New article on investor communications up

Everything has changed in the last 5 years about how the Internet figures into investor relations.  I’ve coauthored an article with Jeff Connaughton at Quinn Gillespie and Associates about it.  Please take a moment and read about the major changes ahead for investor relations because of the Internet [PDF, 18k].

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Twittering the poker trip

So I’ve setup twitter as an experiment during the upcoming Vegas trip.  If you’re interested in following me, you can check the right column of the blog at www.safdar.net, my Facebook status, or actually follow me on twitter if you’re that sort of person that actually uses twitter to follow people. I may not keep…

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Safdar Summer Tournament Poker Camp

A couple of years ago, right before Moishe was born, I made a long desired trip to play in one of the baby events at the World Series of Poker.  I did terribly and got put out after an hour and twenty minutes, but it was fun nevertheless.  The rest of that trip was mostly…

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How to reach Shabbir

Someone commented that they wanted to e-mail me but there was no entry on my blog about how to do that.  So here’s some guidance in order of my preference: Write me by e-mail: I much prefer to be approached by e-mail. You can send e-mail to shabbir -at- safdar.net.  You will be prompted to…

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Poker experiment is over

So I think my experiment with session length is over.  Playing last night live and microstakes online for the last few weeks has yielded a number of epiphanies. The reason that I’m trying to run short sessions is to cover for leaks in my game.  The longer I sit, the more the leaks cut into…

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The three rules of being the lead client contact

If you’re on a team consulting to a client, there are three rules you need to follow if you’re the client lead or the point of contact: When a client sends you a request, you need to acknowledge it right away even if you don’t know how you’re going to handle it.  You can follow…

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Omigod, I’m going to shoot soup out my nose!

I just caught "Wikihistory", by Desmond Warzel, a short story about a collaborative wiki being kept by time travelers.  All the worst behaviors of both time travelers and wikipedia fans are in full effect.  It’s a hysterical read.  Start at the top and work your way down, just like reading fiction.

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