Networking for introverts
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Networking for introverts
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#3At first I was surprised the economist would talk about the networking stack, but this is about social networking. The introverts bit makes much more sense.
Regarding the article it says "because they bring you new information, more infrequent and distant relationships (or “weak ties”) are more useful than close contacts." Mark Granovetter studied that in 1973 in The Strength of Weak Ties.
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#4Most of the article appears to be about what does not work. Here is the relevant part from the bottom of the page-
> The real secret is to save your energy for the people who are most likely to be interesting to you.
> The sweet spot in networking on LinkedIn is someone with moderately weak ties to you: connecting with a person with ten mutual friends markedly increases the probability of changing jobs compared with someone with just one shared friend.
> In other words, networking pays off if you can identify people who can bring you new information but are close enough to your world that this information is useful. In the offline world, a tool like ChatGPT should make it easier to find useful prospects in a list of event attendees. But you still need to overcome all your instincts and approach them.
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#5I don't see anything in here that I would call a "How-To Guide." This reads mostly like an ad for LinkedIn and then they threw in a very poor ChatGPT reference at the end to hit the keywords.
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#7I can only assume the fake conversation in this article is an attempt at humour, but it's not very funny. For a better starter question at an event than "Juicing up for the big keynote?" try making an anecdote about the day, such as, "that last talk was interesting, did you see it?" or going personal, like "that's a cool sticker on your laptop, where did you get it?"
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#8What is this article even about? And what does this even mean:
>In the offline world, a tool like Chatgpt should make it easier to find useful prospects in a list of event attendees.
So, should you feed a list of conference attendees to chatgpt and ask who to talk to? And how?
I personally go to conferences quite often, I'm terrible at networking but force myself to talk to people and I do have some results but I can't shake the feeling that cranking out some more features and better marketing would bring in more revenue...
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#9I don't see anything in here that I would call a "How-To Guide." This reads mostly like an ad for LinkedIn and then they threw in a very poor ChatGPT reference at the end to hit the keywords.
We used to call that "curated content." Now it just seems expected.
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#10> They are the people who are actually reading the conference blurb. They look at email on their phones with greater intensity than ever happens at the office. They endlessly circulate the room, like bits of plastic in the ocean waiting to be snagged on something. They take a seat in the main hall while the sound engineers are still testing the microphones.
Ouch.