Jessica Jackley co-founder of Kiva.org speaks at http://bit.ly/postw10 today. Former temp at the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford GSB went Africa to help document effects of micro grants. She started Kiva.org with her husband to do what they could in micro-finance. She then started her MBA at Stanford in 2005 and during that ...
[by Ian Tien, cross posted on WorkPlayLove.com and PowerOfSocialTechnologies.com] To attend the Sundance Film Festival, I had to unfortunately miss @aaker’s Power of Social Technologies class. Transforming truancy into opportunity, I got to write up a special assignment: Reflect on the use of social media channels applied to a real world experience—specifically, select a number ...
@JulioV @esbaker @wync @kabbenbock @Jeff @coveroo @plancast hold Virality Bootcamp at Stanford. The talks helped the teams running social media marketing projects get a sense of frameworks and strategies for launching their own viral campaigns. My personal takeaways Viral Factor = X * Y * Z (if 1 > then it’s viral) X – Conversion ...
Have something to sell on Amazon? You can track conversion rates from your Tweets. Here’s how: Step 1: Sign up for Amazon Affiliate program. Now when you hit an Amazon page logged in, you’ll see a toolbar to create special links to products. Step 2: Create an Amazon affiliate link to your book If people ...
@SarahM, co-author of the http://bit.ly/TheTwitterBook (with @TimOReilly), speaks at http://bit.ly/postw10 on Harnessing Twitter. This talk is part of a speaker series for GSBGEN 358 Power of Social Technologies. My takeaways: Directories Listorious – http://listorious.com/ We Follow – http://wefollow.com/ Google – http://google.com Search http://search.twitter.com – find tweets on keywords http://search.twitter.com/advanced – refine your searches How to ...
Last December, 4 intrepid Stanford MBA students led a global study trip across Paris and Beirut. Their theme focused on learning about the special relationship between France and Lebanon—symbolizing one of the closest ties between a Western and Middle Eastern country in the world. Luckily, I found a spot on their trip, which is now ...
Avinash Kaushik began blogging on web analytics in 2006. Wiley called him to turn it into a book, Web Analytics an Hour a Day. He wrote it in 7 weekends working 7am to 9pm. Royalties from the project, ~$90K after 2 years, go to his favorite charities. His second book, Web Analytics 2.0, donated $16K ...
A few friends missed the first lecture of ACCT 331: Global Financial Reporting and asked for my notes. I’ve had them in my bag for a week, but keep missing the opportunity to pass them along. So I thought I’d write them up here (below). Also, writing this out also helps me crystallize to myself ...
Next week, 110+ Stanford MBA students fly to Salt Lake City for the 2010 Sundance Independent Film Festival, skiing and house parties across over a dozen vacation homes rented for the weekend. Many thanks to the hard working Arts, Media and Entertainment Club for organizing the trip. Friday and Saturday, I’m seeing films with my ...
Is Beth Kanter someone who: a) has 300K+ Twitter followers? b) raised 200K+ for Cambodia kids to go to school using social media? c) is giving a PoST lecture at Stanford on her birthday? d) All the above (hint, right answer) Above: Beth speaks this morning at Stanford about Cambodian orphans Once upon a time, ...