Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Mick Cope on personal networking. Mick Cope has written a book on professional networking of which two chapters are online. These chapters read without effort, but they aren't vacuous and the material is quite convincing. Useful for anyone, really. It could serve as a prelude to Phil Agre's cheesecake-heavy Networking on the Network. One key motivation for maintaining a network is captured in this quote from chapter 1: "The strength of a wideband professional network is that it gives access to deep and tacit knowledge across a range of areas that you could never hope to touch, understand or gain access to." In other words, it makes you smarter. And if you need a network in a hurry, here's a quote from chapter 1 that provides a bit of perspective: "The time to think about your network is probably up to two or three years before you are likely to need it." Interestingly, I was chatting with Rob Paterson just this morning and I think he said he was happy he had done exactly that before leaving the bank where he worked, so that the move felt like walking from one boat to another instead of diving into cold water. [Seb's Open Research] comment [] 5:56:42 PM

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