The power of
weak ties in our social networks, explained.
Read in our next installment more about the fit getting rich, the strength of
weak ties in your network, the risk of referencing, benefits of crisp questions, and the paradox of profit.
Therefore, when looking for your needle, you are looking for
weak ties in a caring or a professional and dedicated environment.
This week, when I asked for a book recommendation (http://on.fb.me/O7k7tQ), introduction to a public company CEO (http://on.fb.me/P9x6vR), and received an intro to an author I interviewed (http://on.fb.me/P9xb2C); it was generally
the weak ties in my network who I had never met or hadn't connected with for years that gave the most support.
Not exact matches
Woods is the co-founder of a Toronto - based startup called Nudge, which is developing a software platform to help business professionals keep track of their
weak ties, meaning people they don't keep
in touch with regularly.
Firms directly
tied to the energy sector expected further declines
in their sales volumes, and companies that sell to energy - related customers suffer along with them as they adjust to an environment of
weak demand.
Many
in crypo - land have long suspected the secure messaging app, Telegram, is compromised by
weak encryption and
ties to government.
In the 1970's a sociologist named Mark Granovetter introduced a concept called «the strength of
weak ties.»
Through social media tools, a business can stay connected to a larger number of «
weak ties» and the networks they belong to, have access to the information and opportunities
in those networks, and do it better and faster.
Defying conventional logic, his research showed that
weak ties are actually more influential
in parts of our lives than strong
ties (e.g. getting a job).
The source of most opportunity is documented most extensively
in research called «The Strength of
Weak Ties» by Mark Granovetter, a sociologist and professor at Stanford University.
The current US recovery, which is now
tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the
weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly
in light of continued high expectations.
In Morten Hansen's book Collaboration, he describes how both
weak ties and strong
ties are crucial — but that the
weak ties created through networking and social media were often the key to new opportunities.
Weak ties help here because they «form bridges to worlds we do not walk within,» whereas strong
ties are most likely people
in worlds we already know.
In her book The Defining Decade, Meg Jay stresses the importance of «
weak tie» connections.
But after interviewing 250 children
in several U.S. cities, sociologist Sarane Boocock concluded that the
ties between today's children and their mothers are surprisingly
weak.
If it don't happen then we will Qualify for next year and Wo be
tied if Wenger doesn't get at least 3 top quality players
in and a sort out with the
weak ones.
Lucky to draw at Everton (Defense), 2 pts lost
Tied away to newly promoted Leicester (Defense), 2 pts lost Should have beaten City @ Home (Defense), 2 pts lost Tied at home to an even sh *** er Spurs (Defense), 2 pts lost Why even show up at Stamford Bridge as we can't beat a Mourinho Chelsea team (Defense), 3 pts lost Tied @ home to Hull SERIOUSLY (Defense), 2 pts lost Allowed Swansea to comback when we're leading (Defense), 3 pts lost Man Utd's worst side ever beat us @ HOME (Defense), 3 pts lost and BIGGEST JOKE SO FAR We all know what happened at Stoke... (Defense) and most recently tied away to weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded in injury time with more than half our team being defensive players at the time, (Defe
Tied away to newly promoted Leicester (Defense), 2 pts lost Should have beaten City @ Home (Defense), 2 pts lost
Tied at home to an even sh *** er Spurs (Defense), 2 pts lost Why even show up at Stamford Bridge as we can't beat a Mourinho Chelsea team (Defense), 3 pts lost Tied @ home to Hull SERIOUSLY (Defense), 2 pts lost Allowed Swansea to comback when we're leading (Defense), 3 pts lost Man Utd's worst side ever beat us @ HOME (Defense), 3 pts lost and BIGGEST JOKE SO FAR We all know what happened at Stoke... (Defense) and most recently tied away to weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded in injury time with more than half our team being defensive players at the time, (Defe
Tied at home to an even sh *** er Spurs (Defense), 2 pts lost Why even show up at Stamford Bridge as we can't beat a Mourinho Chelsea team (Defense), 3 pts lost
Tied @ home to Hull SERIOUSLY (Defense), 2 pts lost Allowed Swansea to comback when we're leading (Defense), 3 pts lost Man Utd's worst side ever beat us @ HOME (Defense), 3 pts lost and BIGGEST JOKE SO FAR We all know what happened at Stoke... (Defense) and most recently tied away to weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded in injury time with more than half our team being defensive players at the time, (Defe
Tied @ home to Hull SERIOUSLY (Defense), 2 pts lost Allowed Swansea to comback when we're leading (Defense), 3 pts lost Man Utd's worst side ever beat us @ HOME (Defense), 3 pts lost and BIGGEST JOKE SO FAR We all know what happened at Stoke... (Defense) and most recently
tied away to weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded in injury time with more than half our team being defensive players at the time, (Defe
tied away to
weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded
in injury time with more than half our team being defensive players at the time, (Defense)
The Capital One Cup
tie against rivals Tottenham Hotspur was a particular case
in point, with Mauricio Pochettino's side pointedly targeting Debuchy as a
weak link.
What immediately stands out from that list is how
weak Arsenal are
in the first
tie, all of which have been at home.
Prior to his
weak attempt to save Hazard's effort on Wednesday, Caballero gave the ball away
in the build up to Monaco's first goal
in City's Champions League first leg
tie.
The campaign is not only based on extremely
weak arguments but also on the idea that Labour should go into the next election saying «We believe not only that free movement should be possible with the countries with which we have the closest economic
ties but also from every where else
in the world.
For the record, New Mexico had the
weakest increase
in jobs
in the nation as well as the smallest decline
in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi
tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase
in inflation - adjusted state GDP.
Nelson's Republican opponents insist he is hobbled by his
ties to President Obama and is deeply exposed
in a state where the economy has been especially
weak.
Through successful negotiation and an open dialogue with relevant Iranian ministries, universities, and scientists, a solid bridge between scientific communities was re-established
in spite of tensions and
weak political
ties.
In networking terms, your close friend and you would have a «strong
tie,» as opposed to the «
weak tie» between your friend's friend and yourself.
1 D. Z. Levin, R. Cross, L. C. Abrams, «The strength of
weak ties you can trust: The mediating role of trust
in effective knowledge transfer,» Academy of Management Proceedings, MOC: D1 (2002).
TRIP zeroes
in on the social networks most likely to be infected rather than attempting to use «
weak ties» to recruit people who inject drugs who are socially and geographically distant from the «seeds,»» Friedman said.
Social bonding and reproductive success were highly correlated: Mares with the
weakest social
ties had about half as many surviving foals as those that were the most sociable, the researchers report online this week
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Studies have shown that most of us meet the most significant people
in our lives through our
weak ties and not through our daily routines.
«Those
weak ties serve as bridges between our group of close friends and other clustered groups, allowing us to connect to the global community,» say Josue Ortega at the University of Essex
in the U.K. and Philipp Hergovich at the University of Vienna
in Austria.
In these and other ways, it is clear that the Internet has become a new place to look for relationships, and that the Internet is important for strong as well as
weak ties within social networks.
Whilst not the worst film
tie -
in, Fantastic 4 still feels heavily watered down and certainly comes across as a
weaker version of «X-Men Legends.»
Despite the
weaker story, this third installment nicely
ties up Jason Bourne's inclusion
in the clandestine franchise.
Steve McQueen's chilly directorial shortcomings may underscore what's
weak in Ridley's take on Solomon Northup's memoir (namely an undernourished depiction of the precious family from which our hero is stripped), but it feels nuts to bet against the one script
in this field
tied to a plausible Best Picture winner.
Individuals often define their affiliations
in terms of some subgroup and have
weaker ties to the larger organization.
I also found one mystery rather predictable, with the
tie -
in to the second to be
weak.
2011 was also a fairly
weak year for media
tie -
ins driving book sales — there was no «Watchmen,» as
in 2009, or «Scott Pilgrim»
in 2010.
The current US recovery, which is now
tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the
weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly
in light of continued high expectations.
- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p
in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps
in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used
in the right situation, but
weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step
in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up
in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles
in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more
tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode
in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw
in - more Salmon Run maps will be added
in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected
in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects
Now, there is a
weak 22 - year cycle
in geomagnetic activity, but it goes from solar maximum to maximum, so, again is not
tied to Even / Odd cycles [from minimum to minimum].
Consistent with this premise, Buchanan et al. (1996) report benefits of a close father - child relationship for adolescent outcomes
in father - resident families but found these effects to be
weaker than the benefits of a close mother - child
tie in mother - resident families.»