Archive for December 5th, 2006

VCs & Social Networks

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

A few of us have been talking about social networking tools and the importance of having a network. In some cases, people’s networks are even a business asset.
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge takes a look at venture capitalists (VCs) and how their networks influence funding decisions.

Annual Performance Reviews

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Harvard Business School’s publication Working Knowledge has a discussion about annual performance reviews. The initial short article mentions GE’s system of ranking employees, then asks some questions. The 93 comments provide a range of experiences with reviews.
I have been in multiple places on the performance review scale. I’ve worked for a manager who gave very […]

Web Site Monitoring

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I had another moment of brilliance recently regarding this weblog. I’d been trying to figure out how to get new comment notification now that e-mail has been disabled on the server. The scratchpad used to e-mail me comments. Now, it can’t.
I had been thinking about something more technically sophisticated than I am, possibly involving a […]

Changing Membership Info on Manila

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I had one of those “Aha!” moments on the scratchpad. While combating the latest round of comment spam (almost 1000 spam since mid November and it’s coming in at a rate of about 100 per day right now {Ugh!}), I found a widget where I should be able to update some information for members of […]


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