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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

The internet is great for spreading information and rallying crowds, but you can’t mobilize people to collaborate and create something of lasting value simply by connecting them via the web. To get serious results from a network, you need commitment and a continuity of relationships among the participants.

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The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

The company understands it as the fabric out of which value is created in the network economy. Seats2meet.com makes an enormous effort to develop the best technology available to support this serendipity. Therefore, the networks themselves become extraordinarily dynamic and flow into each other, forming a mesh.