Stefania Pomponi, Denter and one of the Founders of Clever Girls Collective (the agency that architected the now-famous #batkid escapadein San Francisco), had the idea to create a new influencer network when she saw an American snowboarder move to Russia because that's where he could find a sponsor.

There's a post up on TIME.com about how to get people to like you better. A collection of tips from Robin Dreeke, the former head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program range from the obvious (ask questions!) to the less obvious and more useful (best question to ask: what is challenging you?).

Yesterday a group of Seattle-area Denters got together for a tour of the Microsoft Envisioning Center (it's attached to the Home of the Future, where Microsoft explores the future technologies for productivity), and for a little wine, pizza, and flight simulation at Flyte, a Redmond-area startup building some very cool new flight sim technology.

On March 24 2015, Redfin's Chief Economist Nela Richardson will be joining us onstage in Sun Valley for a session titled "The Anatomy of Disruption". In anticipation of her appearance, we interviewed her recently about what exactly a "chief economist" does.

GOOD Magazine, which has been championing the good life of doing good since 2006, will be hosting one of the dine-around dinners that attendees will experience on Monday the 23rd, and joining us as the official media partner for Dent 2015.

In addition to hosting one of the much loved Dent Dinners in town on Monday night, Leeo is offering Dent attendees who register before March 10 a free Leeo Smart Alert Nightlight -- that's the thing pictured here in this post.

We're dog lovers at Dent. Brody, the wheaten-terrier you see pictured here, has been to every Dent (though he's remained in the background).

We're going to go ahead and file this report from Catalyst under the heading "obvious but nice to have some actual data for it."

I get tons of speaker proposals, and have for years (with the Tweet House, Twitter Conferences, Web Community Summit, Blog Business Summit, and now Dent). There are good ways and bad ways to pitch...