Building Online Relationships – Meeting Your Network's Needs

One of the most important aspects of creating,sustaining,and extending your PLN is having a strong network of "friends". Just like IRL (in real life) relationships are built with trust, transparency, and consistency.

 My fellow JJL colleague, Terry Starbucker, has some great advice on steps we can take when approaching someone online in order to build a successful relationship. Terry believes that the power of the relationship grows when you provide content that can meet a hierarchy of  their needs. This is the type of content you should provide:

1. Keep My Faith in Humanity

2. Make Me Laugh

3. Inform Me

4. Teach Me

5. Inspire and Challenge Me

6. Sell Me

  The order makes a lot of sense- what do you think? What is your plan to BREATHE?

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