Virtual Assistant to Help Build Your Network

A year ago, I wrote up the basic tenants of ninenetworking in a pdf to share with friends.  About six months ago, a friend suggested I put it up online.  The only challenges was I didn’t have any experience building web pages.
By using outsourced resources on odesk/Elance, I built this site in under a week.  [...]

Anonymously and Selectively Follow

I continue to find new things out about Gist and one thing I love is the ability to easily follow people on Twitter and Facebook both anonymously and selectively.  While Facebook and Twitter allow you to stop following people, I like how easy Gist’s UI is and I love the fact that I can follow [...]

How to Find Your Focus and Passion

I enjoy meeting with people and in these economic times, have found myself counseling a lot of people about their next career choices.   I have previously posted on the importance of focus but a question I often spend a lot of time talking about is how to find your focus and passion in the first [...]

Creating New Data on Connections

My previous post about the people that aren’t on LinkedIn, a discussion with a VC in this space, and the Economist’s recent survey on data got me thinking about the great data that is waiting to be created around connections.    Today, social networks track who you are connected to but don’t evaluate how those connections [...]