My first post ran over at eCo Times.
Philanthropy 2.0 covers the basics of how social media and social purpose have begun to intersect.
What’s the nuance?  Let’s hope there’s more of both (eCo Times posts and Philanthropy 2.0).

Note to entrepreneurs, especially those whose plans I’m currently reviewing for the upcoming Colorado Capital Conference: if you still think that you can support any type of social media on ads, think again.
You can’t scan the RSS feed of a latte-fueled digerati without tripping over tales of low low low advertising CPMs for social networks. […]

With the whole silicon valley echo chamber trying to figure out how to make money from social networks, I had very low expectations about our tiny little blog’s performance on Google search results.
When researching CPM and other detailed info on that very subject, our own blog hit the front page of google, specifically for the […]

Ning, the largest provider of customizable social network software, just raised $60 million, on a pre-money valuation of $500 million, so says Venture Beat. This on top of $44 million on a $170 million valuation back in July, 2007. In a generally depressed venture environment, according to the Industry Standard, this is […]

I was recently interviewed as part of a survey of Denver’s telecom industry. On the table was the question of the future of telecom in Denver and Colorado. Our discussion brought to mind a premise that has stuck with me for almost a decade now.
In his 2001 book, As The Future Catches […]

Bill Gail, a new acquaintance who runs strategy for Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, is also the editor of the Geoscience Remote Sensing Society’s Private Sector Newsletter. He ran a great piece in this month’s issue, which I’ve excerpted here:
** 4. ACCURATE DATA VS USEFUL DATA – why accuracy is not always best
As scientists and […]

Please take a minute to check out eCo Times, a new blog launching today (on Earth Day) that supports a great company eConscious Market. The blog focuses on helping readers learn how to take action in pursuit of a more sustainable life.
I’m one of the blog authors, and my first (weekly) piece runs next […]

Back in February, I wrote about how Microsoft had lanched Channel9, an honest and open discussion with their developer community, a strategy the heady authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto introduced over a decade ago.
They are now joined by Starbucks and Dell, so says MSNBC.
What’s the nuance? First off, it’s interesting to note that the service […]

The problem is exemplified in this post from Kevin Jones, over at Xigi:
The worst news from the Skoll World Forum was from another investor. They were trying to co-invest with a venture philanthropy fund, but found two significant barriers; one that fund does not co-invest, nor release its due diligence reports to even other like-minded […]

The launch of CERN’s Large Hadron Supercollider (wikipedia, NYT) has a strange bedfellow, which has been in development almost as long. A “new” internet, capable of handling the enormous amount of data that the Supercollider produces, has been on everyone’s background radar for some time.

Here’s the recent engadget piece for those with limited attention […]