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Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media

SoCal CTO

Since I posted on this and since I've been using this approach for quite a while, it has become pretty obvious that part of the reason that old school organizations / event producers are not getting the value of providing this kind of list. The spark for this post is that I'm going to go to Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Saturday.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. This is why I say that Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. So his Twitter handle is @infoarbitrage and his excellent (must read) blog is Information Arbitrage. When I chose a name for my blog, I spent days thinking through what I wanted to represent.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. If you're like many people, you're having more and more public conversations, but there is no tool out there similar to Gmail which a lot of people use to organize their whole life. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Whether they originate in IM, message board trheads, mail lists or blog posts - conversations can be brought together, made re-enrant and be enhanced with media.

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CEO meeting in westside Los Angeles (Santa Monica), March 13th [Updated]

CEO Flow

Eric Golden ( CEO of Equipois ) & I ( Aaron Ross bio ) are organizing a formal, facilitated CEO group here on the westside that will meet monthly. First session: To kick things off and find other founding members, we’re organizing a first working session and get together for interested CEOs on March 13. There’s no cost.