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The Secret Sauce: Social Media and Networking

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Meet LeadChange [link] How often do you play video games? What is the first thing you do when you are playing a new game? When I sit down to play a new game that is filled with scenery and objectives, every part of my being wants to explore and experiment. I’m curious how far I can wander before [.].

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The Prodigal Daughters of Business :: Women on Business

Women on Business

As far as the business world was concerned, I’d hopped a flying egg-beater to Outer Mongolia and was forgotten with crushing ease and rapidity. What had happened to my life? As intensely as I loved my children—as blessed as I was by their very presence—becoming a SAHM sometimes felt like an unexpected demotion.

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The Lost Art of Connecting

Leading Blog

Business connections are a chance to thread “people together to create something bigger and unknown”—to build a constellation of people that share not only “your values and your vision but also those who challenge you, expose your blind spots, and broaden the diversity and breadth of your network.”. W HO are the stars in your constellation?

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Dave Gardner on Using Social Media to Connect With Big Companies

Rajesh Setty

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) Dell uses Radian6 which is now owned by Salesforce.com to monitor what’s being said about them in the social media space.

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Why Network Effects Matter Less Than They Used To

Harvard Business Review

For a long time we emphasized “network effects” as a potential secret sauce for business models. Economists use “network effects” to describe contexts where a good or service offers increasing benefits the more users it has. Why don’t network effects work as they used to?

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Who’s Managing Your Company’s Network Effects?

Harvard Business Review

Much as war is too important to be left to the generals, the business of network effects is too valuable to be entrusted to the CMOs and CIOs. Network effects make Google Google, Facebook Facebook, Twitter Twitter, Netflix Netflix and Pinterest Pinterest. IT may understand the underlying software, algorithms and digital media.

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Exclusive: Chris Garrett Reveals His Secrets of Success (and More.

Terry Starbucker

In stages I started getting into the Internet via the usenet newsgroups and email, I saw it as an extension of the geeky socializing I was doing on Fidonet and the BBS stuff. But there is more to Chris than this knowledge and business savvy. On your “about” page, you refer to your use of the Internet as an “addiction” that started in 1994.