Comments on: Found – used car for $8,516.58 http://delarue.net/blog/2008/03/found-car/ …acting on knowledge, communication and learning Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:42:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: AcKnowledge Consulting » Blog Archive » The value of social networking and collaboration http://delarue.net/blog/2008/03/found-car/comment-page-1/#comment-19631 AcKnowledge Consulting » Blog Archive » The value of social networking and collaboration Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:00:45 +0000 http://delarue.net/blog/2008/03/found-car/#comment-19631 [...] The new projects I have been working on have mostly come via the network of people that I have had the privilege to meet and work with over the last four years or so.  Much of my contact with these people has been via this site, and via Facebook and LinkedIn.  (Which have also helped me to find a new car!)  So it was very timely that one of my network colleagues has drawn my attention to this NY Times article on LinkedIn’s recent capital raising.  (Thanks, Sharon!)  [...] [...] The new projects I have been working on have mostly come via the network of people that I have had the privilege to meet and work with over the last four years or so.  Much of my contact with these people has been via this site, and via Facebook and LinkedIn.  (Which have also helped me to find a new car!)  So it was very timely that one of my network colleagues has drawn my attention to this NY Times article on LinkedIn’s recent capital raising.  (Thanks, Sharon!)  [...]

]]> By: It’d take a lot of it to make a man laugh… » Blog Archive » The power of social networking http://delarue.net/blog/2008/03/found-car/comment-page-1/#comment-11787 It’d take a lot of it to make a man laugh… » Blog Archive » The power of social networking Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:01:35 +0000 http://delarue.net/blog/2008/03/found-car/#comment-11787 [...] So we have found our new car.  This certainly demonstrates the power of networks.  It also is an example of the use of a “hook” in a story.  Would the exercise have worked in the same way if I had just written: “Wanted - used car”?  A couple of my correspondents mentioned that it was the use of the precise amount of $8,516.58 in the title that attracted attention.  This is also perhaps reflects the “stickiness” factor discussed by Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point.  (In fact, my use of a number like this was inspired by an old Sci-Fi short story by Larry Niven.) [...] [...] So we have found our new car.  This certainly demonstrates the power of networks.  It also is an example of the use of a “hook” in a story.  Would the exercise have worked in the same way if I had just written: “Wanted – used car”?  A couple of my correspondents mentioned that it was the use of the precise amount of $8,516.58 in the title that attracted attention.  This is also perhaps reflects the “stickiness” factor discussed by Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point.  (In fact, my use of a number like this was inspired by an old Sci-Fi short story by Larry Niven.) [...]

]]> By: Cory Banks http://delarue.net/blog/2008/03/found-car/comment-page-1/#comment-11637 Cory Banks Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:01:41 +0000 http://delarue.net/blog/2008/03/found-car/#comment-11637 Well done mate. Cory Well done mate.

Cory

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