http://sterlingraphael.com President, NFi Studios in Orlando, Florida. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:55:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ahh... beautiful San Diego. We just arrived here at the 2008 ASAE Annual Meeting. The weather is great, and Elizabeth Barnanik and I are poised and excited to be at our first Annual Meeting. It was just earlier this year that we launched our professional networking solution, MemberFuse at the 2008 ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2008/08/15/arrived-in-san-diego-for-2008-asae-annual-meeting/ The Future of Web Apps event in Miami was a great experience for me personally and the entire team at NFi Studios. Being founded as a more service driven company, in the past few years NFi Studios has shifted to a Web Application team, offering clients powerful online solutions. So ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2008/03/03/future-of-web-apps-miami-wrap-up/ Brian Breslin, co-organizer of BarCamp Miami, spoke a bit on Social Graphing, the ability to abstract, understand and leverage the relationships between people throughout the web. With Google's Social Graph API, website users and developers can discover the connection they have with other people through links between social media sites ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2008/03/02/social-graphing-at-barcamp-miami-08/ I’m proud to say our attendance at the 2008 Technology Conference was a huge success for both NFi Studios and me personally. The solutions and services of our team couldn’t be a better fit for associations right now. This is a very significant moment in time for the association industry. It ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2008/02/05/2008-asae-technology-conference-wrap-up/ This week a team from NFi Studios including yours truly, will be traveling to Washington, D.C. for the 2008 Association Technology Conference & Expo. I consider my attendance and participation at this event a great way for me to start the year off proactively. I have no ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2008/01/28/nfi-studios-to-attend-the-2008-association-technology-conference/ About six months ago Lynda Raphael wrote a blog The New Business Of Social Networking, which offers an analysis on applying the concept of social networking to associations, turning it into more of Professional Networking for Members of Associations. As these months have past by, this topic has only heated ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2008/01/08/the-increasing-relavance-of-social-newtorking-for-associations/ Thanks to the hard work of the Team at NFi Studios, I'm proud to say we are ready for launch of our new product MemberFuse! As social networking is an obvious trend in the world today, we are focusing on bringing the power of today's technological tools to the Association ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2008/01/08/nfi-studios-is-launching-memberfuse/ We just had our FIRST holiday party here at NFi Studios. And I was so pleased with the turn out. From Family and friends to colleagues and associates the guest list represented the key people that have supported our team to reach its current success, and will most definitely be ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2007/12/19/the-nfi-studios-team-is-absolutely-amazing/ I'm excited to be speaking at the ASAE Technology Conference on January 31st with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) as co-speakers! This will be a great event for our team as we plan to announce our new product MemberFuse to the association industry. More on this event to ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2007/12/18/asae/ The past few months have been crazy. I had hoped to update my blog often, but obviously havent. In fact I've been made fun of a lot since my first post was written completely in third person! Well Sterling Raphael will stop writing that way and he will try to ... http://sterlingraphael.com/index.php/2007/08/17/finally-sterling-raphael-updates-his-blog/