Do I know you? I'd like to...

A fellow coffee professional--much my senior in experience and knowledge did me the favor of opening his network to me by inviting me to connect on LinkedIN. I have had a profile there for a while, but it was a tepid effort at best. To say that I am ambivalent about social networks is a slight understatement. Networks like LinkedIN just bear too close a resemblance to MySpace, at least in my previous way of thinking. Once I saw the connections opened up to me by just being able to view one person's network, I have to say that seeing is believing. There really are not only a lot of connections to be made, but they are highly pertinent ones. Needless to say, I have been working on my LinkedIN profile and reaching out to people in my network to join so I can perhaps return the favor in some small way.