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    Category: Online Social Networking

    Speaking at ExecuNet

    4 March, 2006 (08:59) | Online Social Networking | By: Scott Burkett

    blogcap.jpgI will be delivering a presentation entitled “Business Blogging: Leveraging Web 2.0 to Extend Your Personal Brand” at the March 9th ExecuNet Senior Management Roundtable. I will provide an overview of business blogging, and share you some solid strategies for taking advantage of blogging to further build your executive brand.

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    Speaking at the Kettering Executive Network

    12 February, 2006 (20:42) | Business Networking, Corporate Blogging, Online Social Networking | By: Scott Burkett

    For those of you who are members of The Kettering Executive Network (an executive networking group here in Atlanta), I will be delivering a presentation entitled “Business Blogging: Leveraging Web 2.0 to Extend Your Personal Brand”.

    I will provide an overview of business blogging, and share you some solid strategies for taking advantage of blogging to further build your executive brand.

    I will be presenting on Friday, February 17th, 2006, at 10:00am. The meeting will be held in Suite 700 of the Seibel Systems building at 1 Glenlake Parkway.

    If you are not a member of Kettering, but would like to have the presentation delivered for your organization, by all means, let me know.

    I look forward to seeing you all there!

    Cheers.

    MYSC: LinkedIn Survey

    31 January, 2006 (06:00) | Online Social Networking | By: Scott Burkett


    As many of you know, I am busy working on a book called Managing Your Social Capital: Leveraging LinkedIn to Expand Your Business Horizons. Specifically, the book focuses on how companies can leverage LinkedIn to get a competitive advantage. I am seeking some additional notes, case studies, and stories of LinkedIn success and failures.

    As part of my research, I’d like to invite everyone to participate in a short online survey. Come on in and get your 15 minutes of fame! :)

    Cheers.

    Announcing: Managing Your Social Capital

    19 December, 2005 (15:43) | Business Networking, Online Social Networking | By: Scott Burkett


    Recently, I put together a Powerpoint presentation on online social networking, specifically covering LinkedIn, and how companies can leverage it to get a competitive advantage. I originally intended to simply deliver the presentation to various business networking groups around town. A dozen slides became two dozen slides, which became fifty slides, which became 66 slides. Based on the insistence of a few colleagues, I decided to turn the presentation into a book.

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