Social networking targets the enterprise
InfoWorld: Social networking targets the enterprise: December 15, 2003: By Ephraim Schwartz: Applications
Law firm Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn used Interface Software’s InterAction suite to land lucrative accounts, according to Cynthia Reaves, partner at the firm.
“We use InterAction to strategize about how to approach a client and develop teams of people to approach a potential [...]
Social networking: old school
Over at VentureBlog is this great post about Cravath, social networking, and the value of maintaining strong corporate cultures:
Old School Social Networking
As I type this, I am sitting in the Newark airport watching the snow fall and foolishly pretending that I will get on a plane this evening. It is just not going to happen. [...]
Social networking idea
Here’s a suggestion for the various social networking sites out there: give me a way to introduce someone to someone else. Here’s the idea: I have two people in my network. Today, any of the social networking sites waits until a user initiates a request; that request comes to me, then I decide to approve [...]
Investors Business Daily on Social Networking
Today’s issue of Investors Business Daily “picks up on”:http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech.asp?v=11/18 the social networking story, and — surprise, surprise — includes my company Interface Software in the mix.
We’re a different animal in the social networking space — we’re not a start-up raising lots of cash, but a long-term entity that’s over $20m in revenues with hundreds of [...]
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
I’m writing an article about social networking and the crop of sites that are gaining some attention lately (”Spoke”:http://www.spoke.com/, “LinkedIn”:http://www.linkedin.com/, “Ryze”:http://www.ryze.com/, “Tribe”:http://www.tribe.net/, and “ZeroDegrees”:http://www.zerodegrees.com/). As a teaser, I wanted to write about the original “Oracle of Bacon”:http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/index.html developed by a couple of grad students at UVa.
Here’s the shocking thing: Kevin Bacon isn’t even among the [...]
Knowing how to find the people you need
How often do you get a phone call asking you to spend a weekend at the headquarters of a U.S. Presidential candidate? If you’re like me, it’s not exactly a daily occurrence. So when the Dean campaign called a month ago and asked if I had a few free days to spare, I eagerly booked [...]
Social networking
I’ve been a Ryze user for a little over a year (my Ryze page is “here”:http://www.ryze.com/go/rklau). In that time, I’ve rekindled a couple of friendships (one was more than 10 years old) and cemented several friendships with people I’ve met online.
But there’s been a lot of press attention focused on the social networking phenomenon — [...]
Six Degrees of … Warren Buffett?
Four Handshakes. America’s Corporate Boards are Separated by Just Four Handshakes, U-M Study Shows
Much like the Hollywood association game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, corporate America is an interlocking network of company board directorships separated by just a few handshakes, say researchers at the University of Michigan Business School. In a study of the connectedness of nearly 7,700 board directors [...]
Ross Mayfield on Social Networking
From Ross Mayfield’s blog:
Mapping Trust and Other Social Networks.
The seminal article I mentioned in my post on Trust Networks that lays out 3 networks (Trust, Advice, Communication) is Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart by David Krackhardt and Jeffery Hanson, HBR 1993.
Karen Stephenson lays out 6 networks which overlap with the original 3. Her Work Network and [...]
Trying out Ryze
I’d seen Phil’s endorsements of Ryze, but it was Matt Mower’s e-mail this morning urging me to take a look that tipped the balance.
For those that don’t know, Ryze is a business networking web site. The goal is to make it simple for people with common interests to find each other. There’s a geographic element [...]
