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How Business Can Revitalize a Community After Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

He also trained community members to utilize technology as the area rebuilt. Taking a chance on an agricultural area with few visitors, Saito planned to attract foreign tourists (and their funds), creating tours, collaborating with agricultural partners and eventually joining EO North Japan to expand his skills and network.

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7 Tips for Building a Strong, Vibrant Network

This is going to be BIG.

I was speaking at Internet Week yesterday on networking and so I wanted to gather some of my thoughts. I've been very lucky over the last six years of being involved in the NYC innovation community to meet some fantastic folks. and if you don't understand the value of Twitter, blogging, etc. 1) Be Discerning. 1) Be Discerning.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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8 Proven Ways to Get the Word Out About Your SourceLink Network

Source Link

Affiliates agree that getting the word out about their SourceLink networks to entrepreneurs and business owners is one of their highest priorities. Then, identify our audience – entrepreneurs, current resource partners, potential resource partners or community stakeholders. The basics. Getting the word out – successful strategies.

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Creating a community and brand beyond the product

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Amid political and social unrest in Nicaragua, his team had to navigate around various stressors and find the best way to efficiently move and export coffee to the US, and David overcame these stressors by communicating as much as possible and having faith in his producers.

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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

Five years ago, I started nextNY with the idea that it would be participant driven--that the community would take an active role in managing itself. Monthly small group lunches with leaders in the innovation community--like venture capital firms and successful entrepreneurs. - The details of this program are below.

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How to Build Online Relationships into Meaningful Networks

Both Sides of the Table

Some through blog comments – your place or mine. I was reminded of that when Shafqat Islam weighed in: @msuster @marshallk I built relationships via twitter and blog comments with both of you well before we ever met! I knew Shafqat as a reader on my blog and then I was introduced to him on a trip through New York.