Anyway, Networlding is a cool concept that provides true mutual gain to two or more users.  Here’s the paradox.  With limited time to get everything done in a day, the Internet is a tremendous tool to improve productivity.  Professionals can communicate, conduct research, pay bills, shop, and promote on-line with ease.  Yet, most professionals don’t understand yet that there is a "Matrix" like world out there in social networks where the connections to almost anyone already exists–it just takes a little digging to find the right pathway to contact almost anyone.  The six degrees of separation are fast morphing down to two degrees of separation.

My prediction–the millenium generation will GET this, whereas the baby boomers are fairly locked into what has worked for them for 20+ years.  Therefore, in the next 10 years, there will be nearly 100 million people on business networking sites, perhaps LinkedIn.  Everyone will explore connections for either business, volunteer activities, charities, sports clubs etc.  In fact, this era will become the Networld without a doubt, as the Internet unites almost everyone in the world.  Therefore, Networlding techniques and training to cover the basics and all the new emerging technologies such as OPEN SOCIAL will be a must.

STAY TUNED!
Craig Wilson, Guest Author for Networlding
President, American Recruiters

A Brief Meditative Contemplation About Extraordinary Potential

I think Linkedin is better than Linkedin thinks it is.

Surprising statement perhaps.   But bear with me for a moment.

You see I believe I look at Linkedin a bit differently than most people do.

I haven’t talked with Linkedin about specific numbers and I intentionally didn’t invest the time to do exhaustive research on specific numbers.

Those two things aside, let’s take some very broad numbers and contemplate some things that make them worth considering.   Things that make you go, "Hmmmm!!!"  At least they do that for me!

If we say that Linkedin is a networking environment for business professionals and then say that the average Linkedin member has 10 years of experience and then say that there are now 15 million users, that’s a total of 150 MILLION YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE!   

Sitting there. 

Sort of like oil fields, or goldmines, or spice islands, or "acres of diamonds". 

Just sitting there. 

Hmmmm!!!

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if my memory serves me correctly, I believe it only took 962 person years to build New York’s Empire Station Building.

If there are 150 Million years worth of experience on Linkedin, that could mean:

1. hundreds of thousands of years of business building experience
2. thousands of years of artistic experience
3. thousands of years of computer experience
4. thousands of years of entertainment experience
5. thousands of years of medical experience
6. thousands of years of nonprofit experience
7. thousands of years of scientific experience
8. thousands upon thousands of years of communication experience
9. thousands upon thousands of years of executive leadership experience
10. thousands upon thousands of years of problem resolution experience
11. hundreds of thousands of years of teaching & coaching & counseling experience
12. MILLIONS of years of networking experience

Hmmmm!!!  I wonder what would happen if those thousands, if those hundreds of thousands, if those thousands upon thousands, if those MILLIONS of years of experience could talk, could communicate, could be put to SOME USE? 

I wonder and I wonder and I wonder!!!

Hmmmm!!!

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Thanks, 
Vincent Wright
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