|
|
|
|
|
|
by wwsculley
6329 days ago
|
|
|
I understand that the focus is/has been on the personal connections that people have. But my reservation about personal relationships alone is that the impetus to act on these relationships - to develop them into actual institutional connections - is inconsistent. In the past few months alone, friends/connections have contacted me because they were looking for a job or a way to develop their business and <i>just happened<i> to see my employer on LinkedIn, or incidentally saw that I had a connection-by-degrees with someone at another company they wanted to reach. These cases tell me that too many connections are purely incidental. I think an objective framework that could capture these potential connections. That said, what are the typical objective elements of the business-relationship process that can be identified without the need of human proactive declaration of business needs/offerings? What sort of characteristics would you include in an 'institutional profile' that would help other businesses understand the potential for a mutually beneficial connection? |
|
|
This is actually turning out to be a fairly fascinating/interesting topic. Have done some preliminary Google 'research'.
Using Agents as intermediaries for business connecting:
http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas08/proceedings/pdf/i...
Abstract only but some juicy bits:
http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?refe...
"VisiVenue is an online service helping business people find, connect, and interact with one another more efficiently and effectively - using scored profile matching that gives you a "short list" automatically" http://calendars.techvenue.com/VisiVenue/
And if you're thinking blue-sky (in terms of data access) - merge the physical tracking with online tracking (where people frequent online):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/technology/22proto.html