From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Odd Couple: Trust and Social Media.

by Gil Yehuda on October 30, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


Last week I attended a fascinating event in Manhattan called “The Trust Summit Breakfast”.  It featured two pairs of authors who collaborated on two business books on the topic of Trust.  Specifically: Charles H Green and David Maister, co-authors of The Trusted Advisor (with Rob Galford). And Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, co-authors of Trust Agents.  Both are considered must-read books.  I [...]

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EchoSign of the times.

by Gil Yehuda on October 26, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jason Lemkin, the very interesting CEO of an equally interesting company called EchoSign.  At first glance EchoSign appears to be a boring service.  But I quickly realized there is much more to this than first meets the eye. EchoSign allows you to process electronic signatures on electronic documents.  Boring [...]

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Leveraging Social Networking During Your Job Search.

by Gil Yehuda on October 23, 2009

in Personal Branding


This week Dan Spira and I presented at a networking workshop sponsored by Keystone Partners.  Dan blogged about the event — so let me point you to his words.  I’ll add a few thoughts of my own to his message. Many of the people we addressed described themselves as the kind of people who are usually late [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT in Frankfurt, Germany.

by Gil Yehuda on October 19, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


I’m looking forward to the E2.0 SUMMIT in Frankfurt, Germany this year. If you are planning to attend, please let me know so that we can meet and greet.  Enclosed below is the conference program.  I’m joined by some of people I admire most in the field, and I’m excited to see what the marketplace looks like from [...]

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CCText catches my attention.

by Gil Yehuda on October 12, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


I recently had a briefing by CCtext.net — a very new entry into the wiki marketplace from China.  I was a little bit conflicted about this product at first.  There are over 100 wiki servers in the marketplace, and I wondered why would the market need another option?  Or more specifically, what would a new wiki [...]

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Atlassian is helping out small businesses and charity.

by Gil Yehuda on October 7, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


Atlassian ran a cool limited-time “stimulus program” promotion a couple of months ago where they offered a $5 license (limited to 5 users) with the proceeds going to Room to Read, a charity dedicated to providing educational opportunities to children in developing nations.   The idea was to give back and do good at a time [...]

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