July, 2007

Below are articles posted for the month of July, 2007

July 31st, 2007| Category; Storytelling

The day that you die is when your story will matter most. You cease to exist. You are no longer around. You are incommunicado.
That is the day when your story will matter to most. How will people tell it? How will they communicate it? Will they be passionate about telling your story to others? Even [...]

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July 16th, 2007| Category; Online Communities

Having been on Xing for awhile, I am exposed to various types of networking strategies that people use to find new contacts and further their business goals. I see all sorts of strategies that people use. Some have failed and some have succeeded. Most people are somewhere in between and the above scenario happens to [...]

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July 16th, 2007| Category; Community Building

On the Meetup.com homepage, it says that there are over 3,500 meetup topics. Just in my area alone, there are more 1,546 Meetup topics within a 50 mile radius. Such topics for a group include the mainstream such as a nightlife group, womens only group, and political affiliation groups.
And then there are very eclectic and [...]

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July 16th, 2007| Category; Online Communities, The People Business

Scoble talks about Why Facebook is the “it” social networking platform right now. I completely agree and it’s what I’ve been thinking especially when he compares it to LinkedIN. He articulates it better than I can.
He says;
To tell you the truth, the reason Facebook is the better networking tool is BECAUSE it’s personal. I don’t [...]

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July 16th, 2007| Category; The People Business

One of my Deanisms, if you will, is that everyone is looking to be somebody to someone.
Look into the eyes of a mother as she stares into the eyes of her baby. It’s then there that you realize how strong that truism is. She knows that she will always matter to that child and she [...]

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July 13th, 2007| Category; The People Business

I’ve always believed in this. But it helped reinforce my belief when I had a meeting with Christina Haylock of Ford Communications the other day. We sat down to talk about all things marketing. As we finished up the meeting, Chris had said that the concept of self referral doesn’t work in networking. She, of [...]

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