Smojoe on Social Capital and How To Invest
Post by Robert Campbell on Dec 14, 2009
What is social capital? I saw Julien Smith on December 1st 2009 inside the Berkley Church in downtown Toronto and he talked about Trust Agents and how to value social networks. He waxed poetic about advice his father had given him concerning perspectives on friends and potential employers. His script was pretty flat actually, and there was no deviation from the template – a couple times he paused for laughs and there werent any and I suspect he was used to laughs in those places and missed them. In my humble opinion, Julien mislabels social events as Social Capital. These things Smojoe considers to be ‘social currency’ which can build capital. But that’s me being knitpicky … The only thing that kinda bothered me in this presentation was that Julien did not once define social capital in the plainest terms, and so most of the audience is still mesmerized by… Read more »