I often say that I lead the most serendipitous life imaginable.
In my typical anal retentive fashion of setting goals for this year, I chose an odd one, "To collect people." This means that I actively search for opportunities and situations that put me in the way of meeting new people. (One of my long-standing business practices has been to give anyone an hour of my time.)
What happens when you meet more people is that you naturally connect to even broader sources of information or recommendations. For example, if I needed to I could get the name of the man who made Sean Connery's wig for Hunt for Red October.
Since these are initial, unconnected musings, I thought I would suggest visits to two of my new favorite websites:
http://www.mojopages.com/
An online method of customer rating businesses, the third Internet company started by Jon Carder.
http://www.humanclock.com/
One of the most benign and delightful online communities.
And, of course, a shout out to one of my favorites.
http://www.birdmonster.com/
The trials and tribulations of indie rock band, Birdmonster. Don't miss the blog, already awarded a Blog of Note kudo.
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While I'm not sure if I'd ever be looking for whoever made Sean Connery's rug, I've found another site that has amazing resources and implications.
It's called LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) and is a voluntary database of people, their profiles, and their closest networks of friends. Their free version is very powerful. Well, it's not free (what is?!) although all you need to do is link to people you know. And you can start with people already in LinkedIn if you don't feel good asking friends to try it.
In my case, I have 196 direct contacts, which connects me with 24,000+ people who they know and will likely introduce me. Oh, and there are more than 1.5 million people only one more step removed. Now THAT's a network!
Using conservative averages, that's means there are only six persons between me and 142.8 million others.
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