2006 December | Nate Ritter

Dec 29

Are you a Social Broker?

Posted by nate within Business, Community, General, Leadership

party red background

Ah, Christmas time.

Quite a few Christmas’s ago, I was deep into my friendships and shallow into my family. I decided to have a Christmas party and wanted to include all of my friends in the bash. At the time, I wasn’t phased by the boundaries or ties separating and tying my networks of friends. I invited all of my friends, from all different landscapes of my life together for one evening.

I give credit to my friends for how well the party went off. People merged and mingled without much friction. Ties were created. Barriers were broken. Life and opportunity for everyone improved. I had no idea I would be reflecting on that party years later as a pivotal point in understanding social networks.

Pan out

You’re part of many social networks, both online and off. We all are. Each of us plays a roll in those networks - many times different roles for different networks. The roll you play may not be a roll appointed to you. But, are you a “social broker”?

According to the general theory, you and I would benefit the greatest by being involved a social network which is broad, and has wider connections rather than being focused on a niche and knowing all the same people.

But, to have a broad and growing social network, we need to bring in new people with various interests and ideas.

Are you expanding your network by being a social broker?

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Dec 27

How to Become a “Normy”

Posted by nate within Community, General, Leadership

Eric Allam, of 52 Reviews, terms the average person a “Normy”. According to he and his brother, you can be one too. Here’s how:

Only take one job
When/if you get married, have your wife take one job
Shop, spend, and rack up debt
Buy a home and make that your only major investment
Keep up with your [...]

Dec 22

How to Get Funding as a Young Entrepreneur

Posted by nate within Business, General, Leadership

Like many of you, I’ve been reading a ton of entrepreneur blogs these past few months. I’ve also been reading a lot of financial blogs and brushing up on my financial management textbooks from college. But, there’s always something missing in both of these topics. Funding.
I’m not talking about where [...]

Dec 20

Daily Del.icio.us

Posted by nate within LinkLogs

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Packet Loss | GoodStorm.com (T-shirts) —
Watch this store for some good t-shirts in the future. Each one will be personally worn by me. Feel free be a follower and buy one for yourself. Profits will be used to help the homeless in and around San Diego
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Dec 20

My Eventful and Getting Social

Posted by nate within Business, Community, General

If you hadn’t noticed yet, we released My Eventful today. There’s still some minor things to clear up, but overall, I think it’s a nice step in the right direction - both in design and functionality.
While looking around, I noticed the Community Next conference at Stanford on Feb 10th. It looks like [...]

Dec 19

How Images Next to Adsense Will Get You Banned

Posted by nate within Business, General, Projects

I’m not sure how I didn’t catch this yesterday, but the the adsense blog peeps clarified their policy of related images next to adsense ads. The image to the left is an example of what is not allowed.
Why is this a big deal? Well, my most recent side project uses the [...]

Dec 18