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Archive for June 11th, 2004

Do you have a success story about building your business online?

Friday, June 11th, 2004

For our upcoming book on online social networks and building business relationships online, Scott Allen and I are seeking your success stories, anecdotes, and best practices.
Much of what makes the future of Online Business Networks so promising are the phenomenal success stories that have already occurred. There are dozens of stories of people starting businesses, Read More...

On structural holes

Friday, June 11th, 2004

You will usually benefit if the members of your network do not know one another. Ronald Burt, in his innovative and influential book, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition, provides fascinating support for the argument that both people and companies benefit by sitting in a “structural hole” of a network. A structural Read More...