I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Undoubtedly, this post will reach far more than that. While I will continue to do presentations, there is a real question of which is the better use of time. Blogging Tactics In the presentation, I spent a fair bit of time discussing some different things you might want to do as a service professional just getting started. I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links.

I'm hoping you can help me figure out who I should be connecting with on this. I find myself speaking at various venues in Los Angeles to tell people (most often service providers) about how I've used social media and particularly my blogs, LinkedIn, twitter and topic hubs as part of my own services business. What do they search for? So this person needs to understand how to quickly move through marketing analysis 101 type things. My perception is that most services professionals like this are not going to want to spend a lot of money on these things,

Attendees: If you have review comments I'd be happy to consider them. Name: XING Community Los Angeles Sites: https://www.xing.com/net/la/ , www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=33803 gid=33803 (main), https://www.xing.com/ Self-description: "This forum is dedicated to all Los Angeles inhabitants, visitors of the area and business minded people from all around the world, who would like to explore business opportunities with L.A. This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational, chamber of commerce, etc. Organizational representatives: please contact me directly for updates, etc.

One interesting project, a bit different, is helping a paper-based collections agency implement a CRM/workflow software package and also select and integrate an eDocument Management Solution including scanning the paper-based backfile and putting in a go-forward process for capturing digital documents. What keeps you up at night? It’s very difficult to communicate the value of my services and it’s even harder to find people/companies looking to outsource their product development to a business guy like myself. Advice for Steve? What networking events in Los Angeles or

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around 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.

Oberthur Technologies, which develops smart identification cards, said late last week that it will move manufacturing from its Los Angeles operations to a facility in Exton, PA. The firm said that manufacturing will cease at its Los Angeles facility by the end of March, and that it will offer some employees relocation. The firm explained that employees who are not willing to relocate Number of employees affected by the move was not disclosed. Oberthur's smart cards are used for the digital TV, mobile, payment, and identification markets. ...Tags:

Woodland Hills-based Gumiyo, which develops mobile marketing technology, said today that it has launched an effort with the Los Angeles Times to market classifieds, online automotive, and real estate advertising via mobile phones. Gumiyo said that it has rolled out a new service for the Los Angeles Times, to allow car shoppers and home buyers to use simple text messages to get information about listings, photos, and video on any handset. The new text messaging service also includes access to CARFAX Vehicle History Reports. Financial impact of the deal

Two, Los Angeles-area projects are the beneficiaries of the Department of Energy's $47M funding effort, announced today, to bolster technologies that can improve energy efficiency in the information technology and communications technology sector. The DOE said it awarded $300,000 to Caltech for an effort to develop power minimization technology for networked data centers, including creation of algorithms to balance services across servers and data centers based on energy use goals; the DOE awarded $584,078 to Federspeil Controls, which is developing dynamic cooling systems which

This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I want to take you through a bit of what brought me here, because I think it will help explain what I mean by visible networking. Networking Events – Questionable Return on Your Time Last week I posted about Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California and received back some interesting comments, some of the best from a LinkedIn Group. Several of the comments there echoed what I've been feeling: Person 1: I have attended a plethora of networking groups and have also found it harder and harder to continue to be motivated to go. Person 2: Very discouraging (few if any happy with their networking efforts) but not unexpected.