VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. Now, I'm more likely to only go to a few and to heavily use Prenetworking – see Secret for Networking at Events – Prenetworking and Pre-network with LinkedIn. Great post by John Shiple. They put on great events. AITP-LA – Monthly events.

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Citrix, RIM, USC.

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. Having produced a variety of events over the years and having been on the boards of both the Technology Council and AITP, I can say that its really hard to attract a critical mass of interesting people. You know what I mean.

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station. So cheer up everybody, this too will pass. Personally: I grew up all over the world because my Dad was in the U.S.

and started thinking about the poor signal to noise ratio in social communications. For those poor souls who grew up in the world of analog, the noise is the snow on a bad TV set, and the buzzing you hear on a remote radio station. and they need to be automatic, easy to use, and tunable. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.

He told me why things didn’t start up immediately after the economy improved: “we already did our networking, and knew everyone.&# Then, post dot-com bust, there was a significant lull for a number of years in terms of networking and events (with not a few organizations disappearing and cutting back). All Rights Reserved

You'll also have access to the list of attendees from all the past events you've signed up for. Mission The mission of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is to encourage the growth and success of technology-based entrepreneurial ventures in Southern California. Leads Club Chapters meet up to 50 weeks a year. Name: Linked !n 91367.

There are so many competing demands on our attention nowadays — from email, to RSS feeds, social networking services like MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn; to SMS, twitter, and other instant messaging services — that I sometimes wonder how anyone can focus and pay serious attention to the task at hand. All Rights Reserved