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David Mullings
Co-founder and CEO
Realvibez Media
West Palm Beach, Florida

Beyond Politics

I was taken aback by your many references to socialism in the article about the employee-owned business Chroma Technology ["A Socialist CEO Grows Up," July]. It's disheartening to watch political dialogue in the U.S. center on labels such as liberal and conservative, which no longer have much connection to policy positions. Socialism is a set of policies that vests responsibility for the financing of social services in government agencies and responsibility for economic activity in the private sector. Whether or not a company decides to issue stock to all its employees has nothing to do with socialism. There are well-run and poorly run employee-owned companies all over the world. Chroma confused ownership, governance, and management.

Chris Noble
President and CEO
Ultimate Balance
Winchester, Massachusetts

Steering Successories

I think it's great that Jack Miller is going to make a push for a proper website for Successories [Case Study, July]. I've enjoyed seeing those motivational signs for years. But that's part of the problem that even the experts did not get. Those signs and posters have been aroundfor years, and they seem pretty dated today. The messages will stand the test of time, but I'm not sure the signs will. Can Successories come up with a different way of getting those messages out there? Maybe it should rethink that part of the business as much as it is rethinking going to the Web.

Bill Dudley
Co-founder
Bamboo Outfitters
Howell, Michigan

Not Just Networking

As a small-business owner and entrepreneur, I have tried my hand at a variety of networking groups, some of which were profiled in the article by Elaine Pofeldt ["Gold-Plated Networking Groups," July]. I would point out, however, that, in my experience, the Women Presidents' Organization is more than just a networking group. The WPO is a peer group whose members counsel one another on crucial business decisions. That's more than a networking group can do.

Ava Seavey
President
Avalanche Creative Services
Tomkins Cove, New York

Corrections:

In the Inc. 500 listings in our September 2008 issue, we misidentified the CEOs of WilDon Solutions and SyApps. WilDon's CEO and president is Dana Jones. SyApps's CEO is Bala Sundar. In the same issue, we omitted Rory Wilfong and Steve Young, two of the co-CEOs of GetMyHomeValue.com.

In our August issue, the article "Keep Running" misidentified the American marathon runner Ryan Hall. On the Contributors page in August, the photos of Robert Andrew Powell and Scott Westcott were reversed.

In "Horse Race: Searching for the Next Digg" (July), we understated the Web traffic for Alltop.com; as of July, the site drew 204,000 unique visitors a month, according to Compete, a tracking site.

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