Interrelativity

Category: Events

  • Business Plans and Angel Investors

    I attended two extremely helpful — and mutually reinforcing — entrepreneurial events last Thursday: a free (!) Business Plan Writing workshop offered through the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) and a seminar on "An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Angel Investing: Plan, Present and Negotiate" offered through the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest.  The former provided some…

  • Another Interrelativity Milestone: Helping People Relate at a Holiday Party

    Washburn Communication invited Interrelativity to deploy a proactive display at their holiday party at the Civica Office Commons in Bellevue yesterday.  I live (and work) for these deployments — it was great to have an opportunity to insert this social technology into a fabulous place like Civica and among so many interesting people!  About 25…

  • Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies

    A rather early announcement on the conference website: In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving communication, and enabling coordination among groups of people. Today, such terms as virtual community, blogging, podcasting, and smart…

  • CineVend: An Innovation for Enabling Impulse Buying

    Greg Kriegler, president of CineVend (mantra: "Take the experience home"), gave an impressive 5-Minute Forum presentation yesterday at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network Venture Breakfast.  He gave such a concise description of his business, I’ll simply quote it here: Cinevend develops, owns, operates and sells innovative vending machines with a focus on media vending. The company’s…

  • 180solutions: Working on a 180 Degree Public Relations Turn

    I was eager to hear what the founders of 180solutions had to say at this morning’s Northwest Entrepreneur Network Venture Breakfast.  I haven’t closely followed the controversy surrounding the company, with respect to their software being associated with botnets, worms and other elements of the "dark side" of the net.  Some have raised issues about…

  • NWEN Entrepreneur University 2005: Passion, Endurance and Speed

    Last year, Entrepreneur University 2004 provided my first glimpse into the world of entrepreneuria.  I wasn’t sure I was going to attend again this year, since I know so much more about that world now [I note, somewhat sarcastically].  But I’m glad I went to EU 2005, as I learned many new things, relearned some…

  • Blogosphere vs. LinkedInosphere: Free vs. Restricted Association

    Joi Ito announced that Technorati is now tracking over 20 million blogs (!).  David Sifry recently provided more statistics on the state of the blogosphere, including: it is doubling in size every 5 months it is currently growing by 70K new blogs per day (nearly one per second) between 2% and 8% are fake or…

  • The Fun, Utility and Frustration of Social Networking Systems

    The MIT Enterprise Panel on Social Networking in Bellevue this week was engaging, entertaining, and edifying.  Mike Flynn (publisher, Puget Sound Business Journal) moderated the interview-style panel discussion with Liz Lawley (professor, RIT, and "A-list" blogger), Bill Bryant (CEO, mophone) and Konstantin Quericke (Co-founder and VP Marketing, LinkedIn).  I chose the title for this post…

  • Mistakes vs. Lessons, Masculine vs. Feminine

    One final note about the NPR interview with Paul McCartney and his producer, Nigel Godrich: Godrich mentioned a “mistake” that McCartney made during a cut that was his “favorite moment in the song” (Fine Line)… and he convinced McCartney to incorporate that into the final cut. This called to mind Sheryl Crow‘s song My Favorite…

  • Social Networking in Seattle

    There are two events in the next two weeks that may be of interest to local social networkers.  The  MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest is hosting a dinner panel on "Two Degrees of Separation – How Social Network Technology is Connecting Us for Money, Jobs, and Love" next Wednesday evening, October 19, at the…