Today I stumbled upon Linkedin’s InMap feature which allows you to “map” out your Linkedin Network. The clouds that you see above represent clusters of my network, where members are tightly connected with others. For example, the green bubble is my Yale SOM mini network. In business school, we are taught that networking is key and modern business school students are told before they enter school to connect with as many people as possible. The fuchsia cloud is the network of my former employer, KBC. As I was leaving the firm I tried connect with as many people as possible and over the years I’ve noticed that as the firm has evolved more people have left and yet remained in touch so the cloud has become more dense. A much looser agglomeration is the blue cloud which are my contacts in the Bangladeshi community which were largely built through my leadership of an organization called NYBAP. This a broader community which is less tied to each other.

Looking at these networks bring some interesting things to mind. First, I noticed that I have almost no connection with my college buddies even though on Facebook I’m regularly in touch. Granted I went to college long before Linkedin, so it wasn’t the way I connected with most of my friends. Secondly, other than my Opower network (orange) I have no notion of regional networks. This is partially because Linkedin doesn’t show them but also because I have not joined a meta network in DC where I would likely plug in. From a networking perspective this is a deficiency and means that I should try to connect with local networks more intensely.

All in all, this quick “map” provides some useful directions to take my professional connection building activities. Its also worth visiting on a regular (annual?) basis. I will try to visit again at the end of 2012 to see if the picture has changed!

Logged into twitter this morning to see that I was mentioned in a tweet by a user called “BusinessPalaces”. Clicking on the URL took me to a paper.li where my tweet last night about entrepreneurship resources in the DC Metro area was put on the “front page” of this virtual newspaper. It never ceases to amaze me that people find me, a relatively little followed and far from prolific twitter user, on Twitter. I am also intrigued by where what I tweet might end up! Happy Tuesday!

Tweet below:

@BusinessPalaces: Business Palace News is out! http://t.co/sa6YPGB5 ▸ Top stories today via @noframex @rasheqrahman @glemmie @republic1st @crispkirstbarba

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After a long time, I decided to whip up some eggs for dinner. I started with my mom’s grilled chicken and added Jalapenos, some Wisconsin sharp cheddar cheese and fresh roma vine tomatoes. The results were tasty, especially because I used farm-raised eggs.

Hi. If you are a regular reader or spammer of this blog you’ve may have noticed that the blog has been down for the past couple of days. This all started with a badly botched attempt to upgrade my blog from WordPress 1.5.2 to v.2.0.2. Within minutes of copying over the files per the upgrade instructions, I was getting the dreaded “white screen of death” in php when I tried to load my home page. For the past days I’ve been working with the good folks at Textdrive, posting on their forums, but with no luck.

However this morning, I retraced my steps a little bit and with the help of the WordPress forums and Google, I was able to piece together a hack for my wp-config.php. I’m still not sure why this works but the hack turns off magic_quotes_gpc and disables the WordPress cache. I hope if any WordPress gurus are reading they will comment and shed some light on what these hacks do. Nonetheless, my site is up and running again, so please visit once more.

Now I have to get on to writing something worth reading …