Dana Oshiro

Dana Oshiro is the Senior Analyst and Publishing Strategist for NetShelter Technology Media - a publishing group with more than 136 million unique visitors and more than 200 properties. In her spare time she writes for ReadWriteWeb and her personal blog VillagersWithPitchforks. She tweets her thoughts at @suzyperplexus.

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Tuesday, 5th July 2011

Tribal Leadership: A Review

Organizational leadership theories too often manifest into tedious memoirs peppered with Sun Tzu and Machiavelli quotes. The frequent outcome is subjecting teams to rewriting job priorities as MBOs, IDEO founder David Kelley is featured, I was willing to give it a read. After all, these two leaders have clearly made strides in defining positive…

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Tuesday, 26th April 2011

Digital Lifestyle

Reputation Management Services Should Practice What They Preach

Online reputation has been measured by in-bound links through Google Ranking, RSS and feed subscribers and now, the number of social media shares on services like Klout and Echo apps. As new reputation systems have emerged, an army of deceptive users have risen up to game them via link farms and exchanges, fake profile generators and most recently…

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Wednesday, 10th November 2010

Risk-takers and Strategists: Jeremiah Owyang on Long-Term Social Media Planning

Two years ago, 93% of Americans believed companies should have a social media presence. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. At this point, with Twitter and Facebook having hit critical mass and millions opting into location-based…

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Wednesday, 21st July 2010

There's Money to be Made in "Premium Privacy" Says VC Fred Wilson

When veteran blogger and venture capitalist Fred Wilson addresses an audience on the business opportunities in geolocational services, you can't help but listen. While we have our own opinions as to why users have gone geoloco this year, Wilson explained his perspective from an investment standpoint at today's Geoloco conference.

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Tuesday, 20th July 2010

Google Image Search Gets a Redesign and New Search Ads

With more than 10 billion images indexed, Google Image Search has become the visual reference source to beat. Google's VP Marissa Mayer took the stage at a press conference today to announce the company's latest image search redesign. In November 2009, ReadWriteWeb covered the introduction of Image Swirl but since then little news has come from…

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Tuesday, 20th April 2010

Using the Startup Process to Change Disaster Relief

In early December a Supernova session entitled, How Startup Companies Can Change the World had presenters brainstorm ways to connect the technology industry with policy makers. Coupled with many of the discussions already taking place in the Gov. 2.0 movement, the session looked at how technologists can contribute to projects they might not…

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Thursday, 15th April 2010

Inside Twitter's Developer Fears with OneForty's Laura Fitton

After a busy couple of days, oneforty app store founder Laura Fitton is in the unique position as the unofficial spokesperson for a developer community turned upside down in the wake of the Tweetie acquisition and Promoted Tweets launch. As the company hosts its first Chirp developer conference, thousands of coders are questioning their role and…

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Wednesday, 14th April 2010

How to Burn Bridges with Bootup Labs and Other Investors

When Phoenix-based designer Jamie Martin's blog post hit the front page of Hacker News earlier today, he realized what it's like to burn bridges in a connected world. After his company Status.ly and three other startups were dropped from the Bootup Labs program roster due to financial difficulty, Martin blogged about the unfortunate incident and…

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Tuesday, 16th March 2010

Seed Incubator Panel: YCombinator, VentureHacks, Capital Factory, TechStars

A decade ago, entrepreneurs saw seed funds as a means to an end. There was little effort to brand the separate groups, there were few celebrity angels and the entire VC community seemed shrouded in mystery. Enter the seed incubator model. Between Paul Graham of YCombinator, David Cohen of TechStars, Naval Ravikant of Venture Hacks and Josh Baer…

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Sunday, 14th March 2010

Is Innovation Fair? Andrew Keen Says No

Andrew Keen is no stranger to controversy. He has irritated bloggers by equating Web 2.0 with communism and enraged citizen journalists with his best selling book, Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. Naturally when I saw Keen's core conversation "Is Innovation Fair?" on the SXSW program, I knew it would incite lively…

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