UPDATES! - Must Read, August, 2009, Week 1

AUGUST, 2009, Week 1
UPDATE ISSUE 6 (New Format)
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Brand New Stuff:

It's August."So what?" you ask, in a skeptical, somewhat disrespectful tone. Better start watching for new stuff every single week in every single thrill-packed Newsletter:

THE NATIONAL NEWSPICKER will be making its arrival. It will have the capability of making you into a current events genius (and give you the appearance of being the smartest guy/ gal in the room) in return for an investment of just 20 minutes per day of your precious time.

THE NEW FORMAT with navigation tools so easy that your pet ferret will be able to use them will be going live. Unlike Internet Explorer 8 (which is a piece of crap) we will actually improve the quality of your media experience, and your ability to MONETIZE your KNOWLEDGE.

THE NEW SPECIAL ITEMS will be featured every week, if nobody gets a chance to edit them out first. If you promise not to tell, I'll give you a hint...





















You're not laughing now.


Immediate Items Which Are No Longer Immediate:

1. Featured TNNW Columnist Yossi Feigenson (of Real Estate and Other Things of Value) received an invitation from the publishers at the European Wall Street Journal for us to submit a first article from TNNW on the subject of networking, to be released in Europe. After much arm-twisting, Yossi agreed -- being a tough real estate negotiator (although his clients adore him), he felt a need for at least a sporting show of some arm-twisting.

The result is a wonderful article, titled "Business Networking: TEN ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES". It is a collaborative team effort by Douglas Castle, Yossi Feigenson and Adam J. Kovitz. It is an excellent distillation of some great unconventional wisdom, and it appears in this week's issue of THE NATIONAL NETWORKER Newsletter. If you are an impatient type of person, you can download (and even reprint) this article by clicking on http://twitlik.com/WSJArticle .


2. We at TNNW are absolutely delighted to have made the acquaintance of Dr. Franco Oboni, one of industry's and government's foremost experts on risk evaluation, assessment and mitigation. He is a consultant and lecturer to international and multinational firms, as well as The United Nations on identifying, analyzing and formulating strategies to navigate around virtually every type of business risk -- from terrorism, natural disasters, erosion, government instability, domestic insurrection, logistical safety, toxicity issues, quality control, mechanical failures, human error to the slightly less exotic aspects of shipping, credit and a host of others. He has correspondent offices throughout the world...including some of the most troublesome and dangerous areas.

He and his firm are actively engaged at present in a humanitarian de-mining project in Lao, PDR (one of the most heavily mine-laden countries on the planet, dating back to the Vietnam War). It will indeed be an honor and a privilege to have Dr. Oboni become one of TNNW's Featured Columnists.

Prepare yourselves! Get a bit of background information and professional insight into Dr. Oboni and his firms. Some links follow. I highly recommend looking at them all:

Franco Oboni www.riskope.com

Riskope Risk and Crisis Management Blog (newly-begun) http://foboni.wordpress.com/

www.slideshares.net/foboni

www.youtube.com/foboni

Franco's CDA/ESM slideshow has achieved the "most viewed" ranking for two consecutive days on Slideshare.net. Looks like his favorite subject is becoming very popular.

By the way, have a look at this particular video. I believe that you will find it informative and quite impressive, as well: http://www.slideshare.net/ELPACTOPRODUCCIONES/daqui30anos

We are delighted to have found a new friend in Franco. In addition to his expert writing, we are going to have Adam J. Kovitz use his indisputable charm to have Franco become actively engaged in our INTERNATIONAL AGENT/ DISTRIBUTOR SERVICE very soon.


3. A week ago, I invested a good portion of the afternoon in learning about the art and science of constructing meaningful questionnaires, polls, surveys, market research focus groups and gathering (and profitably utilizing) market intelligence from Mr. Scott R. Gingold, a veteran pollster and industry consultant and the Founding Principal of both Powerfeedback (http://www.powerfeedback.com/) and Confidential Counselor (http://www.confidentialcounsellor.com/).

In addition to getting some fabulous feeds from Scott, who is quite active as an author and as a Twitter contributor, we are in the process of exploring a strategic co-venture whereby we can integrate some of our PUBLIC RELATIONS SERVICES and our TNNW SURVEYS Product with Scott's two organizations. We know how much our readers enjoy finding out about what other people are thinking, so we will be generating more surveys and publishing more results.

More importantly, with the addition of Scott's expertise, we expect to give our Members access to the research and analytical intelligence necessary to grow their businesses and plot any changes in course to stay ahead of the competitive curve.

It was wonderful to meet with you, Scott.


Coming This Month!:

Aside from the results of TNNW Surveys #88 and #89 (which will be published in separate Special Editions) which you can review to refresh your recall of the subject matter at http://TheNationalNetworkerSurveys.blogspot.com, we have a bullet series of goodies headed your way. Incidentally, if you should have ideas for surveys which you would like for us to design, publicize, analyze and use for your branding advantage, go to the Survey Site! As promised, here are the bullet points:

• High-Utility Killer Content



• Sharp New Look and Super-Simplified Navigation and Access



• The World's Best Suite of Member Services*



• Some Brilliant New Writers



• Direct Professional Introductions



• The Ultimate Intelligence Source - THE NATIONAL NEWSPICKER**



• TNNW BUZZWORKS - Our SWAT Team Becomes Available to YOU***

*Imagine These MEMBER SERVICES, Bundled for Optimal Efficiency:

• Complete Public Relations, Publicity and Press Releases;



• Financing! - For Ventures, Acquisitions, Development Projects, Operations, Purchase Orders, International Trade and Growth...Credit Insurance;



• International Agent/ Distributor Service - Go Global Instantly and Inexpensively;



• Targeted Multimedia Advertising for You, Your Organization and Your Services, Publications and Products;



• Custom Surveys and Market Research Packages.

Q: How did you live without this stuff?

**Imagine This One, Amazing, Time-Saving Resource: THE NATIONAL NEWSPICKER. One source of distilled business intelligence from over 25 of the world's most credible and authoritative sources. Twenty minutes of reading. Knowing it all. Being informed. Sounding lethally intelligent. Being more efficient, effective, powerful and valuable. Increase your Relationship Capital (Adam J. Kovitz is the Avatar of Relationship Capital, by the way). Also: We invite our Subscribers and Members to rename this thing. Please.

Q: How did you live without this stuff? (We're asking again!)



***Imagine This Kind of Artillery, Working for You: TNNW BUZZWORKS, giving you visibility, credibility, image, identity and a constant presence across all e-media. Full saturation marketing.


KNOWLEDGE + APPLICATION = POWER.


For more information, please visit TNNW Bio for Douglas Castle.

We will make you glad that you joined us and became a part of our growing, interactive international community. And of course, they'll be plenty of buttons...





With our Commitment of Great Things to Come,

Adam J. Kovitz and Douglas Castle (who is not quite as important as Adam J. Kovitz)




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UPDATES! - Must Read, August, 2009, Week 1

SENDING SIGNALS: Social Meteor Threatens the Earth

Dear Readers:

I owe you an apology. I have changed the name of my column to SENDING SIGNALS. The previous title, "The Re-Humanization of Networking," although brilliantly ambitious and possessing of a deep reformist social agenda and spiritual significance, was just too long and boring. It was so boring, in fact, that I kept forgetting it myself. The other problem was that I don't write about Networking. I view networking (per se) as a miserable chore, but as a necessary first step in the process of relationship-building and facilitating commerce. I try to avoid most networking events (unless a terrific dinner is being served, and there are real plates and silverware - if I see any plastic sporks, I feign a seizure or an attack of spontaneous Tourette's, and get out (sometimes in an ambulance!).

So the column is now officially title SENDING SIGNALS, and it will only remotely relate to networking. My guess (which is at least as good as yours) is that it will have to do with COMMUNICATION and PERSONALIZING RELATIONSHIPS . I do both.

It will also have to so with such exciting and arcane subjects as body language, subliminal messaging, hypnosis, NLP, speaking effectively and everything else that pertains to getting noticed, getting attention, publicity, image-building, being different than every grinning ninny with a business card, and, ultimately, turning conversation into commerce. Adam J. Kovitz, the Father of Relationship Capital [all rise!], says that repetition is important, so I'll say it again: TURN CONVERSATION INTO COMMERCE!

A quick and frightening fact --- on Twitter, and on the average, more than 1 in 4 postings (and growing) is something relating to:

1. Getting more followers on Twitter;

2. Applications using Twitter;

3. Applications linking Twitter and other Social Media;

4. Get-Rich-Quick opportunities (that can never, ever work);

5. Ladies who want me to go to their private website to see them on webcam.

As I've said before, on every social media channel the signal-to-noise ratio is shrinking. To glean a bit of useful or interesting information, you have to cull through a mountain of useless crap. And this process of "panning for gold" is becoming increasingly time-consuming. I think our society, and its possibilities for commerce and friendly interaction is due to be wiped out by a giant SOCIAL METEOR heading toward our planet at an amazing velocity.

We are so inundated with noise that the greatest challenge is to get noticed. The next challenge is to be memorable. The next challenge is to create a bond - a relationship. The next challenge is to make commerce happen. And the last challenge is to make it happen over and over again.

I'd forgotten what I had wanted to write about. Anyway, I have to get going... I left some stuff on the barbecue grill, and I hear fire sirens in the distance. Well done, anyone?

I'll be back soon.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

p.s. If you really want an article, there's one below:
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THIS TREASURE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN DOUGLAS CASTLE'S BLOG,@ http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/, which you should read immediately after your bible study. Also, if you are not currently a subscriber to THE NATIONAL NETWORKER Newsletter (which is free), you may salvage your position in in my pantheon of pals by subscribing right now at http://twitlik.com/OK ------------

WHAT IS DOUGLAS DOING? AND WHO CARES?

Dear Friends:

Yahoo!, jumping on the bandwagon of social media, has taken to asking me the same stupid question that every other social medium (or is it "media?") insists on asking..."What are you doing now?" They even try to help me out by starting the response box off with, "Douglas is.....", so that I don't have to struggle with the spelling of my own name. Sometimes I inadvertently add an extra "s" at the end (as in "Frederick Douglass"), which is silent, like the "p" on swimming.

My latest response to Yahoo! was:

Douglas Castle updated his status to Douglas is inundated with crappy "functionalities" being added to his browser and programs by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.
Status Updates.

While I am interested in what I am doing (some of the time, anyway), I cannot understand why anyone else would be interested. What if I were just shaving, or trimming my toenails? These are not interesting things. Then again, if I were Johnny Depp, these would be headliners.

In the future, I am thinking of inventing interesting things like:

• playing bocce in the nude on my neighbor's lawn;
• burning ants on a sunny afternoon with my magnifying glass;
• pulling a dead tapeworm, segment by segment, out of a horse's anus;
• barbecuing a rat;
• singing into my wife's hairbrush;
• passing a kidney stone;
• memorizing Pi to one hundred decimal places;
• sending resumes to the Vatican for a position as one of the Pope's guards;
• watching reruns of "The Fugitive";
• paying my bills with IOUs drawn on the State of California;
• hitting a hornets' nest with a short stickball bat;
• giving my neighbor's Siamese cat Viagra;
• tracking down the source of a bad smell in my root cellar;
• getting a tattoo on my buttocks.

I'm open to suggestions. Keep watching.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

*Follow DOUGLAS CASTLE on TWITTER - http://twitter.com/douglascastle
*Follow DOUGLAS CASTLE on THE NATIONAL NETWORKER - http://twitter.com/TNNW_BUZZWORKS

****Blogs to visit:
http://Braintenance.blogspot.com
http://theglobalfuturist.blogspot.com/
http://TheInternationalistPage.blogspot.com
http://humanitasmaximus.blogspot.com/
http://douglascastleiep.blogspot.com/
http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/
http://SrMeetUp.blogspot.com

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SENDING SIGNALS: Social Meteor Threatens the Earth

Peter Biadasz radio interview, Houston, Texas

Peter Biadasz radio interview in Houston, Texas today. Noon-12:15 CST on CNN 650 AM. Listen on the internet at www.CNN650.com. This is Houston’s only show dedicated to business and networking! Hosted by R.D. Yoder.

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Peter Biadasz radio interview, Houston, Texas