May 25

One of the core beliefs of BNI is that education is a key part of enhancing individual member referral generating expertise. Dr. Misner, Founder & Chairman of Business Network International (BNI), has written 10 books including his New York Times Bestsellers: Masters of Sales, Truth or Delusion? And Masters of Networking. Michelle R. Donovan is known as The Referability Expert in Pittsburgh. She owns and operates Referral Institute in Western Pennsylvania and is the founder of Pinnacle Training Services. She has published over 30 articles on networking and referral marketing in multiple publications. Michelle recently completed her first book, The 29% Solution: 52 Weekly Networking Success Strategies (Greenleaf, 2008), which she co-authored with Ivan R. Misner, Ph.D.. The book conveys the idea that six degrees of separation can be achieved, because quite simply, connecting is a skill that can be acquired. It offers strategies and guidance that can be implemented over 52 weeks in order to establish and maintain connections that will put users of the principles into the 29 percent of people that are truly connected by six degrees or less.

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Apr 28

Join the Social Data Revolution!

• http://weigend.com

This video gives a summary of Class 4 (April 16th, 2009) of the new course “Marketing 2.x” at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley presented by Andreas Weigend (Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D).

March 19th, 2009, Class 1
Marketing 2.x: The Social Data Revolution
MBA 267, Spring 2009-B
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Presentation by Andreas Weigend (Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D). Mankind is transformed by the data created by individuals. Information overload has become more serious than ever. Social discovery is the new search. What applications can we build to create relevant meaning in our lives?

Extract Insights from Twitter
Put Yourself in Google’s Shoes
Develop Relevance Beyond Amazon
Build Revolutionary Facebook Applications

Students: Lead the Social Data Revolution by taking STATS 252 this Spring (Data Mining and E-Business, 3 units). Undergrad, grad, and SCPD students with web programming experience are welcome. Enroll using Axess ID 10584.
Attend the first class on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 2:15 5:05 pm in Gates B01.

Everyone else: Find the latest content and discover people who change the world through data.

Likely guests speakers include:
Gina Bianchini (founder of Ning)
Reid Hoffman (founder and CEO of LinkedIn)
Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired and kk.org)
Jan Pedersen (former Chief Scientist of Yahoo)

… and a surprise from Facebook!

Suggest guest speakers for this year through wall posts!

For previous course notes and information, please see:
• http://weigend.com/teaching/
• http://stanford2008.wikispaces.com/
• http://ischool2008.wikispaces.com/

Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.

He currently lectures at Stanford, Berkeley and Tsinghua Universities on the application of data analysis to electronic business problems. He is an advisor to many technology companies including MySpace and Nokia, and is a limited partner in The Founders Fund.

Video Filmed & Produced by Shaun Tai for SHAUN TAI Films ©2009 - shaun@ztymedia.com, (925) 297-9370.

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Apr 22

Join the Social Data Revolution! • weigend.com This video gives a glimpse into the first class of the new course “Marketing 2.x” at

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Apr 15

Join the Social Data Revolution! • weigend.com Ted Shelton is currently CEO of The Conversation Group. Ted has spent the past 20 years working in the high tech industry, as a software developer and executive in both public and privately held companies. Prior roles include Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere. Presentation by Andreas Weigend (Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D.). Mankind is transformed by the data created by individuals …

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Mar 28

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