Personal contact...not the filthy kind

We where given the task to write about our own personal experiences to describe how personal contact can give you inspiration of a creative opportunity for you.

I have quite a few experiences of being personally meeting artists. One such person was Tobias Fouracre who works for Tandem Films, the company may not be a house hold name but he worked of such wonders at “the corpse bride” by Tim Burton. I was also lucky enough to meet Chris Randall who works for Second Home Productions. Second Home Production isn’t such a big name as Tandem as them manly do work for art theatres.
I managed the meet these people at a talk called DigiToons in Birmingham, but they all mentioned the same thing, Drawing. They said Life drawing was the most important skill you have is the creative industry.

At the same talk but different location I managed to meet The Brothers McLeod who work for Cbbc among other things.
The Brothers McLeod had a comply different attitude then the people in suits mentioned above. Although they where around 35 years old there attitude was much more down to earth, I felt this created a much more creative atmosphere and I couldn’t help but doodle during there talk.

All of the people above all started with basic life drawing skills, and through out there talks life drawing was mentioned several times. I thus believe personal contact is important to create inspiration for personal ideas.

networking...not just people makeing nets

We where given the task of arguing for or against the following statement:
'The essential point of networking is human contact; business has killed networking by making it something for the career orientated person.'

When I was first given this statement I wasn’t sure what to think, True I did believe that networking was an important part of business, for instance my sister and I went on a company picnic with our dad, the first thing she did when she turned up was to mentioned networking. When I asked her why she said networking is the key to changing jobs and climb the career ladder.

So my first thought was yes, business has killed social networking. It did seem that I over looked one major website that 50 million people have profiles for*.
One word Facebook, The fun social network site, just mention the name and virtually anyone will give you there contact name.
Not only Facebook but there are other websites that provided social networks if only on a more basic scale, for instance WAUN (initials for: where are you now) which is a website offering social networking with the edition of travel guides made by users.

How can a websites with that many users not prove the above statement wrong?

I believe that the statement above is wrong.
To many peoples minds the word networking does scream business, but people create social networks without even thinking.
So I ask in turn if you continue to create social networks without consciously thinking about it.
How could business kill off an unconscious habit?


*as of November 2007 found on WikiAnswers at: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_have_a_facebook