Social Networking: Brazil ranks 2nd after Russia

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Russia has World’s Most Engaged Social Networking Audience

Vkontakte.ru Ranks as Most Popular Social Networking Site in Russia with 14 Million Visitors

LONDON, U.K., July 2, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of the social networking category in Russia, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The study found Russia to have the world’s most engaged social networking audience, with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month.

Two-Thirds of Global Internet Users Access Social Networking Sites

Of the 1.1 billion people age 15 and older worldwide who accessed the Internet from a home or work location in May 2009, 734.2 million visited at least one social networking site during the month, representing a penetration of 65 percent of the worldwide Internet audience. The Russian social networking audience had the highest engagement among the 40 individual countries reported by comScore, with an average of 6.6 hours and 1,307 pages consumed per visitor. Brazil ranked close behind at 6.3 hours, followed by Canada (5.6 hours), Puerto Rico (5.3 hours) and Spain (5.3 hours).

“Social networking has become a popular online pastime not only in mature Internet markets like North America, but also in developing, high-growth Internet markets such as Russia,” said Mike Read, SVP & managing director, comScore Europe. “In a country as geographically large as Russia, social networking represents a way of connecting people from one corner of the country to the other. The highly engaged behavior of social networkers in Russia offers significant opportunity for marketers and advertisers seeking to reach these audiences.”

Top 20 Highest Engagement Social Networking Country Audiences Ranked by Average Hours per Visitor* May 2009 Total Worldwide, Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix
Country	Average Hours per Visitor	Average Pages per Visitor
World-Wide	3.7	525
Russia	6.6	1,307
Brazil	6.3	1,220
Canada	5.6	649
Puerto Rico	5.3	587
Spain	5.3	968
Finland	4.7	919
United Kingdom	4.6	487
Germany	4.5	793
United States	4.2	477
Colombia	4.1	473
Mexico	4.0	488
Chile	4.0	418
Ireland	3.8	462
Turkey	3.7	427
Venezuela	3.7	454
France	3.6	526
Australia	3.4	374
New Zealand	3.4	386
Switzerland	3.2	430
Italy	3.2	399

*Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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About comScore
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comScore, Inc.
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worldpress@comscore.com

Estratégia Redes Sociais? (Port)

Estrategia Redes Sociais

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Redes Sociais na Mídia (Port)

Membro da TEN - Top Executives Net e participante ativa do TEN Happy-Hour Curitiba, Ana Paula de Carvalho escreveu um artigo bem conciso e acurado sobre as oportunidades que as redes sociais oferecem aos profissionais digitais: "Saiba como as redes sociais podem impulsionar a carreira e os negócios". Vale a pena refletir sobre esse novo cenário.

10 Tips for TEN Happy-Hours

We have been organizing TEN Happy-Hours (photos) in Brazil for almost one year now. We have experienced it 10 editions in Rio de Janeiro, 1 edition in São Paulo and will launch it in Curitiba within this week.

We have noticed that only a few professionals really understand and benefit from these opportunities. Perhaps, it´s lack of proper awareness of what is really going on. So, in order to help you to maximize on your joining us, we decided to write down some simple tips. If everybody follow them and always bring value to all participants, we will enjoy a great experience together.


Before TEN Happy-Hour
1. Join TEN - Top Executives Net and register online for the specific TEN Happy-Hour
2. Complete your profile with photo
3. Send the invitation to your peers (be selective)
4. Bring at least one person (we recommend to bring a happy client or business partner, who can tell others how good you are in what you do - indirect sell)
5. Post one video on TEN about your work or something you really love. You will appear on TEN´s home page. This simple fact will increase your visibility before members and visitors.

During TEN Happy-Hour
6. Be yourself, open and friendly. Approach people naturally.
7. Introduce yourself and your friends while exchanging business cards (Yes, bring business cards with you, of course) . You may even mention your video on TEN.
8. Spend in average 10 minutes with one new contact as time flies very fast during the event. You are just ice-breaking. You will neither sell/buy anything nor get a new job there.

1 day After TEN Happy-Hour
9. Go to the presence list and send a kind note to all attendees. Some of them you talked in person. Others, you can schedule a later talk or just meet next time. This simple fact will make members visit your profile and think of business ideas with you.
10. Spread TEN´s traditional thank you note to your peers and invite them to register on TEN and be aware of our upcoming TEN Happy-Hour calendar.


As one can easily see, it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere. It´s a just a matter of experiencing a new approach to life and develop healthier habits.

May God bless your life and business!

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Twitter: New & Serious Beginning

There is so much being said about Twitter recently everywhere that I decided to that start a serious begining there. This graph below shows that, from this weekend onwards, I am applying a new methodology in order to grow much quicker my presence inside Twitter. So far so good as I managed to increase 233 new contacts, i.e., I basically doubled the size of my network in the last 24 hours.

The main way to make this effort tangible is to measure a serious increase in the attraction and participation of people inside TEN and mainly concerning TEN Happy-Hours. Let´s see what kind of audience is hidden inside Twitter. I will keep you posted on my outcome in this sense.

Poll: Will you come to TEN Happy-Hour?

Please answer it via Social Too

1. 10th TEN Happy-Hour in Rio on Jun 16th
2. 1st TEN Happy-Hour in Sampa on Jun 24th
3. 1st TEN Happy-Hour in Curitiba on Jul 02nd
4. Two of them
5. All of them

If positive, please email full names to contact@topexecutivesnet.com mentioning the event(s) you and your friends will attend.

Thanks in advance,


Octavio Pitaluga
TEN - Top Executives Net
CNO - Chief Networking Officer

Entrevista: Folha Universitária (UNIBAN)

Fomos entrevistados pela Folha Universitária da Uniban recentemente sobre o tema de Redes Sociais. Eis abaixo nossa modesta e sumarizada contribuição.

Expert em redes sociais

Octavio Pitaluga Neto soube utilizar o LinkedIn com sabedoria. Seu primeiro contato com o portal foi em 2004, a convite de um colega de MBA. Pitaluga achou que seria mais um site para disponibilizar seu currículo, porém, num dia muito chuvoso, daqueles que não se pode nem colocar o pé na rua, começou a navegar pelo portal e logo percebeu que estava diante de algo com um potencial muito grande. Não demorou para que ele se tornasse um dos primeiros brasileiros a se cadastrar e também fosse um dos usuários com o maior número de contatos no portal (hoje já passam de 23 mil pessoas em sua rede).

E sabe por que a grande quantidade de contatos? Pitaluga explica: “É importante inicialmente ter um volume de pessoas. Aí você mostra que tem algo pra trocar”. Ele teve tanto a oferecer que se tornou um especialista em redes sociais. Criou sua própria comunidade de negócios online, a TEN - Top Executives Net, cujo foco é acelerar as negociações entre seus membros em todo o mundo, que é referência entre executivos e profissionais de alto escalão.

Com base em sua experiência, Pitaluga ensina como usar bem os sites de relacionamento profissional. “Tem muita gente que usa o networking pra ficar pedindo coisas, emprego, pra apresentar alguém. Só que o mais importante é você ter muito claras suas metas e não usar a rede de forma predatória e oportunística, mas sim de forma a construir riqueza para todos os seus membros”, conclui.

Leiam o artigo na íntegra

New Twitter Research from Harvard Business.org

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets

from HarvardBusiness.org by Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski

Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter’s purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool?

We examined the activity of a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to find out how people are using the service. We then compared our findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. Our findings are very surprising.

Of our sample (300,542 users, collected in May 2009), 80% are followed by or follow at least one user. By comparison, only 60 to 65% of other online social networks’ members had at least one friend (when these networks were at a similar level of development). This suggests that actual users (as opposed to the media at large) understand how Twitter works.

Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women. Men also have more reciprocated relationships, in which two users follow each other. This “follower split” suggests that women are driven less by followers than men, or have more stringent thresholds for reciprocating relationships. This is intriguing, especially given that females hold a slight majority on Twitter: we found that men comprise 45% of Twitter users, while women represent 55%. To get this figure, we cross-referenced users’ “real names” against a database of 40,000 strongly gendered names.

Even more interesting is who follows whom. We found that an average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman. Similarly, an average woman is 25% more likely to follow a man than a woman. Finally, an average man is 40% more likely to be followed by another man than by a woman. These results cannot be explained by different tweeting activity – both men and women tweet at the same rate.

These results are stunning given what previous research has found in the context of online social networks. On a typical online social network, most of the activity is focused around women – men follow content produced by women they do and do not know, and women follow content produced by women they knowⁱ. Generally, men receive comparatively little attention from other men or from women. We wonder to what extent this pattern of results arises because men and women find the content produced by other men on Twitter more compelling than on a typical social network, and men find the content produced by women less compelling (because of a lack of photo sharing, detailed biographies, etc.).

Twitter’s usage patterns are also very different from a typical on-line social network. A typical Twitter user contributes very rarely. Among Twitter users, the median number of lifetime tweets per user is one. This translates into over half of Twitter users tweeting less than once every 74 days.

At the same time there is a small contingent of users who are very active. Specifically, the top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets. On a typical online social network, the top 10% of users account for 30% of all production. To put Twitter in perspective, consider an unlikely analogue – Wikipedia. There, the top 15% of the most prolific editors account for 90% of Wikipedia’s edits ⁱⁱ. In other words, the pattern of contributions on Twitter is more concentrated among the few top users than is the case on Wikipedia, even though Wikipedia is clearly not a communications tool. This implies that Twitter’s resembles more of a one-way, one-to-many publishing service more than a two-way, peer-to-peer communication network.

Bill Heil is a graduating MBA student at Harvard Business School, and will start at Adobe Systems as a Product Manager in the fall. Mikolaj Jan Piskorski is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at HBS who teaches a Second Year elective entitled Competing with Social Networks. Bill undertook research for parts of this article in the context of that class.

i Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. “Networks as covers: Evidence from an on-line social network.” Working Paper, Harvard Business School.

ii Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan and Andreea Gorbatai, “Social structure of collaboration on Wikipedia.” Working Paper, Harvard Business School.

Tips about Tweetdeck by Jesse Newhart

Is Obama already re-elected? Most likely, yes

Please read carefully between the lines of this announcement below:

QUOTE

Google’s Top Policy Executive to Join Obama Administration

By Miguel Helft

Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s head of global public policy, is leaving the company to join the Obama administration, according to two people with knowledge of Mr. McLaughlin’s plans.

Mr. McLaughlin will be deputy chief technology officer, reporting to Aneesh Chopra, the chief technology officer, who was previously Virginia’s secretary of technology, said these people, who agreed to speak only if their names were not used because Mr. McLaughlin’s appointment had not been announced.

Mr. McLaughlin’s move is likely to renew concerns among some Google rivals and public policy groups about Google’s growing clout in Washington.

A Google spokesman confirmed that Mr. McLaughlin was leaving the company. Mr. McLaughlin did not immediately respond to an e-mail message seeking comment. An e-mail message to the White House press office was not immediately answered.

Mr. McLaughlin joined Google about five years ago and directed the company’s public policy efforts. Previously he was an executive at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit group that helps coordinate the Internet’s address system. He is an emeritus fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and was part of Mr. Obama’s transition team as a member of the Technology, Innovation and Government Reform Policy Working Group.

Mr. McLaughlin is the latest Google executive to take an official role in the Obama administration. Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, has been a close adviser to President Obama’s transition team and is now a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Katie Stanton, a former Google project manager, joined the White House as its director of citizen participation. And Sonal Shah, former head of global development at Google.org, now heads the White House Office of Social Innovation.

Some critics fear that the growing presence of former Google employees in the administration could lead to purchasing and policy decisions that improperly benefit the company at a time when the company’s power is likely to come under increasing scrutiny from regulators. Already the Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether the ties between the boards of Google and Apple amount to a violation of antitrust laws. The Justice Department is inquiring into the antitrust implications of Google’s settlement of a lawsuit with publishers and authors.

In a statement, Google said: “We understand that in order to be successful in Washington we need relationships on both sides of the aisle, and we have worked over the past few years to strengthen those relationships. As for a small handful of Googlers leaving the company to join the administration, we respect their decision to work in public service and wish them all the best in their new and exciting jobs.”

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Meantime, there are serious and big companies whose directors could not yet manage to understand the power of Internet and, mainly, social networks in business. May God bless them.

Mobyko - Tip of the day

Survey about Social Networks (USA)

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Power of People by Joakim Vars Nilsen

Power Of People

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Social Mídia: terceirizar versus in-house

Barack Obama: Case em mídias sociais

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A bela apresentação acima nos mostra o que o uso inteligente, estratégico e estruturado das redes sociais aliado aos tradicionais meios de comunicação pode fazer por um indivíduo, no caso, o Presidente Americano Barack Obama e, mesmo, pelo seu próprio negócio.

Agora cabe ao mercado corporativo decidir se ele prefere contratar uma agência de marketing digital que fará o serviço com esmero ou se ele prefere capacitar, pouco a pouco, a sua mina dourada de colaboradores internos e sob a batuta de um CNO - Chief Networking Officer para implementar a verdadeira gestão de redes de negócios.

16h Workshop In-Company

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O primeiro cenário poderá trazer ganhos mais rápidos mas demandarão maior investimento. Na segunda opção, além de ter ganhos consistentes e mais duradouros, a relação custo x benefício é bem mais interessante. Adicione a oportunidade de inovar perante seus competidores, além de motivar, atrair e reter os melhores talentos do mercado para sua organização. Afinal de contas, o verdadeiro nome do jogo é gestão de população. As redes sociais são apenas o ferramental que usaremos para tal. Posicione-se desde já e que vença o melhor.

Brainsbook on Networking

Selma Prodanovic, Chief Networking Officer of Brainswork initiated the brainsbook.com internet platform almost a year ago. Now, she is proud to present the printed result: the Brainsbook on Networking, the printed edition of the world's first Brainsbook, inspired by leading experts and written by an international community of internet users, with ideas, thoughts and knowledge on networking. These are real tips and experiences by real people - a book filled back-to-back with contributions as diverse as networking itself!

Among the 40 authors from 15 countries are top-class experts such as Bernd Baumgartl, Kristin Engvig, Martina Gleissenebner, Lydia Goutas, Bec Hamilton, Tom Merilahti, Muhamed Mesic, Ivan Misner, Resad Paya Pasic, Octavio Pitaluga Neto, Rachel Sterne, Stephanie Ward, Katrin Zita and editor Selma Prodanovic.

Whether you're a newcomer to the world of networking or a network management professional, this limited special edition brings you the whole momentum - and an idea of common knowledge - from an intercultural world. With contributions in English or German, the Brainsbook has just the ingredients you need to feed your thoughts and boost your networking performance!

Treinamento sobre redes sociais na Plano Imobiliaria

Ficamos muito honrado e agradecidos pelo carinho com que fomos recebidos pela equipe da Plano Imobiliaria na liderança da Marlene Nicolau, membro da TEN - Top Executives Net. Que esse seja o início de um longo e profícuo relacionamento profissional para ambos.

TEN - Top Executives Net (EN)

Institutional presentation highlighting our expertise of Business Networks Management, CNO - Chief Networking Officer and social networks.

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Nine Twitter Tips for Business

Macworld.com´s Jason Snell wrote a nice guideline full of useful tips about using Twitter for business purposes. We are following his guidance too. Enjoy it!

Quem é você neste mundo? Espectador?

Social Media in Plain English

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Training: Social Networks

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CNO & The Call

If you heard the same call about becoming a CNO - Chief Networking Officer in your organization, we need to talk. Just add me on Skype: octaviopitaluga and there we go....

Social Networks & Business Cards

Since I have my own social network - TEN - Top Executives Net, I am no longer using business cards. See my reasons here.

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American Society Rio de Janeiro´s Networking Cocktail

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World Economic Forum - Technology Report

The Report stresses the importance of ICT as a catalyst for growth in the current global turmoil

Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, released for the eighth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum. The United States follows suit, up one position from last year, thus confirming its pre-eminence in networked readiness in the current times of economic slowdown. Singapore (4), Switzerland (5) and the other Nordic countries together with the Netherlands and Canada complete the top 10.

The Report underlines that good education fundamentals and high levels of technological readiness and innovation are essential engines of growth needed to overcome the current economic crisis. Under the theme “Mobility in a Networked World”, this year’s Report places a particular focus on the relationship and interrelations between mobility and ICT.

With record coverage of 134 economies worldwide, the Report remains the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of ICT on the development process and the competitiveness of nations.

The Report is produced by the World Economic Forum in cooperation with INSEAD, the leading international business school, and is sponsored by Cisco Systems.

The Networked Readiness - 2008/2009 - Rankings

Rankings 2008-2009 Top Ten

>> Rankings in full Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Country Denmark Sweden USA Singapore Switzerland Finland Iceland Norway Netherlands Canada Score 5.85 5.84 5.68 5.67 5.58 5.53 5.50 5.49 5.48 5.41

Comparison: Denmark (1) x Brazil (59 out 134)

Variable	Denmark	Brazil
Venture capital availability	4.71	2.87
Financial market sophistication	6.32	5.97
Availability of latest technologies	6.51	4.83
State of cluster development	4.86	3.91
Utility patents (hard data)	71.06	0.47
High-tech exports (hard data)	12.65	6.11
Burden of government regulation	3.83	1.87
Extent and effect of taxation	2.51	1.70
Total tax rate (hard data)	29.90	69.40
Time required to start a business (hard data)	6.00	152.00
Number of procedures required to start a business (hard data)	4.00	18.00
Intensity of local competition	5.58	5.29
Freedom of the press	6.90	6.02
Accessibility of digital content	6.30	4.72
Effectiveness of law-making bodies	6.02	2.38
Laws relating to ICT	6.08	4.18
Judicial independence	6.52	3.81
Intellectual property protection	6.22	3.27
Efficiency of legal framework for disputes	6.30	3.00
Property rights	6.64	4.58
Quality of competition in the ISP sector	5.55	4.69
Number of procedures to enforce a contract (hard data)	34.00	45.00
Time to enforce a contract (hard data)	380.00	616.00
Telephone lines (hard data)	51.89	20.54
Secure Internet servers (hard data)	805.31	20.13
Electricity production (hard data)	6697.77	2157.20
Availability of scientists and engineers	5.31	4.41
Quality of scientific research institutions	5.64	4.33
Tertiary education enrollment (hard data)	79.94	25.48
Education expenditure (hard data)	8.14	4.29
Quality of math and science education	5.09	2.71
Quality of the educational system	5.81	2.70
Internet access in schools	6.16	3.39
Buyer sophistication	5.07	3.62
Residential telephone connection charge (hard data)	0.33	0.50
Residential monthly telephone subscription (hard data)	0.50	4.01
High-speed monthly broadband subscription (hard data)	1.58	20.21
Lowest cost of broadband (hard data)	0.08	0.42
Cost of mobile telephone call (hard data)	0.00	0.37
Extent of staff training	5.85	4.30
Local availability of specialized research and training services	5.77	4.86
Quality of management schools	5.63	4.24
Company spending on R&D	5.62	3.87
University-industry research collaboration	5.30	3.55
Business telephone connection charge (hard data)	0.33	0.50
Business monthly telephone subscription (hard data)	0.50	6.49
Local supplier quality	5.92	5.14
Local supplier quantity	5.51	5.53
Computer	34.84	45.63
Government prioritization of ICT	6.23	4.13
Government procurement of advanced technology products	4.54	3.39
Importance of ICT to government vision of the future	5.65	3.99
E-Government Readiness Index (hard data)	0.91	0.57
Mobile telephone subscribers (hard data)	114.71	63.08
Personal computers (hard data)	72.75	16.09
Broadband Internet subscribers (hard data)	36.33	4.22
Internet users (hard data)	64.31	26.07
Internet bandwidth (hard data)	346.02	1.50
Prevalence of foreign technology licensing	6.09	4.90
Firm-level technology absorption	6.20	5.25
Capacity for innovation	5.52	4.02
Availability of new telephone lines	6.89	6.18
Extent of business Internet use	6.04	4.94
Government success in ICT promotion	5.58	4.15
Availability of government online services	6.18	5.21
ICT use and government efficiency	5.92	4.59
Presence of ICT in government offices	6.18	4.68
E-Participation Index (hard data)	0.93	0.45

Boat Tour at Cagarras Islands

Program: Boat tour at Cagarras Islands, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

Day: April 05, 2009 (sunday)

Embark/Disembark: Marina da Glória

Check-in: 9h30

Departure/Arrival: 10h / 16h (approximately)

Schedule: sight-seeing via Marina da Glória, following directly to Cagarras Islands, non stop, in private tourism boat. By reaching Rasa Islands, we will stop for snorkling and photos. After crossing the archipelago, next to other islands, another stop for more photos.

Recommendations: Light and bath clothes, sun protector, camera and snorkling equipment (optional, may you have it)

Value: R$ 100,00 per person. Minimum of 10 and maximum of 20 people.

Included: Tourism boat, guide tours, stop for free diving. Fruits, beverages & snacks at will.

Advanced payment: up to 48h
Name: Usina Criativa Com. e Turismo Ltda.
Bank: Itaú, Account: 08992-6, Branch: 2901

ONLINE R.S.V.P. : CLICK HERE

Information:
Marcelo Castro
Cel: 21 9392 9203 or 8734 0581
email: marcelo@cruxecoaventura.com.br

10 reasons to become CNO Group member

Roger Mussa and I have created a CNO Group on LinkedIN recently. This group was designed for special and ambitious professionals. We are very focused on quality rather than quantity.

If you,

1. have distinguished shinning eyes;

2. feel that, despite good performance, your existing responsibilities are not the best match for your true profile and core competences;

3. heard the CNO call and want to learn more;

4. are a senior executive looking for a new career path towards C level;

5. are an executive women willing to grow quickly inside corporate world;

6. are a project manager with a human touch towards your work;

7. want to run your venture following a different approach to business;

8. easily understand the powerful combination between real world and online presence;

9. naturally act as a CNO without even knowing about it;

10. want to help spreading the word about CNO concept globally


Then, CNO group is the right place for you.

Be the most welcome!

Octavio Pitaluga Neto
TEN - Top Executives Net
CNO - Chief Networking Officer

Sharing CNO experience

Dear all,


I will tell my CNO story and how everything started 4 years ago. I strongly encourage you to do the same here.

I have been always working in international business and marketing in my corporate career. However, I´ve always felt that there was something missing.

When I saw the dawn of social networks businesses, I immediately knew that was the line of business I should pursue for my lifetime from that moment on.

Once, I posted in a forum about having a CNO inside corporations. The response was overwhelming. I knew I had hit something that could become big.

I wrote an article entitled "CNO, the future leader" which was published in a very prestigous Brazilian magazine named Mundo PM, Jun/Jul 2007. It was the cover article and the magazine broke its sales record.

Then, I translated this article into both English and Spanish and added 3 paragraphs in the topic "Responsibilities" on Wikipedia (English version). Since then, it has been there without further modifications.

Meantime, I met Selma Prodanovic via social networks and learnt about her women CNO meetings in Europe. I humbly contributed to her book about social media and its impact in the new corporate management. The book will be lauched in April 2009. Stay tuned!

I also created a full portfolio around CNO concept and business networks methodology.

Getting more international, I presented the CNO concept at Think Tomorrow in Brussels in June 2008.

Besides training and coaching, I have been running my own social network - TEN - Top Executives Net - for two year now and have created a calendar of TEN Happy-Hours in Rio.

How about you?

Looking forward to learning from you too.

Best regards,


Octavio Pitaluga Neto
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What object better represents relationships?

A crystal vase, in my opinion
(talking about the true thing only)

They are carefully made
Very special and delicate
A masterpiece

They are like no other
They can not be copied
They are unique

Although we may think
they are commodities
and can be easily found
Not at all

Take care of your relationships
They may look strong
But they are very fragile
indeed

Never ever risk them
Avoid any damage
Once it is broken
It might be forever lost

They are your way
towards lifetime wealth
Treat them with excellence
And life will take care of you

What object better represents life?

In my humble opinion: conventional photo rolls
Why?

When you are born,
God gives you a certain time on earth
You do not know for how long you will stay
Nobody does

As if God gives you one of these rolls and says
"This is your life
Go and get the best out of it
Build, love, cry, smile,
Have fun, make the difference
Be yourself, Laugh,
Develop new relations
and come back later
to show me what you got"

God is always generous
However, for some of us
He gives a 12-photo film
These fellows will have
just a short period of time
to do something

Others are luckier
They will have a 24-photo film
These will have more time
to create a legacy

The great majority of us
Will receive a 36-photo film
We will have time to live
a normal and great life

Finally, God will allow another minority
to stay far long enough
in order to go beyond
in order to live an extraordinary life

Life is always related to time
Time is all what we get in common
While we are still around
Poor or rich

At the end
We will come back to God
With a developed film
or even a numbe of
photo albuns to show

As long as we are here
Let´s make friends,
Develop people,
Love one another,
Strenght relationships

Clean our hearts
Be proud of ourselves
Life is a blessing
We deserve the best of it

Carpe Diem!

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