Just read your article on the supper connectors. Lolled at a couple of things. (1) that you seem to use the word "operationalising" without any sense of irony. That's fine, but I just can't take its seriously :-)
2) That Ferrazi puts journalists on the list. I think that this might be (a) an American kind of thing and (b) slightly out of date. In my niche journalist world (business, specifically insurance) you don't need a gazillion contacts; and those that I have are easy to find -- why would they need to be a "friend" on Facebook. I think that here there's a big difference between LinkedIn and Facebook. A "contact" is just that. There's no pretence at friendship, remembering the person's wife's name, meeting socially, etc. But I would positively bar these as friends on acebook and would not count them as friends in any meaningful sense, because I never think about them except when I need something from them.
If you only every think about a person when you need something from them, or when someone else needs something and you think that another person in your list of contacts could supply it, then that person is not a friend -- he's part of your social network. I would contend that these are two very different things.
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Date: 2010-03-07 08:41 pm (UTC)2) That Ferrazi puts journalists on the list. I think that this might be (a) an American kind of thing and (b) slightly out of date. In my niche journalist world (business, specifically insurance) you don't need a gazillion contacts; and those that I have are easy to find -- why would they need to be a "friend" on Facebook. I think that here there's a big difference between LinkedIn and Facebook. A "contact" is just that. There's no pretence at friendship, remembering the person's wife's name, meeting socially, etc. But I would positively bar these as friends on acebook and would not count them as friends in any meaningful sense, because I never think about them except when I need something from them.
If you only every think about a person when you need something from them, or when someone else needs something and you think that another person in your list of contacts could supply it, then that person is not a friend -- he's part of your social network. I would contend that these are two very different things.
PJ