Month: February 2009
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8 Simple Steps to Personal Networking
Here are some simple steps you can take to start easy, and create a habit of expanding the value of your network by bridging gaps. Make a list of everyone you have exchanged email with in the past month [gmail search] Add to your list some personal notes: what they do for a living, their…
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Complete(?) Kiva Network
I wanted to offer up an image of the complete(?) network after all of the kind interest in the preliminary network map I put together yesterday. From the feedback yesterday, I learned my lesson and have linked to a high-res version of the image.
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Kiva Micro-Lending Offers API
Incredibly great idea Kiva.org, the distributed micro-lending organization, has recently released a freely available API for accessing their data. I have just started poking at the data available, as I suspect network analysis will be able to help predict rates of return. Good on ‘ya Kiva! Update: hi-res image by request from smoovej
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Demographics Fail
We forget, now that our reach is wide, that all purchasing is done by individuals. Since we don’t know the individuals, and locating and selling to each and every one of them (us) is too expensive, we developed marketing to help us select the people, the individuals, most likely to purchase whatever we are selling. …