Assembling a WordPress Website My mother Carol Teten and I met Daniella Norwood, the owner of ella j designs, and her husband Brian Bigda at a Lean Startup Machine weekend at which I was a judge. She did a great job redesigning my mother’s site, DancetimePublications.com, so I hired her to do a redesign of Teten.com...
[Continue Reading]Case study: Rebuilding our site
During 2009, we rebuilt from scratch the Teten.com, TheVirtualHandshake.com, and NavonPartners.com sites. Paxcel has done a great job since then maintaining and updating our sites. I wanted to share our process, so asked Mandeep Dang, Project Manager of Paxcel, to write a summary of what we did. As introduction, I am the lead web architect...
[Continue Reading]Summary of Virtual Handshake Conference, 12/1-2/2005
Chairing last week’s Virtual Handshake conference, “Beyond Blogs and Social Networks: How the Virtual Handshake and Consumer Generated Media Will Make or Break Your Business” was an honor and a pleasure. I’d like to thank Stuart Williams, Ali Curi, and Don Friedman of the Strategic Research Institute for making the conference happen. For those of...
[Continue Reading]Update on the Virtual Handshake Book
I’m glad to report that popular reaction to Scott Allen’s and my new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, has been very positive. We have received rave reviews in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, Kirkus Reviews , and many other leading publications. We have also been excerpted in CNN.com and...
[Continue Reading]Last call for online network stories and examples for our book
This week is the last call for success stories about use of social software (blogs, online communities, online networks) for my forthcoming book.We’re down to the wire — our manuscript goes to our publisher next Monday. We’ve got a complete book — but we think a few more real-world examples and stories will help make...
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