Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships - BusinessWeek
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According to studies, the contacts outside of our close friendships are more likely to lead us to new opportunities. Their networks have less overlap and extend into different areas.
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According to studies, the contacts outside of our close friendships are more likely to lead us to new opportunities. Their networks have less overlap and extend into different areas.
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Working with a control group of 3,000 employees, Geyer's team analyzed the words employees used, friends they had in common, blogs they left comments on, and many other variables. Then they suggested possible friends. Their most successful group added an average of 3.68 new friends to their networks, more than three times the average of the control group.
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According to studies, the contacts outside of our close friendships are more likely to lead us to new opportunities. Their networks have less overlap and extend into different areas.
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He says he has 1,864 contacts on LinkedIn.
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Hoffman looks at friendship as a marketplace in which we trade favors
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All of networked humanity mingles in this vast marketplace, trading information, creating alliances, doing favors.
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