Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell is ReadWriteWeb's Community Manager and a daily writer. In the past, O'Dell has worked on newspapers, on magazines, for book publishers, for serial entrepreneurs, on startup teams, at advertising and marketing agencies, and for enterprise blogs and websites. O'Dell has a B.A. in Media Studies from Shenandoah University. You can contact Jolie at jolie@readwriteweb.com.

Posts by Jolie O'Dell

Wednesday, 17th March 2010

Why Aren't There More Venture Services Firms? POLL RESULTS

Last night, we asked folks if they'd rather have cash or services (like marketing, development and HR services) to help their early stage startup grow. While our readers' responses were pretty evenly split, the split between startups that seek capital first far outweigh those that seek to make equity-for-services deals. Also, the number of VC…

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Monday, 15th March 2010

POLL: What's the Best Way to Support Startups, Services or Cash?

After wrapping up a panel with a gamut of pro- and anti-VC types at SXSW, I'm left wondering why there aren't more services-oriented startup firms. Let me explain: Most of the time, when a startup goes after venture capital, they're still in the process of building a product and bringing it to market. They need things like servers, developers…

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Thursday, 11th March 2010

What Do Social Media Marketers Know About Tech? SURVEY RESULTS

First, we'd like to thank all 596 survey respondents and the many Open Thread commenters who gave such interesting and valuable feedback in our recent post "Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?" Over the past couple days, we've been able to put together a decent picture and identify some knowledge gaps and points of…

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Wednesday, 10th March 2010

Kiwis to Bring $900M in Bandwidth-Building Cables to New Zealand

For obvious reasons, we care about what goes on in various parts of the world, particularly New Zealand and other areas that are underserved in terms of Internet access. So, we were quite excited to learn this evening of a new proposal that would give New Zealanders - including a couple RWW staff members - a better broadband experience…

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Open Thread: Why Go to Tech Conferences, Anyway?

When it comes to tech conferences, the first thing most people think about is the parties. They might think about networking opportunities or learning experiences, but all too often, these are brushed off as mutual admiration societies and redundant, unoriginal chatter. I've heard every critique imaginable about some of the best-known tech…

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Tuesday, 9th March 2010

Social Bookmarking

Delicious Chrome Extension Early Beta Now Available

Bookmarking service Delicious has just rolled out a Google Chrome browser extension. Like other Chrome extensions we love to play with, this one is lightweight, fast and useful. There's no bulky sidebar here. Bookmarks can be created and saved with a miniscule "TAG" button and they can be searched from Chrome's excellent omnibar. So, do you…

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Open Thread: Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?

Social media gurus: We all know one. If you're lucky, you know only one. They are the attendees of tech parties, the "Twitter consultants," the armchair generals of the Internet, and their numbers grow by the day. Yet most of them couldn't distinguish a line of code from a badly punctuated haiku. What's to be done with the social media experts…

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SXSW 2010 for Web Celeb Stalkers

A ReadWriteWeb Guide OMG! Kevin Rose just touched my shirt! Don't lie - we know you get butterflies at the thought of bumping into iJustine or Robert Scoble at a tech conference. We've pulled together a nice little cheat sheet just for you, friends. Whether you want a simple handshake, and autograph on your iPhone or a chance to pitch your idea…

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Monday, 8th March 2010

Chris Pirillo Debuts E-Book: 140 Twitter Tips

One of our favorite geeks has just released an e-book on best practices for Twitter use. Chris Pirillo's 140 Twitter Tips, a 14-page PDF, is a concise compendium of useful guidelines and helpful hints for every kind of Twitter user, from doing-it-wrong noobs to social media addicts. From the best time of day to get retweets to how to process…

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Sunday, 7th March 2010

Chatroulette Creator Coming to America?

It seems the 17-year-old truant who created Chatroulette has applied for a visa. The youngster, be he lucky or brilliant, has indicated he might want to transition to the American scene at some time in the near future. With all the media attention he and his service have received and the explosion of traffic - and monetization potential - on his…

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