i have given a talk many times on the value of soft assets (connections, knowledge, and reputation).
i gave the talk again last night to SD Forum (that Chris Yeh moderated) and many people emailed me for a copy of the slides. here they are attached …
I attended the networking talk Auren gave and wrote up some notes on my blog:
http://www.bretterrill.com/2007/04/five-networking-tips-from-secrets-of.html
Good stuff, Auren.
This is a very interesting presentation (as is the rest of your excellent blog, by the way). But there are some things that aren’t clear from the power point. Connect down not up? Embrace chaos? Your mother?
By the way, I suspect if you turned this presentation into a book you’d find many a willing publisher.