Six degrees of separation

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Six degrees of separation

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• its a small world after all

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Fundamentals of Networking

• Sound cumbersome and abstract
• May skip some of the steps as you get established
  in your field
• (or if, unlike most of us, you can charm rooms
  full of strangers in twenty minutes)
• If you're starting from zero then the process
  really is this complicated

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Rule 1 If you have to leave the building
because of a fire, dont forget your rolodex/pda
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Rule 2 Always look good you never know who
you are going to meet
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Six degrees of separation

• The theory that anyone on the planet can be
  connected to any other person on the planet
  through a chain of acquaintances that has no more
  than five intermediaries

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Milgrams Experiment

• 1967 - randomly selected people in the mid-West
  to send packages to a stranger located in
  Massachusetts
• Senders knew recipient's name, occupation, and
  general location.
• Instructed to send the package to a person they
  knew on a first-name basis who they thought was
  most likely, out of all their friends, to know
  the target personally
• That person would do the same, and so on, until
  the package was personally delivered to its
  target recipient.

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Milgrams results

• it took 5-7 intermediaries to get each package
  delivered
• Findings were published in Psychology Today and
  inspired the phrase "six degrees of separation
• Problem small number of packages

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Watts experiment

• 2001 - recreated Milgram's experiment on the
  Internet
• Used an e-mail message as the "package" that
  needed to be delivered
• 48,000 senders and 19 targets (in 157 countries),
  Watts found that the average number of
  intermediaries was 6
• New areas of inquiry related to 6 degrees of
  separation in diverse areas of network theory
  such as as power grid analysis, disease
  transmission, graph theory, corporate
  communication, and computer circuitry

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Moving from 6o to 2o

• Potential networks
• Networking opportunities

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You dont decide which network to join, you
create your own network.
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Why network?

• Opportunities
• Jobs
• The unexpected

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Potential networks

• School
• Work
• Community
• Personal
• Family

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Who should be in your network?

• People with similar interests
• People with similar careers
• People you admire
• People outside your field whose work is related
  to what you do
• People who are doing what you aspire to do

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Relationships

• Are built on commonalities
• shared values
• shared research topics
• shared goals
• anything else of a professional nature that you
  might share with someone

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Finding the opportunities

• Theyre everywhere
• You are always in situations/environments where
  networking is possible
• Traveling
• Work
• School
• Meetings
• Social situations

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Traveling

• Planes, trains, metros
• Never know who youll meet
• Examples
• The Governor of Montana
• Ivana Trump

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Work

• Lunch
• Coffee
• Educational offerings/conferences

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Professional Organizations

• Meetings
• Committees
• Calls
• Social activities
• Meals
• If no one else seems to be planning something,
  take the lead

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Conferences

• Primary purpose
• Present a paper or poster
• People are interested in your work
• People are interested in you

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Professional Organizations

• Keep you in touch with what's happening in your
  field
• Members holding similar jobs can be a vital
  resource
• When you encounter a problem you can contact them
  for advice.
• May use meetings to do some informal
  brainstorming with peers

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Structural Holes

• A bunch of people who don't know each other but
  ought to
• Intuition is that these people ought to know one
  another, and you will be providing a public
  service by serving as the go-between.
• Will not know in advance just how you will
  interconnect these people
• The more diverse people you build relationships
  with, the more of these unpredictable
  opportunities will arise, both for your own
  benefit and for theirs.

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Everyone is important
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Remember Names
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How to get started

• At a meeting or conference, attend the talks that
  interest you
• Find out who else is there (in advance if
  possible) and decide who you would like to meet
• Spend most of your time tracking particular
  people down and talking to them
• Attend talks being presented by people you want
  to meet, and introduce yourself afterward.
• Keep the conversation to safe, professional
  topics
• Ask questions about their work that you genuinely
  want answered
• Think about who you know in common

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Alumni Networks

• Newsletters
• Gatherings
• Annual meetings

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Vacation

• Haiti
• Mexico
• Mexico
• Australia

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• You are always being interviewed
• For the next job
• For another position
• For appointment to a committee

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Why should you sit next to someone you dont know?

• Job opportunities
• Other connections
• Interesting conversation

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Think about who you want to meet

• Get an introduction
• Introduce yourself
• Be open to possibilities

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Phrases to use

• Say "we" rather than "I", as in "we discovered
  such-and-such"..
• Own your opinions by saying things like, "I
  personally think that ..."
• Give credit to others
• Don't crow about your successes. The success will
  speak for itself, especially with the people
  whose opinion you most care about.

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• Deflect praise. If someone says something
  positive about you and your work, you should
  calmly take the first opportunity to acknowledge
  it. Say "I appreciate the kind words".
• Emphasize the intellectual reasons for your work,
  not the personal reasons.

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My first APHA meeting

• Knew no one
• Had never presented a poster at a meeting before
• Went to ICEHS meeting because it sounded
  interesting
• Outcome
• Had coffee with Bill Foegge
• Became co-editor of newsletter

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Baltimore

• First oral presentation
• Didnt know anyone at the meeting
• Electricity went out just as my presentation
  started
• Meeting organizer came in and apologized
• Invited to dinner

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Never know what will happen

• NHRIPP
• Contact with Government Affairs office
• Flyer in the mail

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Trauma/Emergency Medicine

• Professional organizations
• State level involvement
• Local activities

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Public Health

• APHA
• CDC
• SAMHSA
• NIAAA
• OJJDP

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Policy

• The Hill
• APSA
• RWJ Alumni network
• Political involvement
• Policy advocacy
• Presidential campaign

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