Jeff Nolan

My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant. Home About Venture Chronicles About Venture Chronicles My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant. Along the way to becoming a bona fide blogger I started to understand the implications of user generated content. At the time I was a venture capitalist for SAP, the enterprise software company, and in my travels in the enterprise software market it became evident that blogging would be a powerful communication channel for enterprises to use, what we now call social media, and a powerful information collection mechanism for bottom up corporate intelligence. Combined with search technology, social networking software, and wikis, I was witnessing the inception of an entirely new generation of knowledge management software. I am currently the VP Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction, the simple and effective way to build online communities that enable productive conversations between companies and their customers. Over 50,000 companies use Get Satisfaction to create a social support experience, build better products, realize SEO benefits, and take advantage of brand loyalty behaviors that results in strong word of mouth marketing experiences in the market. I can be reached at jnolan-at-gmail-dot-com.

Latest from Jeff Nolan

Lies, Damn Lies, and Research Reports

Microsoft’s PR group sent out this research note this morning and while I don’t normally respond to such outreach this one caught my attention. IDC prepared it and makes some pretty bold projections like technology spending will grow at 3x the rate of GDP growth for 52 countries surveyed (no word on who those 52 ...

The Alarming Tendency for Newspapers to Alter the Record

I’ve seen this on more than a few occasions and find it very disturbing. So, the Washington Post published a story on its website, revised the story to omit details that appeared in the relevant piece, and yet did not disclose these facts to the Post’s online readers. Isn’t this a problem? There may well ...

Feedly Adds Topic Exploration

Feedly is one of my favorite services, not only does it offer a highly polished presentation layer that makes reading my subscriptions more pleasing but it has a nice set of social features for sharing content and with their latest release a really compelling set of search and topic exploration features. If you have been ...

Sidewiki: Back to the Future! Blast from the Past! Other Clever Reference to Staleness!

Google announced Sidewiki, an add-on to Google Toolbar that allows any user to add notes to a webpage. Google Sidewiki is a new feature being added today to the Google Toolbar that allows anyone to leave comments about pages as they surf the web. Love something you’re reading? Hate it? You can share your views ...

I’m a Blogger; What is this ‘Fact-Checking’ You Speak of, Mr. President? [Newspaper Bailouts]

I don’t think anyone would deny that good journalism is both disciplined and increasingly not the domain of newspapers and broadcast media, but I find it interesting that the President would specifically latch on to the notion of a newspaper bailout by the Federal government as a potentially necessary step to combat the blogosphere. “I ...

Around the World in 22 Minutes

This quote from Jon Banner, executive producer of ABC Nightly News, is one of those truths that are said innocently enough without the speaker realizing how much they are saying about why the traditional news business is in the trouble that it is in. If you only have 22 minutes to inform and educate your ...

Get the Gist of Things Quickly

I’ve been participating in the private beta for Gist and have many good things to say about the product but to simply say that finally there is a product that brings your inbox together with web content and activity streams is huge. What Friendfeed did for social networks Gist can do for email and it ...

The Death of $2k Navigation Systems

Car companies have focused on navigation systems as a core technology offering for at least a decade now, and remarkably the price of these systems has stayed pretty constant, about $2,000. Few manufacturers offer the nav system standalone, you typically get it as part of a “technology package” that includes things like integrated Bluetooth, parking ...

StockTwits Isn’t Simply a Twitter Client, It’s a Community Powered Investment Service

I am a big fan of Howard and Soren, what they have done with StockTwits is both visionary and massively disruptive to the well defended financial news industry. When Howard asked me if I wanted to alpha test their new Desktop application I jumped at the opportunity and when I opened the app for the ...

Did You Know: Technorati Changed their Biz Model? [biting feeding hands]

Technorati is getting some heat for hiring bloggers… getting heat from people who wish the company would just do better the thing that they used to do which proved to not be a business worth having. See the logic? So what is Technorati planning? Another Google Knol or Mahalo? Whatever their plans are its a ...