This “connection technologies” space is moving at a rapid rate of knots and I am going to do my utmost to make sense of it to myself and the world.

Which reminds me about my post this week about “the art of cross-posting” after the latest “kid-on-the-block” of connection technologies, Foursquare, is starting to become prevalent across more mature social networks like Facebook and Twitter. I’d be interested in your thoughts – our community has some great comments worth reading too.

See the post here: http://hollingsworth.posterous.com/foursquaretwitterfacebooklinkedin-cross-post

Cheers,
Tony Hollingsworth

Love this! We all need to keep reminding ourselves that sometimes we need to scratch deeper than the connection and check out underneath which connections need to be nurtured to a relationship. I think that it is also important to regularly revisit connections and relationships as we move through life. As we all grow in different directions and at different rates connections can become relationships and vise verse. Importantly they can be transient and move between the two states depending on we are on our journey. It was truly lovely to catch-up. I have found and am now following you on twitter but I so have my training wheels still on this.

Cheers, Larissa

@Robin – I would love to catch up with you to discuss this further – I believe relationships are the key to getting the best out of this world!

@Chris – I came back with a few other ideas on how to make such a trip more widely advertised in the future – for the most part I kept the announcements to Twitter only! Oh and there’s likely to be a next time

Thanks for sharing your travels and your insights. I’m fascinated by the distinction between connections and relationships. Your post gives a clear demonstration of how the power of connections is in breadth, and the power of relationships is in depth.

Implicit in your post is also the idea that not every connection will develop into a relationship. And given that it has never been easier to “collect connections” – 100′s, even 1000′s of ‘followers’ & ‘friends’ – it will be increasingly important for us to think through who will stay as a connection, and who will become a relationship – especially in a business context. Call it a ‘connection > relationship’ strategy, for want of a better term.

I would love to discuss these thoughts with you, Andrew.

Best to you and the readers of this excellent blog.

Robin

Another great post – more power to you for harnessing online technology to connect the world.

Cheers mate, Iggy