Using Facebook for Professional Networking

Boris Epstein does a thor­ough post on using Face­book for pro­fes­sional net­work­ing. I’ve always con­sid­ered LinkedIn more suited for pro­fes­sional net­work­ing, but the post lays out a rea­son­able approach for mak­ing some­thing use­ful of Face­book as well. (You will have to ignore all the quizzes and zom­bie games though.)

The Startup Entrepreneur’s Guide To Risk Management

Just skimmed The Startup Entrepreneur’s Guide To Risk Man­age­ment: good piece. I always knew my back­ground in risk man­age­ment was an entre­pre­neur­ial asset, but it’s often little-appreciated in con­text. Tid­bit: there’s a 35% chance you’ll be killed by one of the sur­vive all ten items you have a 90% chance of get­ting right.

Malcolm Gladwell: The future of the media

Mal­colm Glad­well inter­viewed in The Inde­pen­dent: “‘One day, I’ll write a really nerdy book’… but until then, Mal­colm Glad­well will be the rock star of non-fiction. As he embarks on a British tour, the author talks to David Usborne about plane crashes, Gor­don Brown – and why Obama’s elec­tion was a true tip­ping point”

Using Free Applications Power Your Business

A Web­site Mag­a­zine arti­cle cov­ers Free/Open Source alter­na­tives to soft­ware from Microsoft & Co. It’s a lit­tle Ubuntu-centric (I’d rec­om­mend Man­driva, PCLin­uxOS, Open­SuSE…) and mis­states one point: OpenOf­fice is not Ubuntu’s office suite, it’s Sun’s, and is the office suite Ubuntu com­monly uses.