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Reading Notes

There is debate about a new terminology to distinguish the new way of networking from the old way, in which networking was approached as to maximise its efficiency by favouring the quantity of connections over their quality, being subsequently rightfully perceived as egoistic and opportunistic. Gerber and Paugh (2018) suggest to use connection instead of connect and connecting instead of networking.

In my writing I have opted for adding descriptive words to define the new way of networking, such as meaningful, authentic, reciprocal and organically grown. This is what I am advocating for and referring to as desirable and connected to belonging. I still use networking and networks as they also have some positive associations, for instance it evokes the way we might be caught to safety by a net from a fall or an image of a network linking people together opposed to people existing in isolation. I hope, that over time with research underpinning what networks should be to help us flourish both physically and mentally, the negative connotations will diminish bit by bit.

Pictures below taken from pages in the book SUPER Connector by Gerber, S. and Paugh, R. (2018)