Social Networking 2.0: Are You Part of the Future or Past?
July 3, 2009 – 6:47 pmMost social networking talks that I’ve attended amounted to nothing more than a corporate version of group therapy. That, or a client grab. Either it becomes the imbalanced by an overabundance of the feminine aspect, where too much energy is wasted in inappropriate disclosure and endless emotional mining; or imbalanced by too much of the masculine aspect, where heated debate intends to “win” friends through their blustering influence. The inaugural meeting of the Pittsburgh Greenlight Community comprised an intimate cadre of entrepreneurial mustangs who will broker in the 2.0 era. Anyone experienced with professional gatherings and civic clubs, you feel relieved at the distinct lack of fuddy-duddy parochialism which so often degenerate into dueling monologues. Also absent was the sticky-sweet therapeutic temperature which can make you feel nauseated at best, if not emotionally violated by the lack of consensus ambition. In Pitt GC, it was all-go no-show; no posturing, no pandering. Just ...
