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The Next RRE Project: Career Advice

``` The Next RRE Project: Career Advice

For the last several years, I have been collecting useful advice and perspectives on the process of professional networking. I want to spread the skills of network-building, and I want to redefine these skills in ethical terms, freed from their often-deserved connotations of superficiality and manipulation. To this end, I have gathered what I have learned so far in an article for graduate students called "Networking on the Network", which is available on the Web at:

http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/network.html

Although I have learned from many wise people in writing "Networking on the Network", I am certain that much more remains to be said. Therefore, I want to ask everyone to send me their favorite insights on the general subject of networking and community-building in the professional world. What is the best advice you ever got? What is the least obvious good advice you ever got? What idea made you see the professional world in a different way? How has your consciousness of the professional world evolved as you have progressed in it, and how can we help beginners and outsiders to evolve more quickly in the same direction? Who was your model for professional relationships that were effective and ethical, and what did this person do that was special? What mistakes have you made, large or small, and what advice would have helped you avoid them? What kinds of distress could you have been spared if you had learned certain concepts early enough? What are the simple, powerful ways that you have discovered to bring people together around shared concerns? Let me know -- send me a short message at pagre@ucsd.edu. I particularly hope that you can read the current version of "Networking on the Network", reacting to particular points or filling in gaps. What aspects of professional life have I missed out on altogether?

When I receive your message, I will do two things with it:

(1) I will try to fold your insights into the next version of NotN. If I succeed then I will certainly acknowledge your contribution.

(2) Unless you specifically ask me not to, I will include your message in a collection of everybody's messages that I send out to the Red Rock Eater mailing list (http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html for more details) and to everyone who contributed. I will sort the messages roughly by length, with the shortest ones first. I reserve the right to omit any messages that don't seem appropriate, but I don't expect to omit very many of them.

Thanks very much for your help

Phil Agre ```

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