December 2010 Archive

Sam Thacker
Monitoring The Health of Your Business Doesn’t Have to be Difficult
Do you know where your business stands?  In today’s economy many business are struggling with day to day operations.  Sales are down and expenses are up. What is on the ...
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Doctors Are Not the Bad Guys
In my business strategy consulting work, one of the services I provide is to perform operational assessments.  I do a large portion of this work in the healthcare arena, and ...
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Sam Decker on Success in a World of Influencers (INFOGRAPH)
I had the honor of presenting at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Conference and Alumni Reunion along side some smart people. These included Sam Decker, recently of ...
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A Tool Box to Make Your Nonprofit Bigger, Better, Stronger
I wrote a few months ago that we are hard at work at Social Velocity creating tools to help smaller nonprofits do things bigger, better, more effectively and sustainably. And ...
ATI Holiday Happy Hour Caps a Stellar Year
The annual ATI Holiday Happy Hour went off without a hitch. A host of the Incubator’s partners, advisors, member-company and alumni-company executives attended the event, the largest to date. See ...
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Integrated Visibility to Boost Sales
Marketing, advertising, PR, business development, speaking and writing, word-of-mouth, and all the aspects of social media cannot operate in separate silos. The reason that companies invest time and money in these ...
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A New Model For Ending Inner City Poverty: An Interview with Ted Howard
In this month’s Social Velocity interview we are talking with Ted Howard. Ted is the driving force behind an exciting experiment in social innovation going on in Cleveland. Evergreen Cooperatives ...
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The Department of Labor vs. Your Company – Are You Ready to Rumble?
Ladies and Gentlemen!  Your attention, please!  Today’s bout is for the heavy weight title of America’s Successful Enterprise.  In the near corner, wearing red trunks, is the Department ...
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Perfect Storm Causing Oil Prices to Skyrocket
It is a perfect storm. Very cold Winters in the U.S. and Europe putting pressure on heating oil supplies and costs, increased crude oil demand in China, and ...
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Trends to bank on for 2011
This time of year, people have a tendency to focus on the past, spending time looking back at the year that’s coming to a close. But I’ve always ...

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Nell Edgington - Social Velocity A Career Guide For a New Generation of Change Makers
Billy Parish and Dev Aujla’s new book, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money and Community ...
mj-jolda Bagels by the Batch
What’s with all the hype about “Artisan Bagels” by Dunkin' Donuts?  Does anyone even ...
Hall_Martin-150x150 Understanding the deal from the Investor’s perspective
The entrepreneur and the investor both look at the same deal but they come ...
marc nathan Entrepreneur Events: OpenCoffee
Today’s OpenCoffee brought new and familiar faces to CoffeeGroundz.  For the uninitiated, OpenCoffee is ...
Ben Dyer new 1-23-12 It’s Facebook Week…
A few weeks back I wrote a post asking where are the Facebook startup ...
Bryan-Menell Mass Relevance Secures $3.3 Million Series A
Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced that it ...
Thom-Singer-150x150 Networking Shortcuts for Career Success
There are no shortcuts to career success.  It takes time to building long-term and ...
Nell Edgington - Social Velocity Reader Question: How to Find Major Donors
Last month I launched a new regular series on the blog called Reader Questions. ...
Jamie-Brown The Formula for Making Client Relationships Bloom video
  I work with the best clients. That may sound like "spin" coming from a public ...
Thom Singer Does LinkedIn Matter? video
I was recently the speaker at a business event.  After my talk (about the ...