Young Professionals Meet for a Power Breakfast, but They Don't Call It Network... - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Oct 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  Nice article on the "new" social networking, with a special look at likemind meet-ups, the un-network.
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  "Likemind gatherings have no formal structure, no fees and typically no agenda. But participants exchange ideas, job tips and useful contacts, while also batting around ideas about technology, art, business and culture."

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  • Likemind gatherings have no formal structure, no fees and typically no agenda. But participants exchange ideas, job tips and useful contacts, while also batting around ideas about technology, art, business and culture.
  • Likemind caters to young professionals in advertising, media and design who are products of the age of personal blogs, warts-and-all YouTube videos and viral marketing. For them, the best pitch is the disguised pitch. Nothing, participants said, is more uncool than the hard-sell of traditional networking (which may explain why likemind is not capitalized).
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  • • In a sense, likemind gatherings are more like the networking-party equivalent of so-called “unconferences,” which arose as a rebuke to the staid $1,000-a-head industry gatherings. They are typically free informal retreats where people in the same field can engage in extended open-ended brainstorming sessions unified around a single theme.

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