Category Archives: Network

Would you like fries with that?

By | Network | No Comments

It is a standing joke in our office quite how many recommendations I personally have on LinkedIn for Magazines, despite having spent pretty much my entire working life in book publishing. And I have a pretty good idea of why this happens. And I love LinkedIn. We have connected to many, many terrific new people in our network through it. But endorsing me for something that reflects the skills of the endorser raises an interesting conundrum for a community such as whitefox.

Scale. It always comes back to scale. How big can the network be? How quickly can thousands become tens of thousands?

But the bigger the network, the more strain on the reason the network has any value in the first place. How can I trust information where an individual is rating their own skill or specialism and they are in control of the endorsement? With ease and speed comes risk. If I don’t know you, how do I know whether I’m wasting my time and my money?

I keep reminding my children that in the future, the one-to-many online marketplace for paid services will be the norm. That their reputation will be their biggest asset. It will give them more flexibility and freedom, if perhaps less protection. It represents an opportunity. But for this model to deliver customer satisfaction there needs to be a level of transparency and accountability which currently doesn’t seem to exist in some of these new gargantuan work hives, racking up numbers of jobs fulfilled like hamburgers served at McDonald’s.

The Age of the Specialist

By | Brand Publishing, Freelance, Insight, Network, Publishing & Consultancy, Self publishing, Uncategorized | No Comments

whitefox CEO John Bond describes the age of the specialist, where there is real value in exact knowledge and skill. In a world obsessed with peer review and a marketplace driven by innovation, the big winners will be those who aspire to be better than the rest. This article first appeared in the Publishers Weekly London Show Daily on April 16th 2013.

Read More
Contact us about your publishing project GET PUBLISHED
http://wearewhitefox.com/category/network/page/5/
wearewhitefox.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-05
70196
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:2GRNVZQIWINDQQ3GLBWR6I3MXEGTJCPF
<urn:uuid:563d358e-4c3a-4a0c-9ba1-c86b44892476>
2018-01-20T22:59:36Z
77.104.129.98
text/html
sha1:PU5DU7NM2IDLATWMZ6EWNNYH6MYQS4VL
<urn:uuid:9376ba17-ab9c-44ce-8993-16c575c71872>
http://wearewhitefox.com/category/network/page/5/
length
response
<urn:uuid:84644d98-5f91-4050-a3e3-e2711b573d09>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-111-199-146.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-05
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for January 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf