March 26, 2011

Are you an Explorer or a Map Maker?

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Shameless self-promotion.  LinkedIn hit the 100 million member mark in March 2011 and CEO Reid Hoffman sent a personal email to the first 100,000 joiners suggesting that this group laid the foundations for its exponential growth several tears later, the super connectors who heavily influence the success or failure of the network.  I was joiner number 5,471. 

Those early days in social media were a lot of fun but an interesting mathematician called G.H. Hardy once said: “When the map-makers arrive, you know the real explorers have already moved on”.

Are you an explorer or a map maker?

 

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26 Mar 2011 09:55:38 | Community, Social Networks, Social Software, SocialMedia

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