Traditional power networks are dead – are you exploiting it yet?

Now is the time to be a young jobseeker, entrepreneur & activist! Traditional power structures & patronage networks based on affinity, language, region never had it so bad! The biggest power of LinkedIn + Twitter & Customer Response technology is dis-intermediation of  traditional power network –  dis-intermediation of  networking itself!

Go back 5 /10/15 years  and imagine the challenges you faced to find  and reach the person you needed to influence. You needed to travel to Delhi/Mumbai, ‘chakkar-maro’ the corridors for days at end  to reach out to a bureaucrat/minister/CXO.  Telephone & email made this reach-out revolution 10X easier – but the communication still hid more than it revealed.

In the era of LinkedIn, Twitter, MyGov  <dot> India, amplifying power of Social Media and mass-interaction technologies  where the authorities are empowered to listen – nay  their survival depends on their response-time & the quality of the ideas/complaints they crowd-source & respond to – things are 100X easier.

Today an entrepreneur / a college student/an activist can reach out to a customer / an investor / a benefactor with a single well crafted message. And if your life is your message – your profile and your messages honestly convey what you are seeking & capable of – your requests do get answered! We live in some powerful times for a common-person.

Seize the day!

Seize the medium!