What’s Your Network Value- Part II

mynetworkvalue.com has been online now for about 3 weeks and to date over 21,000 people have taken the Network Value test!

This topic has also been fiercely discussed in blogs and forums in all four corners of the globe. Some articles made us laugh, some caused raised eyebrows, some made us throw our hands above our heads and some got us nodding our heads in agreement.
Here’s a short recap of some of the best snippets from your discussions:

In Germany, Robert Basic kick-started the discussion with his basic thinking blog. His article entitled “I’m a Cheap Networker” certainly got things fired up. Check it out here [Only available in German].

The career bible; best practice business blog and synaxon blog seemed to polarize the users somewhat – some found the test interesting, some felt deeply inspired and motivated and others shouted “show me the money”.

It wasn’t long until the site was picked up across the pond in various US blogs. Om Malik from Gigaom.com got the ball rolling. He admitted that his network value – although quite high – faded in comparison to Robert Scoble aka Facebook gazillionare. The best line has to be from Alex though: [The networkvalue test is]…”a great mental masturbation exercise.” Oooh err!

The site even got picked up in blogs in France, Spain, Italy and Holland to name but a few.

All in all – the website has got you guys thinking about your network and its value. The value of a network is not determined by quantity alone – it doesn’t matter whether you have 100 contacts or 500 – it’s the quality and heterogeneity that counts.

By the way it’s worth paying the site another visit – we’ve now integrated some nifty buttons. Take a look here

For those of you who are interested in reading more – here’s a few references that blogged our site (isn’t Technorati great?):

Webthinker
The Archer Pelican
myKEY IT
Andrey Golub Weblog
Social Networks around the world
Handelskraft (only in German)
Modes d’emploi (only in French)