5 Tips for Building Lasting Online Friendships. Brandon Mendelson is the co-author of Dracula And Kittens, a book that has little to do with networking and everything to do with the corporate food chain. For updates, you can follow Brandon on Twitter. Most columns on networking are from a business perspective. These authors want you to collect cards and make as many "connections" as possible. But what are you really connecting to? How to Find Your Tribe in One Word - Liz Strauss at Successful B. Zentact Wants to Turn You Into A Super-Connector (Invites) There is something about great sales people or deal makers that is entirely social.
They are connectors, as Malcolm Gladwell calls them—people who know the interests, skills, and needs of everyone in their social or business circle and connects them together. If you are really good at this, like Sidney Weinberg (a legend who helped build Goldman Sachs), you are a super-connector. Zentact has the modest goal to help you become a super-connector.
It has a long way to go before it can do that. But it is starting with the kernel of something that is intriguing. Big House Library - 12/1/2008 - School Library Journal.