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@ EconSM: Deals And Dealmakers: The Outlook For 2008 - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 05:17 PM PST

The final panel at EconSM was the deals panel, which ContentNext Editor and Publisher Rafat Ali described as the “flagship” panel. Economy and outlook for 2008: Geoff Yang, Redpoint…

@ EconSM: Rafat’s Opening Remarks From Our Social Media Conference - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 29 Apr 2008 08:47 AM PST

Our publisher Rafat Ali is on stage at the Skirball Center auditorium in beautiful scenery here in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, kicking off our second EconSM conference covering the…

The Next Phase Of Our Company: Scaling From The Inside Out - 21 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 27 Mar 2008 01:30 PM PST

Some time around late summer last year, about six months after we moved into our (first-ever) office in Santa Monica, I realized we needed to start asking the “BIG S”…

@ FOBM: The Disruptors: ‘The Consumer is the Ultimate Disruptor’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 30 Oct 2007 01:31 PM PST

On the final panel at the Future of Business Media Conference, ContentNext editor and publisher Rafat Ali and paidContent.org executive editor Staci Kramer discussed the meaning of “disruption”, particularly as…

@ FOBM: Deals: What’s Next?; Credit Crunch Affecting the Big Deals, Still Plenty of Small Strategics - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 30 Oct 2007 10:40 AM PST

With the credit crunch causing uncertainty across all industries, ContentNext editor and publisher Rafat Ali spoke with a group of media dealmakers at the Future of Business Media Conference. While…

@ FOBM: Lunchtime Q&A with Neil Cavuto; ‘Content Still is King’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 30 Oct 2007 09:36 AM PST

Over lunch at the Future of Business Media Conference, Neil Cavuto sat down with paidContent.org executive editor Staci Kramer and Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of ContentNext. Cavuto, of course,…

@ FOBM: Consumer Business Magazines: What does it take? - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 30 Oct 2007 06:07 AM PST

Picking up from where the Forbes panel discussion at Future Of Business Media left off, Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of ContentNext Media Network, asked Keith Fox, president of BusinessWeek,…

@ FOBM: Amid Consolidation, Forbes.com Looks To Further Define Itself Against Its Print Version - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 30 Oct 2007 05:01 AM PST

One year after Forbes sold a significant minority stake to Elevation Partners, Rafat Ali, ContentNext’s publisher and editor, opened the Future of Business Media Conference at the Walforf=Astoria in NYC…

Future of Business Media: It is D-Day - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 29 Oct 2007 08:23 PM PST

The activities for our ”Future of Business Media” conference started this evening in NYC. We had a fabulous reception of the attendees at the swanky IAC (NSDQ: IACI) building, followed…