http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=9758&cn=353
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Journaling can provide a good outlet for times when you need to vent but don’t have anyone to vent to. Journaling couldn’t be simpler. You simply write about your experience and emotion. Whatever you might say to a confidant, you can simply write down in a journal entry. In effect, the journal itself becomes your confidant.
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Maybe that’s what I’m doing here?
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FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH A FELLOW TURKEY
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I think I am networked out…you just sent me an invitation to Naymz yesterday which I accepted. How many of these sites can one use ? I know I have signed up for ecademy (sp ?), friendster, Linkedin, Ryze, and probably others. The only networking site I really use on a regular basis is Linkedin.
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I agree, but personally I’m afraid that by not being on one that I’ll miss something.
I didn’t do ecademy because it’s too European flavored. And, they want money. Ryze was taken over by MLMers imho. I use LinkedIn on regular basis too.
Do you still have two ids?
I agree that f2f is better, but what’s a poor fat old introvert to do. I like the “social networking” genre because as Lucht preaches “the web of weak links” and the fact that they “social networks” are really always working.
I won’t condemn all of “social networking” as an activity trap just quite yet. Only because I don’t have a higher value replacement.
Doing networking a la Lucht style (f2f as you mention) is just too expensive in attention, time, and money. Sure f2f is better than socnet, but you can do a lot more socnet than f2f.
Are they equally productive?
I believe not.
But, I don’t know what the Expected Value comparison would look like.
If one could do 100 high quality f2fs, what would one expect? If one does 1000 high quality socnet contacts, what would one expect? Clearly, I can’t do 100 f2fs. But, I can juggle a 1000 socnets. The payoff is still uncertain.
As always, YMMV,
:-)
fjohn
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The problem as I see it is that you have no way of estimating the roi. Networking by f2f or by socnet is completely different. I’m not even sure if it is fair to compare. Clearly, f2f has a higher cost. Clearly, socnet is “easier”; at least easier to a fat old ITSJ. As an old injineer, you’d have to design a very careful experiment before making conclusions. It’s a social science nightmare. So many variables, so few constants. Even one’s experiment could be contaminated by a worsening or even an improving economy. Argh! It makes my head hurt with just the thought.
IMHO, socnet is a different kind of “networking”. Potentially a precursor or auxiliary to “f2f networking”. It certainly does NOT map to Lucht’s structured networking paradigm “make appoint to sked 15 minutes, meet (five on hello / goodbye, five on what you want, five on what the target sees), extract two names, send ty, repeat until you find a job”.
I THINK imho “networking” is the process of creating (weak) ties with people, who when they hear of something that you’d be interested in, will take the time to contact you. The usual motivation is like “mutually assured destruction” (i.e., I’ll look for you and you look for me). Although, other motivations might be: common ties (i.e., same school), mutual friends (i.e., a common friend), shared interests (i.e., golf), or even a grandfalloon (i.e., a mythical common bond like vets about military service). In f2f, the motivation to cooperate is high because both halves have made an investment in the relationship. In socnet, the motivation is unclear because the focus in on the communication vehicle.
Have to think about this some more.
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http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/21/the_greatest_generation
The Greatest Generation
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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The “greatest generation” is a term sometimes used in reference to those Americans who were raised during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, worked in farms and factories and sacrificed for the war effort while maintaining the home front. Following the war, these Americans, many of whom were born between the turn of the century and 1930, went on to produce a level of wealth and prosperity heretofore unknown to mankind.
There’s no question that this generation made an important contribution. Let’s look at what else that generation contributed that might qualify them for the generation that laid the foundation for the greatest betrayal of our nation’s core founding principle: limited federal government exercising only constitutionally enumerated powers.
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Williams correctly removes the “greatest generation” label from the “Depression / WW2” people. They really screwed up by letting the gooferment, who created the Great Depression with the Smoot Hawley Tariff, “save” them by the removal of the gold standard buried among all the “recovery programs”. That single event allowed the gooferment to grow exponentially, run up a debt, and effectively tax every dollar holder by inflation. At least. the French Kings had to shave the French Franc to pay for their excesses.
Short of a Ron Paul presidential victory, I don’t see how we get our liberty back. The American Republic ended with the War of Northern Aggression. It’s been downhill ever since.
One wonders what will touch off the the Third American Revolution?
And, just how bad it will be?
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071120_ron_paul_does_the_math
Cheering for Ron Paul
Posted on Nov 20, 2007
By Robert Scheer
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That money could have paid for a lot of things we could have used here at home. As Rep. Paul points out, for what the Iraq war costs, we could present each family of four a check for $46,000—which exceeds the $43,000 median household income in his Texas district. He asks: “What about the impact of those costs on education, the very thing that so often helps to increase earnings? Forty-six thousand dollars would cover 90 percent of the tuition costs to attend a four-year public university in Texas for both children in that family of four. But, instead of sending kids to college, too often we’re sending them to Iraq, where the best news in a long time is they [the insurgents] aren’t killing our men and women as fast as they were last month.”
How damning that it takes a libertarian Republican to remind the leading Democratic candidates of the opportunity costs of a war that most Democrats in Congress voted for. But they don’t need to take Paul’s word for it; last week, the majority staff of the Joint Economic Committee in Congress came up with similarly startling estimates of the long-term costs of this war.
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It is interesting when one hears costs put into comprehensible terms. I can imagine how that mythical family of four feels when they hear that they could have invested in their children or paid for the “emperor’s new clothes” (i.e., we can have ‘peace in our time’, ‘make the world safe for democracy’, ‘turn back the yellow hordes’, or what ever the phrase is for the next war). Sigh!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm
UK’s families put on fraud alert
Alistair Darling
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.
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The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25 million people.
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OK, it’s the UK. But what makes you think that our politicians, komisars, and bureaucrats are any better? And, you feel comfortable with these bozos protecting you, holding more of your data, and being “stand up” people? What are you nuts? No, you’re just sheeple!
Argh!
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Answer #2
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liken the career path to a business plan. Business set up their goals for the next 18-24 months and end up changing them as they move along due a number of external factors that are out of their control.
Career pathing is so different for each company that there’s no “SDLC”. My recommendation is to look at your company’s goals and map those goals into your current job and your next job. Get with your manager and set those tasks on paper. Tie your bonus dollars that year toward successful achievement of those goals.
Then look at positions or departments and why a move would make sense for you. You may choose never to move up but rather to move across the organization leveraging your current skills to build new skills. There’s no silver bullet for career pathing, just try to plot a sensible path that is achievable and make modifications as you learn more. Good luck.
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Barry Miller
Manager Alumni Career Programs and Services at Pace University
Using Linked In to Connect to fellow alumni
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I would like to connect with New York University alumni, even if I do not know them. Is it possible to do this within Linked IN?
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I’d also warn about the “five strikes and your out” policy that LinkedIn has to discourage spammers.
I’d offer you the suggestion to set up your own alumni ezine in the form of a free blog (Mine is http://www.jasperjottings.com). Just keep recording everything you “hear” about NYUers there.
(I did more than that, but I’m not sure you want to invest that amount of time.)
I think it’s safer to draw people to you, and form a granfalloon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon) around NYU. It’ll take a little more work and a little more time, but eventually you will have people coming to you to tout their accomplishments.
To date, I’d say about half of my networking contacts come from that one granfalloon.
Of course, your mileage may vary! Hope this helps.
fjohn
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SHARED WITH ONE OF MY LINKEDIN CONTACTS
May I suggest that you might want to add more contacts to your LinkedIn profile?
LinkedIn is the “find” and “be found” site. But your profile has to be “real”. There are many suspicious profiles on LinkedIn. My taxonomy is: ghosts (abandoned), strawman (owned by a recruiter advertising a real someone and who will “toll booth” you to make contact), scarecrow (owned by a recruiter who will try to sell you a substitute), a zombie (an identity of potentially a real person setup by someone else for other purposes like expanding a contact list to look more popular), and an alter ego (a second profile to feature a different persona). One characteristic they all share is a single, or sparse, contact list. Your contact list is like that. If you’re not getting the results you want, that might be the reason.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/54831-the-5-stages-of-grieving-over-the-u-s-dollar
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Finally, stage five, acceptance. The foreign currencies rise to sustainable levels versus the US dollar. Inflation and real economic activity decline in the foreign countries. They begin buying more goods and services from the US, and dollar claims are redeemed. Inflation and interest rates rise in the US, as we have to produce more to pay off the dollar reserves now being redeemed by foreigners. (Send us goods and it will pay off your debts! Amazing how the US got good terms on both sides of the transaction.”)
Well, maybe. It will take a while before all major trading parties in the world float/adjust their currencies to fair levels. At the time that happens, though, it will be obvious that the US is less important to the global economy. The relative value of all US assets will be a smaller proportion of global assets, though it will still likely be the largest share in the world. My view is this process to get to stage five will take no more than 10 years.
By that point, the hopelessness of Federal social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare, plus underfunded Federal and state retirement plans, will force benefit reductions and tax increases on the US, and crimp borrowing capacity, unless they borrow in a currency other than dollars.
There are five stages of grieving for US social welfare programs as well, but I am afraid we are only in the first stage now, denial.
That is a topic for another day, and not one that I am excited to talk about.
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Happy tday! Enjoy it. The tough times are most certainly coming.
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