By Christopher Rollyson Summary
MITEF’s Chicago chapter fielded a solid panel of economic experts to share their guidance for what 2009 would hold for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. Moderated by John Connolly, Associate Director of Program Development at the CME Group, the panel included Bryce Bulman, SVP at Allianz Global Investors Distributors, Adolfo Laurenti, Senior Economist at Mesirow and William Testa, VP and Director Regional Economic Research at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. Read on for my live microblogging of the event on the iPhone.
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By Christopher Rollyson  As I wrote earlier today, LinkedIn is an excellent venue to discovering, diligencing and developing cross-border deals because it significantly reduces the transaction costs of these processes. Therefore, I am pleased to announce my first presentation that will address using LinkedIn and other Web 2.0 tools to discover, build and manage global business relationships. I will give a presentation hosted by the Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce in Chicago on 18 February 2009. Non-members can register, so make sure to consider it if you are downtown. Read on for a preview.
By Christopher Rollyson  While it is a truism that Web 2.0 is inherently global, most business leaders do not yet appreciate the degree to which global business will be transformed. LinkedIn can significantly change the economics of cross-border relationships because it is primarily focused on business relationships, and its members are globally minded executives. Here I will present a brief executive summary of LinkedIn’s impact on international business development as well as opportunities and threats for professionals. Continue reading How LinkedIn Changes the Economics of Cross-border Relationships
By Christopher Rollyson Please Pardon the Dust and Stray Nails
The Global Human Capital Journal has just migrated from the open source Serendipity CMS to WordPress and into a new hosting space. Unfortunately, we’ve experienced a few broken toes, bruised fingers and tooo much caffeine during the process, but we’re getting there! Read on for a blow-by-blow account on the migration thus far and where we’re going.
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By Christopher Rollyson This week I will speak at the Illinois Technology Association at TechNexus downtown about how marketing executives are using Twitter to enhance their relationships with stakeholders, and the Executive’s Guide to LinkedIn will complete its current seminar cycle. Next week, I will kick off a private webinar series for a global travel group. Read on for more on these events.
By Christopher Rollyson The Social Networking Conference has become increasing populated with enterprise presenters and attendees over the last year, so Marc Lesnick and I decided to offer this workshop to get to the heart of the matter: how to create a repeatable process for designing and managing successful enterprise social networking initiatives. I put this together using key pieces of the Social Network Roadmap that I use to advise clients. Since January 21was this workshop’s maiden voyage, I’ll share my reactions and insights as well as give you an overview of what we did in three hours. I structured the workshop in three fifty-minute sessions.
By Christopher Rollyson Twitter and Facebook Top of Mind | #snc2009 | Awaiting Discovery: The Nascent Power of Weak Ties and Small Touches
 What a difference a year makes! The Social Networking Conference debuted several years ago as a forum for social networking sites and vendors, with enterprise clients few and far between. Miami 2009 took place January 22-23, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and it was a veritable enterprise 2.0 conference. Many of the presenters hailed from enterprise-focused high technology vendors, but they spoke as social networking practitioners. The good practices they shared reflected the maturation of social networks. Don’t get me wrong, we are still in early days, but it was obvious to see that social networks would be completely mainstream this year. Enterprise-focused vendors provided additional evidence by explaining some of the new social network features in their offerings.
Social Networking Watch’s Mark Brooks gave an overview of key trends, while jetBlue’s Morgan Johnston and IBM’s Adam Christensen drove home the message that companies could be rewarded for trusting their customers in social networks. Ford’s Scott Monty, Sun’s Lou Ordorica and Microsoft’s Marty Collins shared how they were using social networking to evolve their companies by opening up to customers and adopting P2P, two-way communications.Yammer’s David Schwartz and Faceforce’s Clara Shih presented two tech innovators that promised significant disruptive potential. SAP’s Steve Mann, Opera’s Thomas Ford and Dow Jones’ Tom Aley all shared fascinating social networking elements of their portfolios, which were all enterprise-focused. Awareness Networks’ John Bruce was on hand to share good practices and pitfalls. I presented the only industry-focused preso, focused on how social networks were beginning to disrupt the U.S. healthcare industry. I also gave the pre-conference workshop, Successful Social Networking Projects in the Enterprise.
Between my workshop and conference track, I scribbled enough notes to share the high points of many of the tracks, which I’ll summarize before offering Analysis and Conclusions. The reportage follows this convention: the summaries are from my notes of speakers’ remarks, and [when a sentence is bracketed], it is a comment. Click on logos for abstracts of the tracks.
By Christopher Rollyson On January 21, I will debut a new workshop at the Social Networking Conference, “Successful Social Networking Projects in the Enterprise.” It will enable participants to approach enterprise social networks from a much more strategic viewpoint than most do now. They will learn to develop a rich understanding of the Web 2.0 ecosystem, how to determine stakesholders’ needs and how to engage them. This will prepare them to design within the ecosystem. Here I’ll share a few thoughts about how I created the workshop.
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By Christopher Rollyson LinkedIn Paid Memberships: At Which Level to Subscribe?
 I just answered a question this morning in a private CMO forum of which I’m a member. One of my colleagues wanted to know what level of LinkedIn membership would be most effective for a job search. Since I haven’t addressed this here on the Executive’s Guide to LinkedIn blog, here we go with the LinkedIn Membership Selection Guide. Continue reading Quick LinkedIn Membership Selection Guide
By Christopher Rollyson Take advantage of breaking Web 2.0 trends to manage risk and enhance rewards in 2009
 2008 was a momentous year punctuated by rising economic uncertainty, Web 2.0 innovation in politics and increasing opportunity to create uncommon advantage in many industries. How much can volatility increase? We are on a merry-go-round that’s accelerating; it’s giddy and scary, depending on one’s point of view.
To celebrate and help you to seize the day, I have spent the past week on three articles that represent some of my most important writing of the year:
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