Socially ILL
My Confession In the fall of last year, I tried to combine advocating awareness to a social epidemic that I am passionate about with my actual consulting work. At the heart of both is a promotion of relationship building and social awareness. So in a tongue in cheek way meant to inspire conversation, I named the joint project/business SocialBling. Considering how our culture only seems to want to talk about material things (bling) I thought I would promote relationships as an over-indulgent luxury. Everyone told me it was ridiculous ambitious. They were right, but I don’t have a fear of...
Read MoreSocialBling: Our Plans for 2010 and How They Benefit You.
Happy New Year to you! We hope it is off to great start. When we created SocialBling, we did it under the two premises: If dating and finding new business opportunities (new job and/or customer) are at opposite ends as to why people need to network, can we create a more mutually beneficial network by focusing less on the differences of those two ends and by finding mutual ground in the middle? (I.e. goals, hobbies, interests, information exchanges, etc) If we pre-screened and introduced people based on best attributes and information that is important to them yet sometimes hard to reveal...
Read MoreConnecting is Better than Networking.
There is difference between connecting and networking. If you don’t believe me reflect on how you feel when you experience each one. The networking experience might bring up thoughts of events where you sport the infamous “Hello my name is” sticker while trying to figure out what you need to say to whom, carefully avoiding people who seem determined to sell you something on approach. A connecting experience might bring up thoughts of moments when you knew someone understood you, where you felt comfortable to trust and forge a relationship with them. Another difference between the two might...
Read MoreWhy SocialBling, Why Now?
There is a long list of really important words and phrases that seem to be frowned upon – Commitment, Relationship, “We Need to Talk” and “It Is Not Working” comes to mind. These words bring fear to most yet without them there is not much that would get accomplished. Could you actually achieve a goal without speaking a single word? Could a plan be carried out with commitment? Can you learn what works without exploring what does not? Relationships and the words we use to create and keep them are as important as the air we breathe. Is that an intimidating statement, sure it is. Does it have to...
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