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Link to Your World™, LLC is a full-service company that helps organizations transform virtual relationships into real business.
We are the foremost collaborative association of professionals specializing in the systemic shifts of the emerging social networking space. Our Managing Partners are some of the top thinkers in the social media and social networking space. Together we are shaping the future of social media and the medium of social networking.
Our Vision
The Vision of Link to Your World™ is to contribute to the edification, integrity, and efficiency of the social networking space.
Our Mission
The Mission of Link to Your World™ is to help its clients minimize learning curves and enable them and their organizations to be established leaders within their chosen markets by leveraging the mediums of social networks.
Our Focus
We focus on providing the best of the best in the following areas:
• Research
• Training & Education
• Strategy
• Technology aimed at unifed communications across all networks
• Marketing and Business Development
• Media: aligning media with individual affinities
• Wireless, including Mobi
• Coaching
• Social Networking Site Development and Launching
• 3-D Virtual Worlds
• Management Consulting
We continually seek Associates who have expertise in one or more of our core offerings to join our group. Associates will be able to expand and develop their current businesses by leveraging a formal association with Link to Your World™. If you are entrepreneurial in spirit, have products or services that will be interesting to Link to Your World™ members and are excited by a revenue-sharing opportunity, please contact Margaret Orem at margaret.orem@linktoyourworld.com.
Managing Partners of Link to Your World™
Scott Allen: Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Link to Your World™ - http://www.linktoyourworld.com
Scott Allen is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Link to Your World™, LLC http://www.linktoyourworld.com, a full-service company that helps organizations transform virtual relationships into real business.
Mr. Allen is co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online (AMACOM, 2005). He is a contributing author to Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture and executive editor of LinkedIn for Recruiting and I’m on LinkedIn – Now What??
Since 2002, Mr. Allen has been the Entrepreneurs Guide for About.com, a subsidiary of The New York Times Company and one of the top ten content websites in the world. He is a monthly columnist and expert blogger for FastCompany.com and a contributing expert at Work.com, In addition, he blogs at TheVirtualHandshake.com http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com and LinkedIntelligence.com http://linkedintelligence.com.
Mr. Allen is a widely recognized authority and has been quoted or featured in books including Get Slightly Famous and Endless Referrals, as well as ABCNews.com, Money, Monster.com, The Washington Post, CFO Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Sales and Marketing Management, Networking Times, Southwest Airlines Spirit, Worth and other major publications.
As an experienced virtual and live presenter, his clients and event partners have included Microsoft, Electronic Retailing Association, Blog World and New Media Expo, Business Development Institute, Human Capital Institute, ERE Media, Execunet, American Marketing Association, OneCoach, LinkedIn and others.
Jay T. Deragon: Managing Partner and CoFounder
Link to Your World™ - http://www.linktoyourworld.com
Jay Deragon is considered one of the premier entrepreneurial thought leaders in the dynamic social networking space and the emerging industry of social networks. His blog - http://www.relationship-economy.com serves as a reference point for the emerging industry of social networks. He has had a successful career as a serial entrepreneur--founding, operating, and selling several businesses operating in a wide spectrum of industries.
Mr. Deragon is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Link to Your World™, LLC http://www.linktoyourworld.com as well as co-founder of various networks including:
• Link to New York - http://www.linktonewyork.com, and
• Link to Wall Street - http://www.linktowallstreet.com.
In addition, he founded Wireless Factors, http://www.wirelessfactors.com, that serves the networking needs of the global Wireless Communications Community.
From 2000 to 2005 Mr. Deragon was Chairman of XSVoice, a mobile application company that provided technology for live and on demand audio broadcast to mobile devices. XSVoice partnered with Sprint/Nextel and provided services to such media companies as NASCAR, Disney, ESPN, and hundreds of internet radio stations. Further, XSVoice provided Homeland Security Alerts, Comedy broadcast, Horoscopes and a host of other premium mobile content. XSVoice was bought by a public firm in January of 2005.
From 1992 to 2000 Mr. Deragon was Chairman of a management-consulting firm that performed strategic consulting services for numerous firms in a variety of global industries, including numerous Fortune 500 Companies. He is schooled and certified in most management disciplines, including: Six Sigma, ISO 9000 and 9001, Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Risk Manager, Hoshin Planning and Certified Instructor, Market Research and the Kano Model, SPC and Advanced Statistical Analysis, Group Facilitation, Group Dynamics and Organizational Dynamics.
Mr. Deragon has spoken at industry conferences around the world, and personally conducted over 100 international seminars on a variety of management topics. During the dot com boom, he started several web initiatives and sold them while working with some of the best technology firms in the world.
Margaret G. Orem: Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Link to Your World™ – http://www.linktoyourworld.com
Margaret Orem is an entrepreneur with CEO operational experience and expertise both restructuring and building new and existing enterprises. Ms. Orem is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Link to Your World™, LLC http:///www.linktoyourworld.com and Founder and CEO of Execsolution, Inc. http://www.execsolution.com. In addition, she is a co-founder of various social networks including:
• Link to New York - http://www.linktonewyork.com, and
• Link to Wall Street - http://www.linktowallstreet.com.
Ms. Orem was the Founder and CEO of MGO, Inc., which conducted business as the Rhode Island School of Modeling, the Rhode Island Model Agency, and Model Choice Cosmetics. She previously served as CEO and President of Technical Career Institutes, Inc. located in New York City, and as Vice President of the New England Institute of Technology. Prior to that, the Trustee appointed her in Bankruptcy as President and Chief Operating Officer of Wilfred American Educational Corporation, which owned and operated both post-secondary educational institutions and a publishing company.
Prior experience includes holding posts as Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Student Financial Assistance and Chief, Campus-based Policy in the United States Department of Education. In the latter capacity, Ms. Orem directed the development and interpretation of federal student financial assistance legislation, regulations and policies for programs in excess of $10 Billion USD. She is currently a Board Member of the International Debate Education Association-US - http://www.idebate.org.
Inducted into the Tau Alpha Pi Honor Society, Ms. Orem holds an MBA with a concentration in Global Management and a B.S. in Behavioral Science.
Carter F. Smith: Managing Partner
Link to Your World™ – http://www.linktoyourworld.com
Carter Smith is an educator, trainer, strategic networker, and facilitator, with a background in government, non-profit and for-profit organizations. Mr. Smith is Managing Associate, Training and Education, of Link to Your World™, LLC http://www.lintoyourworld.com. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at Austin Peay State University and Mountain State University, and a S.T.A.R. Instructor for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, part of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. He has adopted the unique edutainment teaching style, using a variety of platforms, including social media, to enhance learning and facilitate comprehension.
During his more than twenty-two year career with the United States Army, Mr. Smith served as Criminal Intelligence & Anti-Terrorism Program Manager, Team Chief of the Gang Suppression Team, Detachment Sergeant, and Special Agent-in-Charge for the US Army Criminal Investigations Command (CID).
Mr. Smith is a member of the faculty advisory board for the Global Security Institute at Austin Peay State University; and a founding board member of the Tennessee Gang Investigators Association http://www.tn-gia.org and Square One Ranch http://www.squareoneranch.org.
Mr. Smith is a Ph.D candidate at Northcentral University. He received a Juris Doctorate from Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State University. The recipient of numerous Army Commendation and Meritorious Service Medals, he was also designated as the CID Command Enlisted Special Agent of the Year. Mr. Smith is a member of Phi Alpha Delta (Law Fraternity), and the CID Special Agent’s Association.
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