social networking

Is Your Social Graph “Local” or “Cosmopolitan?”

April 1, 2010

Peo­ple, orga­ni­za­tions and civic com­mu­ni­ties grav­i­tate toward one of two classes: local or cos­mopoli­tan. Mind­sets, com­pe­ten­cies and con­nec­tions are what dis­tin­guish these two social classes. The impli­ca­tions can be pro­found for local economies, based on the preva­lence and mind­sets of locals ver­sus cos­mopoli­tans within their pop­u­la­tion. What does this imply for social graphs

Tagged as: community structures, local versus cosmopolitan, social graph, social networking

Revised on June 4, 2010

Professionals Sharing POVs at LinkedIn

July 6, 2009

While writ­ing a rec­om­men­da­tion for a col­league on LinkedIn, I came across a great exam­ple of social net­work­ing at its best — pro­fes­sion­als shar­ing their wis­dom, based on prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence and client engage­ments, with a uni­ver­sity professor:

Tagged as: LinkedIn, social networking