Happy About: The Emergence of The Relationship Economy (PDF)

Factors, which has as its mission to serve the networking needs of the global Wireless Communications Community - Wirelessfactors.com. He is also a co-founder of social networking groups with Margaret Orem, including: Link to New York - Linktonewyork.com and Link to Wall Street - Linktowallstreet.com



Jay has studied numerous platforms, features, functions and the markets behavior. His analysis and findings led him to believe that this space has tremendous potential for individuals, companies and entire industries. He espouses that there is an art and science to social networking that requires constant learning as the market matures.
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, and 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 2006.
During the dot com boom, he started several web initiatives and sold them while working with some of the best internet starts that are still successful today. Prior to 1992, he was a serial entrepreneur by founding operating and selling other businesses.



Margaret Orem is an entrepreneur with CEO operational experience in growing concerns, start-up businesses, and troubled companies. With a foundation in government, public, private, and non-profit entities, she has expertise in both restructuring and building new and existing enterprises.
Ms. Orem is CEO of Execsolution, Inc. - Execsolution.com, which specializes in executive search, deal flow and commodity trading introductions, and social network creation, development, and launching. She is a co-founder of social networking groups with Jay Deragon, including: Link to New York - Linktonewyork.com and Link to Wall Street - 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.
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 is an educator, trainer, and consummate networker who enjoys provoking thought and encouraging the retention of information. His teaching method – perhaps best described as “edutainment” – uses a variety of media to include social networking websites and other contemporary communications formats. He has presented and trained on a variety of topics, and teaches primarily non-traditional students in both individual and cohort settings, in both face-to-face and online environments.
Carter served in the United States Army for over twenty years, in a variety of positions. He trained several thousand senior military, mid-level managers, soldiers, and civilians over his twenty-plus year career. Upon his retirement, Carter entered the business community, where he employed his unique consultative teaching style and passion for strategic networking before returning to serve the Army in a civilian capacity.



In 2004, he left civil service to pursue a challenging career that blends education with training in an entrepreneurial framework. In addition to his training assignments while in the military and, since 1997, for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s STAR Program, Carter has taught at the college level in a variety of disciplines since 1990.
Carter is a member of several professional associations, and has several gang and police related projects in development, including The Gangfighters Network and The Cop Connection Network.