I saw a very insightful post from Konstantin Guericke, CoFounder of LinkedIn on MyLinkedInPowerForum. He writes (reposted by permission):
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:09:35 -0700
From: “Konstantin”
Subject: The power is in the network you already have
Virtually all professionals nod enthusiastically that “relationships matter,” but only a small group [...]

Did you know that today, August 31, is BlogDay 2005?
One of the things that happens as we get more and more blogs out there is that existing bloggers spend less time reading new weblogs, and there are some really great ones out there that are being overlooked.
Blogger Nir Ofir dreamed up the idea of BlogDay [...]

Here’’s the official press release for our new book:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Publisher: Kama Timbrell, 212-903-8315, ktimbrell @amanet.org
Authors: David Teten, coauthor and CEO, Nitron Advisors, David@ TheVirtualHandshake.com, 212-329-1010
Scott Allen, coauthor and About.com Entrepreneurs Guide, Scott@ TheVirtualHandshake.com, 512-215-9720
BUSINESS NETWORKING … ONLINE?
Innovative new AMACOM book shows readers how to use the latest virtual tools to win more sales, [...]

One of the essential skills that allows you to reach more people with less effort is the ability to repurpose your content for different contexts. Some examples:
- Take what you write in a private e-mail, expand on it and post it in a discussion forum
- Adapt what you wrote in a mailing list to work [...]

Here’’s a modeling tool to look at relationships between directors of major life science related companies. Go to www.recap.com and click on “power brokers of biotech”, and you”ll be taken to a real-time building screen. This is a free public version of similar analyses of power networks available at Capital IQ, [...]

Via SpeakerNetNews.com and elevatingyourbusiness.com:
“Want a way to easily check your links that is 97% accurate and won”t cost you a dime? http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
. It will go through a site in no time and produce a report to get you fixing those broken links or redirected links in no time. It will check the links [...]

Following is the latest in our series of articles on networks in various special interest communities. I worked on these articles in connection with research that we did for the Virtual Handshake book.
Networking in the Hispanic Community

by Wendy Maldonado and David Teten
We constantly hear that effective networking is critical to building a successful [...]

I’m happy to announce that the Strategic Research Institute will be hosting a major conference this December 1-2: “The New Communication Channels: Business Blogs, Social Software, and the Virtual Handshake”. The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Jersey City, New Jersey (minutes from lower Manhattan). I”ll be chairing it.
Incidentally, we [...]

One of the themes of our book is that the success of online dating is a model for the ongoing success of online business matchmaking. Online dating is not only a more efficient way to find a partner, but it has significant ancillary benefits. First, more people getting married/partnered up certainly contributes to [...]

I”ll be appearing this morning on Jim Blasingame’’s nationally syndicated radio show, “The Small Business Advocate” at a little after 7:00am Eastern. I know most of you probably aren”t up and listening to the radio at that hour, but not to worry… it’’s archived. You can listen at Jim’’s site.