How to Prosper On Ryze - Free Access
How to Prosper On Ryze - Free AccessPrivacy: When you join the Ryze Business Network your page is marked "private" until you make it "public". This gives you time to organise your page and make it look...
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Paid Membership On Ryze - Ryze earns part of it's income from paid memberships. In my view the description of what's offered is not well considered. Ryze pretends there are several "benefits" that a...
View ArticleFirst Steps on Ryze
Ryze is a very friendly and very effective social and business network. But most of the people who join don't go on to become participating members. Here are some really bad numbers that I want to...
View ArticleWhy Network?
Why Network? Some of us are really dumb. I'm including myself in that group. I'm by nature or family indoctrination or childhood education one of the people who likes to join groups and to be an active...
View ArticleNetworking Principles?
What Networking Principles?Joining Ryze or Ecademy or LinkedIn does not make you a networker. You become a networker because of the things you do. Doing things takes time. Sadly for most of us TIME is...
View ArticleYour Own Web Cluster
Your Own Web ClusterRyze is good but not perfect. There are several features I'd like to see added to the site, but money is short, and Ryze seems to develop in it's own way, and in it's own time....
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Network Memberships - Evaluating?On another network, David Fuller, reviewed his experience using business/social networks. He called his article, "My Networking Subscriptions are about to run out, so...
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Joe Doe and Jane Plain - Networkers?
When I examine the personal pages of people who are active networkers I find people who have a belief that talking to others and meeting new people is useful and helpful. But the vast majority of...
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Networking and Learning
While it's possible to learn from books, film, or audio resources, we learn best when we are shown how to do things by people we know and admire. In fact often the key lesson is in the mode and manner...
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The Virtual Handshake: (Book Review)
The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online.By David Teten and Scott AllenUntil now too many people have been unsure what to do "now that I'm online". The Virtual Handshake is a...
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Networking Articles are "Uninformed and Unhelpful"
It's quite clear that most journalists don't understand the basics of networking practice. I don't blame them for that. Networking online is new, we do have access to many more people, but we don't...
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Learning on Ryze
Balla Pillai introduced me to Ryze in 2001, Ryze was new, I couldn't see the point. I didn't join. I did join in 2003. Ryze had been through a big growth spurt, and the networks were buzzing. Generally...
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Learning by Using the Internet
How do we learn anything? We learn on the playing field, we learn by doing it, we learn from our friends and associates. So YOU learn about the Internet by using it and often by trying out new things...
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The Information Super-Highway Isn't Used
In 1995 New Zealand was like several other small fringe nations, very active on the Internet. This was driven, in my view, by the isolation we felt, by a need to connect to some imagined centre where...
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Be the Master of Your Online Activity
New Zealand is a "small place" with only 4.5 million people. We are used to knowing each other fairly well on a face to face basis. Rebels are rare here, and they stand out from the crowd very easily....
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Cluetrain Manifesto at 10 Years
This blog is for people who are finding their way into social networking and personal learning online. Much of the Cluetrain Manifesto addresses the same issues. They say that networked users of the...
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Are we Ready Yet? - Some of Us Perhaps.
The Cluetrain Manifesto makes the claim that, “we are getting smarter, more informed and more organised.” Of course Howard Rheingold probably originated the idea of "smart mobs". There are aspects of...
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Volunteer to be Successful
The openness of your own future, depends on YOU. Your ability to VOLUNTEER to do new things and to take on new ideas is the key to your future. So have you volunteered to be part of an online social...
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A New Direction for Step by Step
I'm concerned about the growing digital divide occurring on the Internet. This blog originally had very limited aims, essentially to teach people how to use the Ryze social network. My blog was a...
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Protecting Your Computer from Attack
OK, so we're starting from scratch here. You've got a new machine connected to the Internet and the machine vendor already has installed an anti-virus programme. Of course that's a subtle attempt to...
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