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Archive for May, 2008


How Do We Sustain Relationships

Written by: Bill Sherman on Saturday, 31 May 2008, 5:46 AM

When you have a global relationship, it’s hard to join someone for breakfast or afternoon coffee. Yet, it’s interesting to see which tools we use. Those of us who use e-mail, tend to use it a whole lot to sustain relationships. A recent study looks at how people in one town in Canada use network-sustaining [...]

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Home and the World

Written by: Bill Sherman on Thursday, 29 May 2008, 4:02 AM

Today, I catalogued the locations of my LinkedIn connections. This doesn’t represent the totality of my network, but it represents a fair sample.

I’ve lived in the midwestern U.S. all of my life. However, 63% of my current LinkedIn connections live well beyond my region. They’re scattered around the U.S. and the world. If I expanded [...]

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The Power of Social Networks

Written by: Bill Sherman on Monday, 26 May 2008, 9:36 PM

Today, I wrote a column on the Invincibelle blog about an interesting piece of research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers looked at people who were quitting smoking, and they located several interesting findings:

A person’s decision to quit smoking is significantly influenced by their network–not only the people they know but also [...]

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Posted in: Professional Relationships, Social Capital, Strategies, Tolerances, Workplace | Leave a Comment


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