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damn my proofreading skills - the first paragraph should read '...you aren't the kind of person worth networking with'.
Not only is my grammar up the left, but now the whole point is too. Apologies :)
Not only is my grammar up the left, but now the whole point is too. Apologies :)
Sat, August 26, 2006 |
Matto
Matto
It's so easy to make mistakes. That's why newspapers have armies of sub-editors to check journalists' grammatical, stylistic and factual errors, amongst other things.
I wish I could afford to have somebody to proofread all my postings and other ramblings.
To return to your point about people who have the time to join and use networking sites, I think you have a valid point. There are, however, a proportion of people who are just very active and manage to use online networking as a real and useful part of their working lives.
After all, in most professions and at management level in business, networking at conferences, dinners and elsewhere is regarded as an integral part of personal development. Online networking should be a more efficient means of achieving the same end as it removes the constraints of time and geography from the equation.
I mean, how much time does an executive waste travelling to and from events that moght not even be productive?
I wish I could afford to have somebody to proofread all my postings and other ramblings.
To return to your point about people who have the time to join and use networking sites, I think you have a valid point. There are, however, a proportion of people who are just very active and manage to use online networking as a real and useful part of their working lives.
After all, in most professions and at management level in business, networking at conferences, dinners and elsewhere is regarded as an integral part of personal development. Online networking should be a more efficient means of achieving the same end as it removes the constraints of time and geography from the equation.
I mean, how much time does an executive waste travelling to and from events that moght not even be productive?
Sun, August 27, 2006 |
Nick Clayton
Nick Clayton
That's probably a little unfair, since many of us are achieving balance in our lives that afford us the luxury of replying to posts on a random blog :)
Using a networking site is useful I think. It can connect you with people that you would never find using traditional methods, it can afford you background on a contact, it can present your own standard background to save you repeating the same thing to new contacts.
Personally I used LinkedIn to hold my professional profile - I then use it on my email signature so that people can get background if they need it. I also use myspace.com as a kind of personal update for people I can't be bothered to update reguarly, the ones I'd phone every so often.
That's it!
matto