By: M E Aguiar

M E Aguiar — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:01:01 +0000

The article you refer to was in the Wall Street Journal and not the NY Times

By: M Freijsen

M Freijsen — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:10:20 +0000

this is useful information – thank you for collating. Just one point that I would like to make as co-founder of the E.Factor is that we are a truly global site with members from Europe, Asia, North- and South America, Africa and Australia.

By: iluvmeida

iluvmeida — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:37:32 +0000

Yep, I’m glad you raised this. Looking for online networks where like-minded people can get together and bang heads is not easy. I think its tough for several reasons:
1. The quality of a professional network involves filtering those who enter your space. Understanding where they are in their life, their experience, their outlook etc is not easily discernable online, and lets face it, we don’t want to be responding to people all day who just don’t get it(unless you set up a blog site like this one)
2. Using/passing on what you get out of a professional network assumes that you’ve trusted the source you’ve gained it from – it’s the Wikki conundrum… moreover if you pass on advice, how do you know that it will be applied in the proper way? Will we have to add a disclaimer to each piece of advice we put out there?
3. Professional and social get togethers require different etiquette – so does the online space. If you’re a professional will you take the time to learn what’s required to get the most out of the network?
iluvmedia

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