoffman’s life. He recently published two books on how to be successful in business, and is finishing a third, whose working title is “Blitzscaling.”
The New Leader's Playbook - Tips for onboarding/on-boarding
Moving into new roles are crucible events of leadership and some of the toughest challenges people face. Nearly half of new le aders fail in their first 18 months*. Avoid that problem by getting a head start, managing your message, setting direction and building momentum and then following through to sustain momentum and deliver results. Further, know that while people will follow a charismatic leader for a time, they will devote themselves to the cause of a BRAVE leader over time. Those are the underlying premises of this note which itself serves as an overall executive summary of The New Leader’s Playbook articles originally published on Forbes.com since February 2011 and woven through our main book, The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan.
Mind Mapping, Concept Mapping, Argument Mapping: What are the differences and Do they Matter? (Martin Davies)
Concept mapping, mind mapping and argumentmapping: what are the differences and do they matter? Martin Davies Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Stories
Abenteuer unter WasserΠεριπέτεια στο βυθό, μία ιστορία για τα μικρά ψάρια από μικρά παιδιάDafni Papanikolaou The dying art of pottery in Vellore, IndiaPotters in a village in Vellore district of India are bearing the brunt of modernisation and rising raw material costs.Abhaya Joshi Christmas cardsDecember activity - eTwinning project: Digital storytelling Rositsa Mineva December activityproject work; 'Wear the Peace - make a T-shirt'Rositsa Mineva The Best Star Story Ever!(It is truly the best you will ever read!)
150 Buyer Persona Questions You Must Ask -
While my business partner Colin Mathews has been working on building ContentMarketer.io (my latest project), I’ve been hard at work building buzz and recruiting beta users. So far, we’ve had more than 3,500 people request access to the system, but only a few hundred of those really got the product and were successfully able to leverage it. Along the way, I’ve learned – relearned, actually – the importance of understanding your customers on a deep level. One of my favorite tools for understanding my customers is the buyer persona, but what I’ve found is that most people who use this strategy don’t take it far enough. Simply knowing someone’s age, gender and geographic location isn’t enough – you’ve got to go deeper.
Twitter as a tool for learningScoop
Social media often gets a bad rap for being a driving force behind people falling out of touch, neglecting in-person relationships, and reducing productivity for people around the world. Naysayers blame it for shorter attention spans and proliferation of bad grammar, and the most vehement of those naysayers believe that social media has led to privacy being a thing of the past. To be fair, there have been many times where I’ve been trolling my Twitter feed only to be thoroughly horrified by TMI moments and tHingz Speld lIKE THIZ. But if you look past the rough surface Twitter can sometimes present, you find an amazing tool for learning. Last time I looked, there were 141.8 million twitter accounts in the USA alone, and there are 175 million tweets being published every day. Twitter is a global community, which means global perspective and opinions about the topics you care about, and outside perspective is good.
At Greenfield, we’re passionate about associations, and helping them GROW and PROSPER. We believe in a new kind of management approach for not-for-profit groups and communities: one based on using data and technology smartly, so we can help you manage your community in an authentic, engaging way. We offer all the services you would expect from a full-service association management company: the all-important “behind-the-scenes” services such as bookkeeping, online payment processing, website maintenance, data and office management. Plus the equally vital frontline services that keep your members happy, from Board, committee and volunteer support to communications and event execution. But there’s more.
EuroGlobalMap opendata
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The other day my co-founder, Dan Carroll, asked me a number of questions about Venture Capital returns because he was stunned by the valuations of some recently announced deals. After I answered the question, Dan and a few colleagues who were within earshot encouraged me to share my perspective on the subject because it is so poorly understood. Much has been written about the financial performance of the companies backed by venture capitalists, but very little has been written about the economics of the venture capital industry itself. With this post we open the kimono on who funds VCs, what returns they expect and how the best VCs consistently succeed in outperforming those expectations. Who Funds VCs?
Storytelling with Data
Feb. 28, 2013 This is a condensed version of my opening keynote at the Tapestry Conference, which was held yesterday in Nashville’s beautiful Union Station Hotel. I’m writing this from memory so at best it will only be an approximation of what I said. Thanks to all the organizers and attendees for a great event. Update: a video of my talk is now available on the Tapestry blog. Storytelling with data
