September 26th, 2011
President Barack Obama didn’t break a sweat today as he casually whacked away a series of over-the-plate softballs during a set-piece town hall hosted by the LinkedIn professional networking service. (more)
May 18th, 2011
LinkedIn’s initial public offering priced at $45 a share Wednesday. (more)
September 2nd, 2010
Facebook is in what’s called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That’s when employee growth expands at the greatest rate for a company as it grows from hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands of employees. And with low priced private stock as currency, companies in that position can generally get anyone they want. (more)
July 9th, 2010
Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, Biznet…the list of social and business networking sites go on and on and on. It is hard to imagine how we made it through the day just a few years back without all of these sites to write about our daily comings and goings. How could we have gotten along without knowing that Facebook Friend X just drove across the country with her three cats and two dogs, ate in five diners and had a flat tire in South Dakota? Or that Facebook Friend Y’s little three-year old daughter Cody just threw up on the living room couch while her two-year old brother Jackson pooped on the floor? Life would not be the same without knowing that these events occurred. (more)
March 31st, 2010
Megatrends represent major movements so powerful that the direction of change cannot be stopped. Federal laws can speed up or slow down megatrend forces. But, like dammed rivers megatrends will redirect themselves to achieve the inevitable result. Health care consumerism is such a force. (more)
March 16th, 2010
The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks with phony profiles to gather information and communicate with suspects, according to an internal Justice Department document. (more)
March 2nd, 2010
In 1984, singer-songwriter Tina Turner asked “What’s Love Got to Do with It” in her breakthrough solo album. This year, political observers find themselves asking the same thing about the massive infiltration of social media into political campaigns—“What’s Social Campaigning Got to Do with It?” As we see it, the answer is pretty simple for candidates running for the U.S. Senate: the difference between winning and losing. (more)
