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| Aug 25, 2008 5:23 pm |
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re: re: Ways to Bungle, Flop or Botch Your Credibility While Networking Online |
Tim Flowers
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An observation: If you go to a Chamber of Commerce networking event, almost everyone you meet will politely and routinely ask you what you "do", and then proceed to hand you their business card. Most of them have no interest in you and are only there to promote their business. We know that when we go in the door and when we're approached at one of these events, we don't call the person a spammer and escort him to the exit.
If I'm out in public and someone hands me a brochure or business card, I don't report it as an assault. Yet in the online world, some people treat unsolicited emails as if they'd received a box of plutonium. (Personally, I just flag it as "junk" and roll on to the next one.)
Now, don't get me wrong: email spam and forum spam can get out of hand like kudzu growing on a fence, clogging networks and diminishing the value of everyone's work. I just wanted to share a different point of view; that accepted behavior in the "real world" can be viewed as something totally different when it makes the jump to the "online world".
Tim Flowers
http://www.incomepower.net
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