"Lately it’s been conference season in my world, which means presentations galore! I have been doing a social media and digital technology session since 2007 but as social media gets better, so does the great info for the sessions. Recently I have stumbled upon a vast empty space for development shops when it comes to their use of LinkedIn..."

http://www.prospectresearch.com/prospect-research/is-your-research-department-using-linkedin-at-all-to-its-full-potential.htm

That fact that America’s tax code is progressive–i.e., the wealthy pay more–has been largely a given since the first income-tax was levied in 1862. Yet the Buffett Rule and the ensuing debate over Mitt Romney’s  taxes has painted a picture of America’s tax structure as regressive. Polls show that many Americans think the wealthy now pay a lower share than the rest of America.

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2012/04/18/the-real-tax-rates-of-the-rich/?mod=WSJBlog

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2012/83/korea-billionaires-12_land.html

Judy Lynch is driving a forklift, and I am trotting behind her.....Lynch is in charge of six people in the 50,000-square-foot warehouse serving the main plant of the Heat Transfer Products Group in Scottsboro, Ala...It had been a small, forgotten part of a larger company when in 2010 it was purchased by Monomoy Capital Partners, a private equity group that manages about $700 million in investments. Monomoy specializes in buying medium-size manufacturers and making them more efficient.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-26/my-week-at-private-equity-boot-camp

The New York City-based Foundation Center and Development Gateway in Washington, D.C., have announced a strategic partnership that will see them combine their expertise in global philanthropy and development to produce a clearer picture of international aid flows.

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=377300021

CBS Corp. (CBS) directors decided to give Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves a $69.9 million pay package last year after assessing the competitive market for senior executive talent. The board defined that market as pay for CEOs at companies that are on average more than twice as large as CBS, and many in businesses far afield from media. Such lopsided comparisons aren’t unusual at U.S. corporations.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-26/ceos-earn-more-than-they-would-without-u-s-boards-showing-bias.html

Hedge fund managers are predicting a tough year for the sector in 2012. A report by the consulting firm Rothstein Kass found about half of the 400 hedge fund managers who responded believed that 2012 would be a “a difficult or somewhat difficult” year for the industry. Almost 40 percent expressed concerns that the United States would enter a double-dip recession. Only about 32 percent of those who responded in 2011 thought it would be a rough year for hedge funds.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/hedge-fund-managers-see-tough-year-for-industry/?nl=business&emc=edit_dlbkam_20120426

The partners of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are not quite billionaires. But they are following the lead of Warren E. Buffett.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/partners-at-andreessen-horowitz-make-charity-pledge/?nl=business&emc=edit_dlbkam_20120426

Two-thirds of affluent U.S. investors typically donate less than $2,500 in cash each year to one or more charitable groups, according to survey results released Monday by Phoenix Marketing International.

www.advisorone.com/2012/04/05/most-affluent-investors-give-less-than-2500-a-year

The shareholder rejection of Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Vikram Pandit's $15-million pay package has some on Wall Street wondering if the same fate might be in store for the heads of other big U.S. banks.

www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exec-pay-20120419,0,790809.story?