Social Capital Mentor

What is Social Capital?

Social Capital is the quality by which a person’s perceived savvy, acumen and grace provide access and opportunity in the world. Ultimately, it is the solvency of the Self. David Bransten Director, Documentarian Like the other, more commonly understood forms of capital (financial and intellectual), Social Capital can be accrued or banked. Like all sciences, it can be [...]

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Social Capital Seminar in San Francisco Feb 24

We’ve just been asked to run a short seminar at Sasha Vasilyuk’s Meetup group next week. We’re going to cover Social Capital and how it relates to some timely issues: surviving the recession, presenting yourself well, closing more deals and conducting a successful business lunch or power lunch. Should be fun and informative. If you’re [...]

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Avoid the Chopping Block: How to Keep Your Job in a Recession

The statistics are grim. According the the Department of Labor, the month of January alone saw the unemployment rate rise from 7.2% to 7.6%. In terms of lives, that’s around 598,000 directly affected. It’s anybody’s guess how many are indirectly victimized by the recession. Over the last 12 months, the number of unemployed people has [...]

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College Degrees aren’t Enough - You Need More

Building your social capital helps you get more financial capital (money, jobs, clients, projects, partnerships). This is now more important that it has been in years. If you happen to need convincing, read on to get the latest report on our economic backdrop. This is from Bloomberg a couple hours ago: Job Losses in U.S. Spreading [...]

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Social Capital Leads to Financial Capital: Dan Schwabel Interviews Juliette Powell

I haven’t yet read Juliette Powell’s new book 33 Million People in the Room,but I came across this interview with Dan Schwabel and my interest is piqued. There’s no shortage of information out there these days about the value of social networking. Yes, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter are important for online social media marketing. We know [...]

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Social Capital Gives You Financial Capital

One of the most important thing to realize about social capital is that it gives you the capacity for action. That capacity for action often takes the place of other forms of capital, like intellectual or financial capital. Tim Bosworth oversimplifies things when he says in this post that social capital is “basically who and how [...]

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Turning Social Skills Into Money

In my last post, I talked about Carolyn Davis’ social skills. One of the reasons we hired her to cater our party was because she’s great with people; she’s got great social skills. One of my regular readers reminded me of something that I want to be clear about. Here at Social Capital Mentor, we don’t [...]

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