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 [...]
Archive for May, 2008
How Do We Sustain Relationships
Written by: Bill Sherman on Saturday, 31 May 2008, 5:46 AM
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 [...]
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 [...]
2010/03/13: Bi-Directional Collaboration
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2010/01/21: Orphans Intend to Depart Haiti (Again)
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2010/01/19: Update: 100+ Orphans Caught in Potentially Lethal Red Tape
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2010/01/19: Urgent: 100+ Orphans Need Your Help
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Planned Books
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Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective by Unknown |
Current Books
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Ins by Elinor Ostrom |
Recent Books
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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein |
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition by Ronald Burt |
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Strategy and the Fat Smoker; Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David H Maister |
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam |
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim |