But Don’t Take Any Wooden Ones…
I am attending two conferences next month and I want to make the most of them. Marci Alboher gives some great tips on how to “pre-game” for a conference. clipped from shine.yahoo.com Spend some time online. Visit the conference’s website and start studying the speaker list. If the conference is using a social [...]
Tonight I mixed and migled with many of the attendees and presenters of Finovate 2009. Finovate is like TechCrunch 50 for banking and investing and finance-related start-ups. I will be at the conference tomorrow for most of the day except for the hours I will be doing bookkeeping. It was good to see Jon and [...]
Finovate New York is Tuesday, September 29. Online financial applications including Money Strands, Bill Shrink and Outright will be there. I am also attending and will do plenty of blogging about the conference.
Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist is now a social network which is like a Facebook for professionals. Koda.us is a new site for social recruiting. KODA allows emerging talent and smart companies to go beyond the resume or traditional job posting with employer and employee profiles that allow both sides of the hiring equation to get [...]
If you are new to Keeping Nickels, I want to let you know that I have recently combined my love of food photography to blogging about business and personal finance. East post will feature a picture I have taken in the last week. Friday night, I attended BizNik event at In Good Company. Biznik is [...]
April 20, 2009
Nichelle Stephens
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With an eye on keeping expenses to a minimum, it’s good to focus on business-related that can inform, inspire or connect you to the right people. I recommend these events below. Tonight, Girls in Tech hosts pitching expert Laura Allen tonight for a super-fast 15-second pitch session for Women in Start-ups. Fee: $10.99 On October [...]
October 6, 2008
Nichelle Stephens
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Phillip Robertson (ooVoo) Kathryn Jones (synchronis.tv), Matt Caldecutt (TrylonSMR), originally uploaded by ckieff. Monday, I stopped the offices of Ripple6 for conversation, community and lots of wine and cheese. Ripple6 is [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } originally uploaded by Rachel. Moo has business cards! I ordered a few, and I have gotten loads of compliments on the cards. The paper stock is excellent as well. You can [...]
September 23, 2008
Nichelle Stephens
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Thanks to Noah and Piers being out of the country, I was asked to co-host this morning’s LikeMind here in NYC. LikeMind is a monthly coffee gathering where a mix of creatives, marketing, bloggers, start-up founders and freelancers and anyone else who is social in the early morning come and meet. We had a fun [...]
I attended Jelly today and I had a meeting at Bottle Rocket Wine. I scanned the shelves at the store and the Brut from New Mexico sounded cool, so I bought a bottle to share with the co-working crowd. Thanks to Tony for the new router, and thanks to Nancy for hosting today’s Jelly.
