Shailesh Ghimire on February 23rd, 2009

Seth Godin says it like it is in this video. Seriously though, if you think about it, networking whether online or offline has never been about who collects the most business cards, Facebook friends or Twitter followers. It’s always been about helping people and finding a way to contribute to others in a way that [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on January 23rd, 2009

In terms of worldwide audience Facebook is now king. I guess MySpace is still the largest in the USA:
In November 2008 Facebook drew 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet that month visited the site. When sites are that big growth generally stagnates, but in Facebook’s case [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on September 29th, 2008

It’s not what you know, but who you know. And now Google wants to rank you based on who you know and how influential you are with them. Not everyone is equal. This is especially true in social networking sites. Where some are definitely more equal than others. They have more friends, they participate in [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on August 28th, 2008

CEO’s can blog too. Even CEO’s of large multi-national corporations with global name brand recognition and revenue comparable to small nations. And in many ways blogging is a lot more effective when the person at the top of the organization starts to engage people on the web. Not only will there be a positive impact [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on August 1st, 2008

Except for LinkedIn, more women are on social networks than men. That is according to data released by RapLeaf, an online reputation management company based in San Francisco. I had a hunch about this phenomenon a while back when I started hearing of mommy bloggers, but I had not seen data to back it up. [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on July 31st, 2008

To counter the argument that some people are simply too busy to blog, I wanted to highlight a particularly high profile individual who happens to prolifically blog. He is the current Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt.
Recently he has been blogging about his trip to the Yakutat Tingit Clinic in Alaska and it’s [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on July 15th, 2008

I saw an interesting article today on STLToday.Com on how social networking sites may be competing with high school class reunions. A very interesting phenomenon indeed because I can personally relate to the feelings described in the article. Ever since I’ve been on Facebook I’ve connected with a lot of my former classmates (both high [...]

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