We're Making Some Changes at Affluence.org
Affluence.org, the leading social media site for the wealthy, is getting better. We're adding new content, bringing in experts on luxury goods, fine art, antiques and technology, and adding new ways for you to find and share information. You'll notice several changes in the coming months - including a new design with many new tools. We want to hear from you as well as we rebuild Affluence.org.
Question of the Week
Each week, you'll see a new question from our editors. We want your feedback and hope to start conversations on a range of topics. We're looking for your suggestions as well, so if there’s a question you’d like us to ask, please share.
New Content
Here are two new sections we'll be launching soon:
Personal Technology Channel
We use smart phones to keep in touch when we travel. We use computers to read the news, build personal networks and watch the videos our children created during vacation. We interact everyday with personal technology, and some days we dream of adding new tech toys to power our boats, improve the sound in our home theater or help us survive a noisy airplane trip.
Yet understanding how to use personal technology--and finding the best tools for your needs--are questions that vex all of us. With Affluence.org's new personal technology section, we will review products to help you make better decisions, answer questions on how to best use your technology and create specialized forums where members can help each other with tech advice.
Art/Collectibles/Luxury Goods Channel
Affluence.org’s Fine Arts/Antiques & Luxury Goods channel will be your destination to learn more about the art of collecting, and get the inside scoop on luxury goods products new to the marketplace. We’ll offer updates on museum acquisitions, recent auction sales, reproduction alerts, gallery openings worldwide and much more!
The “Marketplace” will allow members to privately sell their fine art, antiques, collectibles, and luxury goods. We will also offer “acquisition services” assisting buyers in locating items at an optimal price and appraisals.
We look forward to getting your feedback and learning about your collecting interests.
Meet our Experts
Eric Benderoff
Eric used a typewriter to land his first job and an iPhone to shoot his first professionally published photo. An editor, journalist and columnist with the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and a number of B-to-B magazines, Benderoff's personal technology column has been published in newspapers and on Web sites across the country. In 2009, he launched Bendable Media to deliver professional-grade content for business clients as well as develop digital and traditional content strategies for media concerns. His most recent project is Appolicious.com, a Web site for discovering mobile applications. He regularly discusses technology issues on Chicago's WGN-AM 720 as well as the nationally syndicated First Business television program.
Reyne Haines
Media personality Reyne Haines, an expert in 20th Century Decorative Arts, is called upon to appraise collectibles ranging from antique watches to $20 million paintings. Her appraising skills are also in high demand by investment firms, high-end estates and charity auctions. Reyne hosts The Art of Collecting on KPRC, Houston's NBC, a weekly program spotlighting trends and news items in the world of antiques & collectibles. A regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Reyne is a repeat guest on CBS' The Early Show and can be heard on Martha Stewart Living Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio Network. She rose to popularity on PBS' Emmy-Award-nominated Antiques Roadshow.
She founded Reyne Gallery in Cincinnati, which specializes in 20th Century Decorative Arts with an emphasis on Tiffany Studios; and co-founded The Finer Things in New York City, a company that acquires and sold luxury goods for clients. In 2003, she wrote "The Art of Glass" for the Dayton Art Institute. Recently, she penned the introduction to the new "Warman's Companion on Watches" and a chapter on investing in Tiffany for the 2009 edition of "Warman's Antiques and Collectibles." She also recently completed a book on watch collecting for Krause, the leading collectibles publisher.
