Amit Gupta arranged for Danger Quicksand to become a ChangeThis manifesto and it has been downloaded 3,055 times in the last six days. I called him today to thank him for this additional exposure and to find out who my unexpected benefactor is and what else he has been doing.<\/p>\n
Amit went to Amherst College, in Amherst, Mass. He spent a few years at Amherst before departing to set up a college marketing\/advertising company, The Daily Jolt<\/a> -a college network run by students. <\/p>\n That was five years ago and the company is still going strong and is still profitable. You can see the value proposition on this advertising page<\/a>. <\/p>\n Amit eventually returned to Amherst and got degrees in Computer Science and in Economics after serving a few months on a project with the World Health Organization in New Delhi.<\/p>\n He joined Seth Godin as an intern on the ChangeThis project last summer. ChangeThis publishes manifestos that deserve a wider audience and they have a list of free downloads<\/a> that bear investigation. <\/p>\n Now that ChangeThis is launched, Amit is off on a new project that I can certainly see the need for progress in this area. I have not Email traffic in large corporations must be running into bandwidth So, keep your eye on Amit. He is definitely up to something and I wish him well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amit Gupta arranged for Danger Quicksand to become a ChangeThis manifesto and it has been downloaded 3,055 times in the last six days. I called him today to thank him for this additional exposure and to find out who my unexpected benefactor is and what else he has been doing.<\/p>\n Amit went to Amherst College, in Amherst, Mass. He spent a few years at Amherst before departing to set up a college marketing\/advertising company, The Daily Jolt<\/a> -a college network run by students. <\/p>\n That was five years ago and the company is still going strong and is still profitable. You can see the value proposition on this advertising page<\/a>. <\/p>\n Amit eventually returned to Amherst and got degrees in Computer Science and in Economics after serving a few months on a project with the World Health Organization in New Delhi.<\/p>\n He joined Seth Godin as an intern on the ChangeThis project last summer. ChangeThis publishes manifestos that deserve a wider audience and they have a list of free downloads<\/a> that bear investigation. <\/p>\n
\nhas interesting implications for closed online communities. He was not
\nin a position to say much about it, but I got the impression of a
\nTypePad approach to making it easier to start and maintain online
\ncommunities.<\/p>\n
\nbeen overly impressed with forums or with the Wikis I have seen. The
\nconcepts are great, but current implementations could be greatly
\nimproved. This may be the next big area for corporations to explore. <\/p>\n
\nproblems by now as the traffic is relative to the number of connections
\nbetween employees, not just headcount. Internally managed online
\ncommunities can cut email traffic dramatically.<\/p>\n