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Measuring Your Network

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Anything worth doing is worth measuring. If you are a job seeker or individual concerned about your personal brand, measuring your impact on your network and beyond is important. If you run a business, it is critical! A close parallel is that daily annoyance in our lives that we know as a radio or television network. While these are one-to-many networks instead of a social network that is almost always a many-to-many concept, starting with… Read More »Measuring Your Network

Do Not Blow Your Nodes

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A big mistake in thinking conceptually about social networking is overlooking the fact that it is in a multidimensional space. Linear thinking will almost always produce a limited picture of contact bubbles connected by straight lines representing those networked connections. I have been guilty of recommending to job seekers that they build a “tree” of network contacts by following each one to reach other contacts because this is the easiest way to visualize and teach… Read More »Do Not Blow Your Nodes

Networking for Baboons and the Rest of Us

Dr. Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist who wrote his PhD dissertation on the social organization of the gelada baboon. Known today as an expert in primate behavior, he devised a correlation between the brain size of various primates and their average social group size. Guess what? You are a primate. According to Dunbar, human beings only have the capacity to manage between 100 and 230 distinct relationships with other people at any one time.… Read More »Networking for Baboons and the Rest of Us

Smart Networking Techniques

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It is always easier to see the negatives than the positives. When we see someone using trickery and deception we know that is not networking. One criticism heard about using networking in a job search is that an individual has to be outgoing and give in to the ideas of others in order to be successful. Nothing could be further from the truth. Anything that appears to be phony is highly likely to be detected… Read More »Smart Networking Techniques

Stupid Networking Tricks

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Every career counselor gives the advice that networking is the best way find a new job. In the parallel world of recruiting, networking is also the key to locate candidates for hire. I have engaged in debates on both sides of this divide with the intent of promoting a real dialog between parties with mutual interests in order to form a contract of benefit to both sides. In a perfect world, networkers on both sides… Read More »Stupid Networking Tricks