ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2012
So what is the founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman's Action Plan for Networking? He calls them Reid's Rules. I read a really truly compelling article on CNN last night, pumping Reid Hoffman's new book The Start-Up of You. The book seems really good. Reid Hoffman has had an incredible run starting...
01/25/2012
Yes, it's that time of year. Young girls across the country are descending on doorsteps to sell Samoa's, Thin Mints, and Do-Si-Do's. That's right. It's GIRL SCOUT COOKIE season. My daughter just turned six and is a Daisy (Girl Scout in training). This is her first year as a Daisy. She was re...
01/23/2012
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There have been a number of blogs posted on ActiveRain (on Tammy, Fred and Katerina's blogs to name three) recently talking about the Stop Online Priacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Both are well intentioned, but poorly crafted. Both proposed acts in Congress wou...
01/18/2012
Hi Everyone, I am very happy to write this blog post! Last week, we finished the upgrade of ActiveRain.com to the latest software platform (Ruby on Rails 2.3.14) which should enable us to develop on ActiveRain much faster than previously. This is the end of three month project. We hit a bump ne...
01/17/2012
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As members know, we at ActiveRain have been involved in the re-launch of RealEstate.com. We all think it is a unique opportunity to build on the name recognition of RealEstate.com while creating a real estate web site that cleanly presents real estate professionals to home buyers and sellers. ...
01/16/2012
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I bet some of you saw the title of this blog post and shuddered. This is a short blog post to let everyone know that TLW and I spent an hour on the phone today and talked it out. We both deeply care about the community, ActiveRain.com, the employees at ActiveRain and have a vested interest in i...
01/12/2012
I blogged several times about two dear friends of mine from business school - Dave Linn and his wife Jen Goodman Linn who blogged at youfearless.com Jen was 33 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called a sarcoma. You can read my first blog post about Jen Goodman Linn here. Jen ...
01/11/2012
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What does it mean to be an Ambassador of ActiveRain? I am sure that nearly everyone member of ActiveRain has seen the orange badge and the orange star reserved for the Ambassadors of ActiveRain. So that begs the question: what does it mean to become an Ambassador of ActiveRain and how do I becom...
01/11/2012
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Everyone, I wanted to keep the community updated on the upgrade of ActiveRain to the software platform Rails 2.3.14. We have discussed previously, ActiveRain has been working on the software upgrade from Rails 2.2.2 to 2.3.14 using an outside consulting company called Pivotal. ActiveRain is ba...
01/03/2012
