Filed under Life, Work by Miguel on 2010/06/29 at 07:32
no comments
And I’m not (only) talking about facebook, hi5, myspace, orkut etc. No in this case i really mean all kinds of social networks especially the “real” ones – they have an immense value and the influence you have on your friends and the influence they have on you is just enormous.
I decided to write this post after watching a TED Talk called “Nicholas Christakis: The hiddeninfluence of social networs” at lunch. In his talk Mr. Nicholas Christakis explains how he researched and studied social network and the various influences that they have on human behavior.
Despite being obvious that your friends have influence on you and vice-versa i was quite impressed by the “numbers” as he states that the influence not only huge but that it goes through you and it is passed on to your friends, their friends and so on. Ok that was confusing let me be more clear: A – is a “big person” he/she influences you and you will influence C who is your friend but does not even know A and more… that C will influence D who you don not know at all. In this case the influence may be direct: “Let’s go eat a Super-Giga-Enormous McMenu” or indirect in a way that it affects the “acceptable body size” of a person.
The extent of the influence is i must say quite amazing as A does influence many levels of the social graph. This means that persons that don’t know each other have influence on each other up to many levels of “separation”.
The value of social network is immense and one should have a “good one” as persons who are at the edges of the social graphs (who have less friends) tens to be unhappier. Or maybe it could be the other way around … maybe they have less friends because they are unhappy persons.
The point is that persons with a good social network tend to be happier and I dare to say that probably they’ll be more successful socially and professionally too. My last piece of advice would be value your friends, relatives and grow a strong social network.
What about you, what is your opinion on this topic?
Thank you for reading this article. Please feel free to leave a comment or contact me.
Filed under Other by Miguel on 2010/06/13 at 16:54
no comments
Inspire is hard, to change the world is an ambitious goal but yet some of us dare to dream about it and go for the fight. For those of you who are willing to make a difference in this small blue dot in the middle of the universe that we decided to call home – here are some interesting tips:
- If you’re the guy starting a movement and you’re the first to do it – the so called “Lone Nut”. Remember to treat your first followers as equals.
- Leadership is over-glorified – if you are the first you will get all the credit! But the tipping point was when the first follower came along and invited all his friends.
- Have the courage to follow a “lone nut” and to be one.
- And last but not least – believe in what you preach!
This article was based in this video:
link
Thank you for reading this article. Please feel free to leave a comment or contact me.
Filed under Life by Miguel on 2010/06/13 at 16:20
no comments
Estava agora mesmo para postar mais um video que vi agora mesmo – mas depois pensei e tive medo de tornar o meu blog numa espécie de colecção de TED’s e vídeos favoritos. Pelo que decidi não fazer embed do video mas simplesmente deixar um link – “The emotion behind invention“.
O “problema”, se é que pode ser considerado um problema, é que depois ver um speech fantastico como muitos dos TEDs são fico com alguma dificuldade em parar e dou por mim a ver uns 3, 4, 5 ou mais vídeos seguidos. Bem de qualquer forma aqui fica o link:
TED.comThank you for reading this article. Please feel free to leave a comment or contact me.
Filed under Other by Miguel on 2009/02/24 at 10:17
one comment
Bem …. antes de mais quero agradecer tanto ao Sr Eng Tiago Matos como ao Sr Eng Simão Soares por me terem iniciado ao mundo dos TED Talks. 
Apesar de isto ter acontecido há “algum” tempo, só nos últimos meses é que lhes tenho dado o devido valor. Vi filmes sobre coisas interessantíssimas que me fascinaram e descobri pessoas fenomenais.
Para quem não conhece os “TED Talks” ou “Ted : Ideas worth spreading” (o que em portugês dá algo como “Ideias que merecem ser espalhadas) onde o TED significa – Technology, Entertainment, Design são umas conferências que existem desde 1984 e que, muito resumidamente, juntam das pessoas mais interessantes de diversas areas. Assim podem encontrar videos sobre um homem que passou 1 ano da sua vida a viver segundo as leis da biblia, outro que não falou durante 17 ou + anos, animadores, cientistas loucos que parecem terem saido de um filme, artistas e muito mais.
Assim convido-vos a darem uma visita:
O ultimo “episódio” que vi fala sobre animação do filme “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” (8.1/10 no IMBD) – filme que ainda não tive a oportunidade de ver mas deve estar para breve. Para quem já viu …. faziam ideia que durante a primeira hora do filme, a cara do Brad é na realidade uma animação informática!?
Fico a espera duns comments, beijos e abraços para todos
Thank you for reading this article. Please feel free to leave a comment or contact me.
