May 2011 Archive

Bryan-Menell
MoodFish Launches 2.0
Austin-based MoodFish has announced version 2.0 of their website and services. MoodFish is the place where you can go to search on local events and experiences that ...
The Balance of Heart and Head
            In the work of social change there is a constant and necessary tension between heart–the human emotions of love, empathy, anger that force us to work for social change, and ...
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Telling, Gelling, and Selling: Three Tips To More Business
Sales has changed.  It used to be that if a salesperson got a meeting with a prospect they were in control of the flow of information.  Their encounter was often ...
When Fundraising Goes Right, Really Right
Earlier this week I wrote about a national nonprofit that continues to send me fundraising appeals, even though I have been lapsed for 11 years. A reader of the post ...
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Social Media and Employees: Keeping Control, Preventing Disasters
In our previous post we saw how employees’ misuse of social media can have devastating consequences for employers.  Like it or not, though, social media isn’t going away, and employees ...
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Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you?
  A daily side-effect of my moderate fame is a barrage of “special” offers, guest-post requests, pleas for attention, and modest, tasteful bribery.   It’s not bad; most are sincere, and even those ...
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Affinegy in 7.6 Million Wireless Homes
Affinegy, provider of intelligent home networking software solutions, today announced that its Home Portal software is helping over 7.6 million consumers manage their wireless ...
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WantAndFound.com Sold to Ambistar
Ambistar Ventures today announced the acquisition of WantandFound.com LLC, the Austin based social shopping and mobile advertising company. Under the terms of the transaction, ...
Bryan-Menell
Versata Awarded $345 Million From SAP America
Austin-based Versata Software continues to hit the ball out of the park every time they’re at bat. Watching this company is like a master’s class in how to be ...
How Are This Year’s High School Grads Doing in the Job Market?
In the next few weeks millions of students will graduate from high schools and colleges to find pretty bleak job opportunities. 2011 may be a bit better ...

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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 ...