Networking is currently undergoing a buzz and prosper with Internet as its main engine. Communities, Virtual recommendations and the implosion of global distance through communication online has made the old habit of bartering and networking connected to the local village in the rural agrarian time to be transferred to a new global context.
This Lens is supposed to guide you - and also take a critical stance.
To survive and prosper in a networked world
The Identities of You and Your Business in between Metcalf and Dunbar
At the same time there is a conflict in the rules of Metcalf and Dunbar. Metcalf rule says that the value of a network is increasing exponentially with the number of nodes. Dunbar rule says that you only can keep meaningful relations with maximum 150 people in life at the same time. How do you navigate in between rules of Metcalf and Dunbar? And could it be transferred to a meaningful organizing of your intentional route? Where do you want to go - today? What world do you want - tomorrow?
Coming content to take you to these topics to be published elsewhere and linked to here.
Social Business Networking Links - three authors, one gallery and one network type
- The New Science of Networks - Albert Laszlo Barabasi
- The University of Notre Dame Homepage of the premier scientist of present breakthroughs in the "science of networks". If you really want to understand this thing called "network" and "networking" how it affects all walks of life, universe and everything, this man is a must to stop by. And read his book "Linked", below.
- The Virtual Handshake - Scott Allen
- Applied into the art of closing online deals, Scott Allen is one of the authoroties on the business side of networking.
- The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
- When it comes to the "Small Worlds" idea, first launched by Granovetter in 1973, Chris Anderson, chief editor of Wired, delivers a "blog book" on how small networks along the "long tail" affects marketing. Book later this year on Hyperion, see book roll. Also, visit his top three place Lens!
- The Art of Networks!
- The Gallery of Network Images - explore the rest of the images, where the Intro Image I included in this Lens is one.
What is a Scale-Free Network, anyways? - Scale-Free Networks
- Answer given by Wikipedia Entry. And holds a central piece on the generic finding on how networks form in such diverse areas such as social networks, websites, Internet and nervous cells.
Book Roll on Social Business Networking
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
A groundbreaking book on the "Science of Networks" - where "scale free networks" is a central concept of the generic findings
Amazon Price: $10.40 (as of 12/09/2009) 
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Up and coming volume for the deep digestion that was introduced by Barabasi in his book "Linked"
Amazon Price: $53.27 (as of 12/09/2009)
The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors And Closing Deals Online
Closing deals online!
Amazon Price: $17.95 (as of 12/09/2009)
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Don't go for a market thinking of creating a dozen customer groups of millions each, think a million of dozens instead - along the "Power Law" forming of the Long Tail. Marketing in a world with imploding transaction costs in the World of Google.
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 12/09/2009)
Rules of Networks assorted - Dunbar, Metcalf and Reed
- The Dunbar Rule - the size of 150 in your network!
- "Your brain is hard wired to pay attention to about 150 people. Try to have a relationship with any more than that, and your life will turn to pure crap. Just ask the Military, Gore-Tex, or Krippendorf's tribe. They'll all tell you the same thing. One fifty is the way to go. They've known for hundreds of years that people work best in groups of 150 or less. Now it's your turn." - if you want to explore the meaning of "qualitative networking", this is the starting point!
- Metcalfe's Law
- The Wikipedia Entry of the "Increasing value of a network". Does this apply to your social network as well? The more connected, the more value you have? I argue, not. This applies for technology more than people. We are not fax machines or computers.
- Reed's Law
- Enters David P. Reed. If the network size ad infinitum argument is the one side, there is the small worlds argument and the "rule of 150" on the other. Reed, to my view, presents an intermediary of "building communities". This is related to Granovetter and "the strength of weak ties". Your "150" could be very strong, especially in the core your closest peers, but the bridge in between these small worlds and communities is the thing that creates even stronger values. Finding those mid-zise-connected with qualitative relationships I believe is a clue to make networking work for you!
LensRoll on networking: Related and Recommended
- Online Networking
- An even more practical hands-on "manage your own online presence" lens by Anita Cohen-Williams.
- Hey! Scott Allen is here too!
- But he has only added a link-filled description on his other stuff. His three claimed lenses are passive so far :).
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