http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/A Guide to Living and Working AbroadNick Clayton 2006en-GBSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)chrisTue, 29 May 2007 22:38:45 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/12/4/trapped-in-telefonica-broadband-limbo.html#comments59571:512811:comment/841352BartWed, 02 Aug 2006 08:35:50 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/4/28/not-quite-the-idyllic-notion-i-had-in-mind.html#comments59571:512811:comment/430993
You can pay for the same thing elsewhere, particularly if you have similar requirements to friends of mine. A Canadian-Italian couple who have just sent their five year old to school to study in Italian and French. He now speaks English to his mother, Italian to his father and French to everyone else.]]>BartWed, 02 Aug 2006 08:27:12 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/430989
I get enough SPAM as it is.

With regards to copyright - I have similar concerns, particularly when the T&C's you have to 'accept' in order to use these online services are total gobbledigook to your average user (i.e. me).

Can anyone say that they've actually bothered to read them - ever?]]>NickThu, 13 Jul 2006 09:56:01 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/412315BartThu, 13 Jul 2006 09:33:31 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/412303
However it does seem that Myspace is becoming de rigeur in terms of simply 'existing' on the net.

I have yet to sign up - but many of my friends have done so.]]>Matthew LFri, 30 Jun 2006 01:28:21 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/400754
In my experience, LinkedIn is the best of the professional networking sites in terms of a decent interface and a place to post an up-to-date profile. There are UK professionals on there and for me it's an easy way to broadcast changes to people I would otherwise lose touch with as out careers (and emails) change. I've also been able to source experts or people with experience of certain topics that I was interested in at the time - for example, I found an agent suitable for market-testing an idea in Houston. Certainly a few of my own contacts have asked me to put them in touch with people on my list. It's easy to forget it though and therefore gain little use out of it though, so I understand the negative points made.

Myspace.com is just the community site that feels the least geeky and has no dating overtones. There are a number of music professionals (cool ones, not necessarily established) and a few people such as Gnarls Barkley and Cassie have used the site to gain interest in their music.

Between the two, they provide a touchpoint for professional contacts and for freinds to see what I'm up to. For me, its just another way to seek contacts that are useful for a project perhaps or just insight into the next city I visit. It's also a way to maintain loose contact with people I might otherwise lose contact with completely.

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]]>BartSun, 11 Jun 2006 09:54:00 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/377817Or is there a stigma attached to us 'desk-in-the-sunners'? Perhaps it annoys Brits who have been SENT abroad to work, only to find that they could have done it without selling their soul to some malodourous international capitalist corporation/institution?]]>Nick ClaytonWed, 10 May 2006 14:26:25 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/348427
I'm not quite sure how you get round this problem. Basically, most of the people who you would want to network with are too busy to go in for networking. And that's exactly why you want to network with them...]]>BartThu, 27 Apr 2006 07:11:37 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/338811
I got numerous requests to log-on and give personal references, but to be honest I found it very US centric and anyone I did give a reference to didn't seem to want to do likewise in return (nobody loves me).

Anyway I finally got irritated with the constant email barrage so unsubscribed after a few weeks.

Unfortunately I now see LinkedIn as a vast network of unemployed Americans, so don't consider it a terribly useful resource.

B]]>Nick ClaytonFri, 07 Apr 2006 15:22:28 +0000http://www.adeskinthesun.com/guardian-articles/2006/3/29/the-latest-column.html#comments59571:512811:comment/323191
I've been trying to work out which are the most productive networks. You mention Linkedin. What made you choose that one?

I'm also intrigued to see you mention myspace which seems generally to be associated with people who have only recently enjoyed the wonders of puberty.]]>