Wednesday LinkedIn Update

I did a lot of posting the last couple of days, and while I'm back in the office today I am swamped. Check back tomorrow for the regular Main Dish posting.

I did want to update you on my LinkedIn Fakester network.

20 connections
700+ 2 degrees away
18,000+ 3 degrees away

I am totally surprised by this last stat, I have zero additional rejections. I guess people have a tendency to not want to reject something, so they just let it sit on the shelf. It's remarkable, but I've only had, I think, 9 people actually not accept the invititation, while 20 people have so far... for a person that does not exist!

Comments

[Jim Clifton]

Jeff,

Been following your blog for a while and love the LinkedIn hoax, but you might want to check out a study out of Stanford...bottomline, they assert that innovation comes from weak ties between diverse sources. So, maybe some of your "weak links" are of value...takes a creative mind to play.

Check it out...

http://www.corante.com/ideaflow/archives/2004/02/02/weak_ties_make_for_stronger_innovation.php

[jn]

yeah, that's the Weinberger theory of small things loosely joined... in short, hyperlinks and the Web.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738205435/002-2412363-5326442?v=glance