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Internet knowledge trading

LinkedIn has become a phenomenon in only two years. While I am addicted to reading stories of how people succeed, much as their resumes tell the world, I feel they all need more meat. Resumes, reported stories in general put up stories together from someone else's perspective which could be entirely ture, but they seem to lack the emotion. How to get busy people like them to tell their stories? Magazines, TVs, Interviews: these are the media who make them talk. But again, it will come out of other's mouth or pen, or simple Q&A that need context and emotion. Then there comes the autobiography. Obviously not many successful people have the time and energy or talent to write.

Then what?

If you want to know someone, get into their life to see how they live their everyday moments. It's those moments linked together for a glorious endings.

How these are related to knowledge sharing and trading?

Much!

I ever worked for a startup company in 2000 summer as a product marketing intern. That company hoped to create a killer b2b marketplace so that corporate buyers could buy exactly the right stuff at right price, by consulting with industry leading experts before making purchasing decision. After seeing "expert recruiting" process took forever and not seeing the incentives for them, I quickly lost belief in that business model: they went belly up of course.

If we want people talk, make them talk to their interest and life, not stuff that we want.

Bill Gates maybe the busiest person in the world? Besides being geekywhat else does he think? He must have other interests. I am sure he is interested in bringing up his daughter in a best environments possible. I am sure he wants to stay healthy. And I am sure he wants every family in the world uses microsoft. So these are things he might be interested in talking. Let's get in his mind...Of course people like him or Tom Cruise maybe an extreme for knowledge trading to be ever working. But you got the idea...

Everyone has a life or need a life. Listen to their voice for life, make them talk about life they will forget their celebrityhood or experthood: that's when they start to talk. That's when information starts to flow at the right time with right trading partner.

Stay tuned for more on life knolwedge trading...

posted by Road less travelled @ 4:21 PM