Hello members of the Canterbury Software Cluster. This is off topic for you but I hope you find it interesting. I've been heavily involved in a social/business network called Ryze. This is my 2004 data. New Zealand features about where you'd expect.
Ryze has about 250,000 members. Of those 50% USA, 20% India and 6% UK. There are three nations with about 2%, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. And eight with about 1%, Germany, NZ, Norway, Israel, Sweden, France and China. On a population basis they rank this way: Singapore, USA, Australia, NZ, Canada, UK, Israel and Norway. ******** Second Data set: This data set shows that NZ has fallen off the list of new people joining Ryze. That concerns me, not because Ryze itself is important, but because New Zealanders being from a small country are slow to understand this concept the Americans call "networking". So I hope here to alert you to that small problem and some of you might like to help change it. A friend of mine from Ryze: Scott Allen has co-authored a book called "The Virtual Handshake". This book explains in great detail both why people need to network and how to do it effectively. Recognising that NZ is a bit behind here, I set up a list on Yahoo a few days ago. VirtualHandshakeNZ. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VirtualHandshakeNZ/ We have as a member already the most highly networked New Zealander Arnnei Speiser, (Yes he has a European background) and several people who are green as grass. My intention is to cover the 30 chapters of the book from a NZ perspective in the next 30 weeks. About 300 new members of Ryze were surveyed last month. The top six countries joining were USA, India, UK, Australia, Canada and Malaysia. On a population basis the top six are USA, Australia, UK, Malaysia, Canada and India. My point is NZ has "gone". Last month NZ did not appear anywhere in the data which included 21 countries. There was a time when NZ head for head could always give Australia a good contest, but somehow when it comes to networking NZ doesn't understand the process yet. I trust you find that interesting. John --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections Replies will go to the CSForum. Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
