The unexplored opportunity of social is to help people, teams, and businesses operating as a collective unit make connections and keep promises.
Don't collect, connect
This is true of data, of relationships, and of knowledge.
100 ways to connect to get you started:
- make things happen
- welcome relationships
- suspend judgment
- create experiences
- use multimedia for learners and readers with different styles/preferences
- use your content to elevate others
- be helpful
- show you care
- introduce peers
- tell stories
- help readers rock
- listen and ask questions
- stay humble
- keep learning
- participate fully
- accept
- take responsibility
- resist copying
- liberate your inner fan
- transform your attitude
- challenge your assumptions
- think community
- collaborate freely
- develop opportunity
- stay passionate
- be honest (especially with yourself)
- be willing to change your mind
- provide a platform for others to find people with like interests
- build interactions
- stay curious
- stay offline when you're tired or argumentative
- dream, think, do
- facilitate conversations
- build prototypes
- invent possibilities
- use engagement to accelerate learning
- brag about your fans' products and services
- evangelize your employees
- observe more, judge less
- learn to read the social triggers that make stuff happen
- be more transparent
- choose teaching over winning
- open communication lines
- prefer open understanding
- keep your promises
- go the extra mile for someone else
- laugh more, especially about yourself
- be courageous
- stay with it through thick and thin
- tell stories
- respect privacy
- find a cause
- be original
- celebrate common traits
- want less, do more
- become the person you'd like to be
- stay soft on people, hard on issues
- appreciate small gestures, they are a big deal
- communicate more
- amaze yourself
- recognize talent
- take more walks
- take the high road
- discover and highlight worthy projects
- understand the power of silence
- stay hungry
- thank often and liberally
- be patient
- encourage exploration
- make your writing a work of art
- find mentors
- practice what you preach
- be flexible
- adopt and credit good ideas
- break down elitist walls
- step out of formulas
- reinvent joy
- earn your stripes
- face your responsibilities
- recognize and celebrate differences
- learn to think with your own experience
- invest in building something
- appreciate success is several years in the making
- know your values
- work with others
- make someone's day
- put people first
- read more, react less
- know your limits
- find inspiration
- experiment
- adjust
- be ready to be surprised
- get to know your peers
- inspire and find inspiration
- know you make a difference
- forget the numbers, you count
- let others opt in
- set a good example
- raise your industry, community, readers
The highly connective people, the "power networkers", are not those who mastered the tools, those who make perfect and know all the answers.
They're those who elevate others.
When you know why you're connecting, you benefit as well.
How do you connect? Has it changed over time?
[updated from archives]
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Valeria is an experienced listener. She is also frequent speaker at conferences and companies on a variety of topics. To book her for a speaking engagement click here.