The Jade Connection

On Wednesday this week, Jacqui and I spent the day with Gill Davidson, my sister, and her family in Yorkshire. Gill is Group Company Secretary of the Skipton Building Society.

The Skipton Building Society is the largest shareholder of Jade Software, a significant software business in Christchurch, New Zealand.

So there we have it. Peter...Gill...Jade. The classic NZ network schema. Two degrees of separation and a connection is made.

Blogs v Social Networks

I Blog. I am also a member of two online Social Networks, LinkedIn and FaceBook.

Over the past few months, I have seen an interesting trend amongst the use of both 'channels' by people I know. Is this just a coincidence, or does it mark a more widespread shift in terms of online engagement?

Essentially, the move has been in favour of the Social Networks. This is particularly marked in the UK. Regular 'bloggers' have become almost obsessive 'social networkers'. I think in part this is down to the increasing number of interactive features and applications which have been created for these networks. Blogs, I suspect, are seen as being fairly passive, whilst social networks provide significant more opportunity for individual and group interaction.

From my point of view, I enjoy the benefits of both. For those familiar with this Blog therefore, I thank you for visiting and sharing my thoughts.

For those who would prefer to make more direct contact, then you can join my Social Networks via the following two links:

Peter's LinkedIn Profile
Peter's FaceBook Profile

To those, I look forward to meeting you soon.

LinkedIn to Martin

Social networks have many uses. Linkedin yesterday fulfilled one of them. They hooked me up with my cousin, Martin Wren-Hilton, back home in the UK.

It doesn't say much for my interpersonal skills, but that's distance for you. Staying in touch all the time can be difficult. It was good to see though that Martin is ahead of the game as always, this time at the cutting edge of mobile.

His titles, Head of Mobile Strategy at Carphone Warehouse and Head of Mobile Strategy at Opal Telecom, says it all. And so does his Linkedin Profile. As a neighbour in NZ might say, 'nice work, cousie 'bro".