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Point Taken Fall Newsletter: Issue 21 |
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Point Taken, meet everybody.
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Her Point Exactly:
For my mother, 'social networking' meant talking to her friends at a neighbor’s cocktail party. My, how times have changed. When we refer to social networking today, there may be absolutely no in-person connection at all – it may all be done over email and the internet. That has allowed each of us to expand our contacts, document our institutional memories, advance our careers, and find experts with special skills and talents – all with less effort and greater velocity than similar work done in person. All of these changes are great for those of us who are shy, and worried about approaching others to ask for things we need. But while social networking is a great asset to our toolbox, it can’t replace all of our need for in-person communication. There are just some times when only a meeting – or a live phone call – will do. At those times especially, we need to make sure we are creating the right impressions with the people we meet, especially if we really do need something (like a job, a connection, a resource). Those one-on-one interpersonal skills are critical to our professional and personal success, so we still need to be focusing on those skills. Linked In, the biggest social networking site for business professionals, now boasts 23 million users and a corporate valuation of $1 billion (as of June 18, 2008, according to the International Herald Tribune). All of us here at Point Taken use Linked In to keep in touch, so we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to have the chance to catch up with you, and see how you are doing. If you are online, come look us up. ~Beth Rogers 
70% social networking activity occurs in the evening, 37% of participants visit daily and 41% visit a few times per week. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds “The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’”. 
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