Kiwi ScrumPersonal ServicesBusiness ServicesOpen Networkers, are people who take upon themselves the burden of maintaining contact with a large number of people. Generally Open Networkers are happy to accept a connection to all those who ask. Many Open Networkers cannot ask you to join their networks because they have already exceeded the "lifetime Limit" of invitations that LinkedIn has set.
Open Networkers are not obliged to accept your invitation, they retain the right to refuse invitations, but they seldom do. Generally if you invite an Open Networker to join your network in a polite way, they will happily accept your invitation. Check the profiles of all the people below and see how many of them you should connect with.
Most Open Networkers have a reason for building a super-large network. In my own case I was a person with lots of experience in online networking arising from my work on NZ Dances, between 1995 and 2000. There were over 700 people involved in that network.
The opening of LinkedIn (2004) was for me a key opportunity to build a large network that would be useful both to me and to the NZ business community. At first it was slow hard work. My current first level network is over 8200, including only 456 New Zealanders. (There are over 1500 in Kiwi Scrum) New Zealanders are NOT well connected to each other. Kiwi Scrum is one small effort to help change that. (I estimate that about 45,500 New Zealanders are LinkedIn members, most of them with less than 5 connections. You can't find them, because they are not "linkedin".)
Regards
John
Every member of Kiwi Scrum should take advantage of the opportunity to connect to all of these people. That will give you a well connected base. Just ask in a polite way. Then build your network in two entirely different ways. Look for people who specialize in the same things as you, and look for people who live in your local area. Help other people. Make a special effort to mop up the ones who only have a few connections. Should they join Kiwi Scrum?
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