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4 ways your computer can help you to protect your time

September 7, 2011

Feel like email and social media are stealing your time? Great news: your communications technologies can give time back, too.  I’m not talking about productivity boosters or clever ways of getting even more work done in even less time. I’m talking about protecting your time from the many incursions (many of them brought to you [...]

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Respecting the billable hour

August 29, 2011

Can I have $500? One of the interesting things about being a consultant or entrepreneur is that people ask you for that kind of money all the time. I was reminded of this recently while catching up with a friend who (unlike me) is still involved in the daily work of running a web company. [...]

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11 social media tools that put entrepreneurs on the right strategic path

May 31, 2011

My latest post for the Harvard Business Review was inspired by a trip I made to Romania earlier this spring. I visited Bucharest and Cluj as part of the School for Startups, a highly successful UK-based entrepreneurship program created by Doug Richard. S4S is running in two different Romanian cities this year, with about a [...]

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2008 Presentation at Oberlin Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship

January 15, 2010

I just discovered that my presentation at Oberlin’s 2008 Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship is on YouTube. I talked about how the lessons of building social networks parallel our experience as entrepreneurs.

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6 essential social media tools for your business or organization

March 30, 2009

If you’re itching to get a handle on this social media thing, and want to open your eyes and ears, there are a few tools we recommend as assets to virtually any organization. I’ve listed these in the order I’d recommend adopting each one.

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4 questions to answer before you get started (or move forward) with social media

March 30, 2009

To make good choices about where to spend your social media dollars, you need to be clear about what you want to get out out of social media, and how you’re going to do it in compelling way. These four questions can help to frame your planning and decision-making.

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Jerry Greenfield on entrepreneurship at Oberlin (live blogging)

February 8, 2008

Continuing my live blogging of Jerry Greenfield on entrepreneurship.

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Thinking about entrepreneurship in Oberlin

February 8, 2008

Reflections on responsible entrepreneurship by Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s fame.

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