A year ago around this time, I found myself taking a big risk by going to my first conference. I had just moved to San Francisco and began networking with people in the technology and Internet industry, but I found out that this one conference would be good because I’d be able to network with [...]

I first heard about Tony Hsieh while at last year’s South by Southwest conference. It was really quite spectacular to hear about a company’s culture and how centered it was around servicing customers. Actually, it wasn’t about the customers. It was about the people. These didn’t have to be people who were customers, but just [...]

This is a cross-blog post from Network Solution’s Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on July 16, 2009.
A while ago, an amazing “movement” was stated by Peter Shankman called Help A Reporter Out. The group’s goal was set to accomplish one mission: to connect reporters with sources. Thanks to [...]

I’m going to be honest – I got the idea for this blog post from a tweet that I saw from Christopher Peri, creator of the Twitter application TwittFilter. It was a simple tweet: “Twitter is the new business card” and that struck a chord with me immediately.
Having gone to numerous events and conferences related [...]