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The video, posted this week, features the entire staff of St Vincent’s Medical Center in Portland, Oregon donning pink gloves and dancing for Breast Cancer Awareness. As the grand-daughter of a Breast Cancer survivor, I thought the video was touching. - dougpollei

Meet with local people to discuss and show-and-tell new technology. Looking for individuals interested in pursuing Cloud computing, hosted solutions and dynamic grid based computing. Vendors and End users welcome. Specifically looking to focus on how people in the commercial sector are looking to use cloud based services - dougpollei

Love graphics, love creating, love sharing. Graduated from BA Graphic Media Communication, here i loved illustration and was fascinated by concrete poetry - dougpollei

For those of you who are not familiar with Naked Pizza it’s an all natural pizza place in New Orleans that actually makes pizza that’s good for you. What’s interesting is that Naked Pizza has been using social media tools such as twitter and facebook to reach out to customers and to generate a positive ROI from their efforts (yes dollars). - dougpollei

451 CloudScape is an interdisciplinary research and advisory program from the 451 Group and Tier1 Research, providing detailed insight, advice and analysis targeting cloud practitioners. - dougpollei

Via Patrick Dubois comes two examples. The first, above, is a graphic timeline with a couple of charts. A stickler for infographics would point out that the heights of the charts don't really correspond to any data--surely there's a way to fudge that with an axis, and make them into real graphs (this also illustrates the pitfalls of graphing your resume for a bunch of design geeks--the design better be tight). But nonetheless, it all works well enough - dougpollei

AKR Interactive is a full service internet application, software and multimedia development company, with expertise in social media, user experience, exhibit installation, marketing, content development, business process, branding, and graphic design. Our principals have a combined experience of over 30 years in delivering award winning solutions for business, non-profit, artistic and civil society institutions. - dougpollei

iLoop Mobile is the leader in mobile technology and services that make mobile marketing and mobile content delivery fast, easy and compelling. - dougpollei

In case you missed it, last year was the inaugural Glue conference (a.k.a., “gluecon”). We set out to explore the set of issues that exist once you assume that the move to “the cloud” has occurred. What we found is that, even though we thought we had started to dig in, we hadn’t even scratched the surface. So, even though gluecon attendees left happy, they still left with a sense of “clamoring for more” - more developers, more protocols, more in-depth explorations of APIs, more technically advanced content, more more and more. - dougpollei

When Josh Kopelman and I first spoke about me joining First Round Capital, we talked a lot about alignment of interests—what First Round Capital was interested in with regards to investing in New York City, and also what my interests were with respect to my own career. - dougpollei

Mahesh will be talking on marketing in real-time, using Twitter and other tools. At Pinstorm, we believe marketers today have no option but to use advanced technology and old-fashioned creative thinking to manage brand perceptions on a minute-to-minute basis. - dougpollei

# Step 1: I looked at my bigger goals for the remainder of 2009, and what I plan to do for the first half of 2010. # Step 2: I wrote down three things to accomplish today that would move those goals forward, and I kept them in front of me ALL DAY. I took breaks, but I never deviated from the goals in front of me. # Step 3: I added in two goals that were related to current events, but not tied to my bigger goals, and left those for "if I have time." # Step 4: I killed every distraction that wasn't these goals, including closing my email client, shutting off Twitter, and at a few points, even disconnecting from the internet entirely. # Step 5: I reviewed my progress on the day. From there, I re-reviewed my next two months and the first half of 2010, and then set out goals for the next few days. - dougpollei

Google has achieved so much, it's hard to imagine they would need advice from anyone. But, just as star athletes turn to coaches to help them stay at the top of their game, Google asked David to speak about what he knows best: GTD. - dougpollei

"The authors pinpoint two kinds of risks: subways and coconuts. You can do research and be relatively sure that the subway will be predictable most of the time. On the other hand, you know that coconuts fall from trees, but you can’t predict when they will fall or where they will land. So, you can plan for the subways, but it is difficult to plan for the coconuts." - dougpollei

Steve Jurvetson, partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers perspective on the market opportunities in innovation and technology. Topics discussed include the necessity for utter market disruption, interdisciplinary solutions, and advice for those interested in working in the venture capital arena. - dougpollei

Directory Manager 1.0 is the first module in SherpaTools for Google Apps. Providing a familiar interface, it allows administrators to easily manage User Profiles and Shared Contacts in the Google Apps directory. You can now easily manage important contact fields like phone number, job titles, birthdays and a host of other information. Directory Manager also allows you to import and export data in bulk from a Google Docs spreadsheet. - dougpollei

In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive — at least, that's my guess. What are the near-term trends we could see as soon as next year? In no particular order: - dougpollei

Bloxx, based in the UK, has released some research finding that 90% of IT Managers surveyed believe access to social networking site should be banned or restricted. 90%. That's a lot. The managers surveyed came from across the UK public sector as well as private organizations. - dougpollei

Deloitte LLP’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice has recently released the results of the 2009 Tribalization of Business Study, which evaluates the perceived potential of online communities* and identifies how enterprises believe they may better leverage them. Conducted in conjunction with Beeline Labs and the Society for New Communications Research, this second edition of the Tribalization of Business Study measured the responses of more than 400 companies including Fortune 100 organizations which have created and maintain online communities today. - dougpollei

Reach a new level of mobile collaboration with the Push Mobile Media platform. Create and distribute interactive SMS campaigns and enterprise content to any mobile device. Then gather and analyze mobile workforce feedback in real time with our robust mobiShout campaign - dougpollei

Enabling Mobile Operators, Device Makers and Retailers, to quickly and cost effectively deliver a new generation of customized consumer services on open mobile phone platforms. - dougpollei

CMOs met in DC last night and had a engaged roundtable discussion on building Social Sales Networks. Scott Gillum from MarketBridge led the roundtable and shared his insights on the following - As a sales progresses through its four stages, the sales team uses different kinds of social networks, and their job gradually shifts from gathering information to coordinating people's actions. CMO Club Social Sales Networks Roundtable Presentation (Copy of Scott's presentation ( excellent framework for CMOs to think about when developing their social media strategies )). - dougpollei

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PhotoSketch is an “Internet Image Montage” project from five Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore. The basic premise, which they present in the form of a research paper [pdf], - dougpollei

Walmart (32) may be beating Target handily in the market, but Target (11) beat its rival 82.8% to 59.3% in percentage of positive commentary, despite Walmart's 141,000 to 107,000 edge in conversation volume. - dougpollei

The main thing Mayo employees need to remember about blogs and social networking sites is that the same basic policies apply in these spaces as in other areas of their lives. The purpose of these guidelines is to help employees understand how Mayo policies apply to these newer technologies for communication, so you can participate with confidence not only on this blog, but in other social media platforms. - dougpollei

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Founded over a decade ago, Gunderson Dettmer has become the nation’s leading business law firm for entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies and venture capitalists. Building upon the idea that “best of breed” wins, we are a different sort of law firm—a business law firm consisting solely of business lawyers. The primary focus of the firm is to assist our clients in solving business problems, executing business strategies and achieving critical business objectives. - dougpollei

These days in the halls of IT departments around the world there is a growing realization that the next wave of outsourcing, things like cloud computing and crowdsourcing, are going to require responses that will forever change the trajectory of their current relationship with the business, or finally cause them to be relegated as a primarily administrative, keep-the-lights-on function. - dougpollei