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#EAv: Empire Avenue's CEO on Social Influence, Content and Gov 2.0

Empire Avenue - Crowdsourcing the Best Content: The Gov 2.0 Radio crew interviews Empire Avenue CEO Duleep Wijayawardhana about how  individuals, governments and cause organizations can harness social...

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#EmpireAvenue: The House Always Wins

Part of the allure of Empire Avenue is the premise of rewards and prestige for the social media activity or influence you already have. I'll often encourage folks prominent on Twitter to sign up and...

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#EmpireAvenue: More than 600 members to follow on Twitter

For Empire Avenue fans out there, I've put together three updated TweepML lists of EA members on Twitter. TweepML lets you follow up to 250 Twitter people with just a couple of clicks. These lists are...

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#EmpireAvenue: Momentum Play

If you've been on Empire Avenue for any length of time, you've probably sold several blocks of 1 share at a time. Yeah, 1 share. And you might have bought back only to notice that that buyer was...

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#EmpireAvenue: The Content Producers

Early on in Empire Avenue, I started working on a series called "100 Blogs of Empire Avenue." In those first few weeks of the invite beta, great content was not rare, but certainly it wasn't exploding...

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#EAv: Erindale is Coming - Have You Given Feedback?

The Empire Avenue social platform is so robust, it's sometimes hard to remember that it continues in beta, and significant changes to the site occur on a regular basis. In the three months I've been...

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#EmpireAvenue: Holding is Sexy #EAv

For Empire Avenue members concerned with stable stock value, there's almost nothing better than having a number of large buy-and-hold relationships with other active traders. Your share price has some...

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#EAv: Networking with Empire Avenue

This weekend, I published two new videos to the Empire Building Networking regarding networking on Empire Avenue.In the first, I talk about new features for finding folks through Twitter hashtags and...

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#EAv: Changing Consumer Behavior through Game Mechanics

I'm a total sucker for game elements in social networks. It's why I started this blog, and it's why I'm presently the No. 1 member on Empire Avenue by share price. It's why I poured tons of energy...

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#EAv: Brand X

There have been lots of interesting conversations going around about whether or not Empire Avenue works for businesses. I think it does, or that it will, but there are a lot of factors that go into...

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#EAv Why We're Not Likely to See a e100 Share This Year

First, let me say thanks to all the folks who've left supportive messages following the Great Erindale Leaderboard Crash. And thanks to Empire Building Network publisher Bill Pitcher for his clear...

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#EAv: Branding and Business Community on Empire Avenue - Scuba Diving

There are a number of very successful business-related communities on startup social networking site Empire Avenue, from The Lab to Inspiration Hub, but who would have guessed that one of the early...

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Should Facebook Pay Its Superusers? #EAv

An interesting bit of philanthropy news and a searing blog post about the state of Web 2.0 fused for me this week. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged $100 million for Newark, NJ, schools, as...

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Klout, Grader and Empire Avenue

With the latest iteration of influencer scores, Empire Avenue has taken another step into the social media metrics marketplace of Klout and HubSpot's Grader product. You can now click on the price of...

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#EAv: Controversial Cage Matches, a New Adrielhampton.com and More

First, I want to thank all my shareholders on Empire Avenue. It's a rare chance that I get to buy back your shares in volume (once you reach a certain level, you only make 10 percent back on sales),...

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#EAv: Measuring Your LinkedIn Influence

Empire Avenue, the social media stock exchange, just went live with LinkedIn scores. Unlike Klout, which provides an aggregate score for users Twitter and Facebook "influence," Empire Avenue has a...

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Down with the ROI Cult

A sickness has taken hold on Empire Avenue. It's a sharp departure from the kind of share swaps that have long been a fixture on Empire. This sickness says that if someone doesn't have strong...

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Rise Together - Don't Be A Lemming

It's fake currency. That's the first thing to remember. It's real people.With community improvements going live across Empire Avenue, it makes sense to assess goals and strategies. As I've written on...

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RZR Schools Us on Dividends and Buy Backs

Bill Pitcher, RZR, on Empire Avenue, is old guard. He's been blogging free and excellent tips about the site for close to a year, well before any significant portion of the "social media expert" crowd...

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#EAv: New Empire Avenue posts - community and more

A couple of folks from the Empire Avenue social media network were kind enough to quote me in articles about the site today. Lisa Loeffler wrote about EA for business value and her personal experience...

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