... do you feel with me? All of you who build up a network from scratch, who are outsiders and try to get a grip on an established community with established alliances, those who are autodidact may be with me... the biestmilch story is a story of this kind.

Networking for me is communicating with intentions, with ulterior motives, with a goal ahead... which again for me means to build up trust and reliability and this is much more than just talking or gossiping and it is much more than twitter. It may be a tiresome and risky job to do. There is nothing definite that may predict whether you succeed in connecting or not, you have to take the risk... no guarantees at all. For those who are born into an established network my words may sound strange. For them things are easy going, self-evident... but this is not at all the case for those beyond the borderlines of established networks/communities.

It is first of all continuity and a strategic approach to communication which is needed that a network may emerge at the end of the day, and this I think is not so much build into us human creatures. We prefer twitter... 

Author Barbara Ehrenreich writes about personal networking in the latest issue of Forbes magazine (link--free with registration). She comes to the completely unsurprising conclusion that for most people networking is difficult and unpleasant.

On futurlab you find a comment on this issue which might be of interest for those who feel like loosing grounds, loosing themselves by getting entangled with the nodes of the network they try to intrude...

Is networking really natural thing for us to do? Yes and no... ;-), what do you think?

I cannot resist to comment on Chris' post from Drugs and Poison.
He says: »Folks, I'm sick again, this time with strep throat. I'm on antibiotics and the maximum amount of acetaminophen that one can take before one's liver is annihilated. So no blog posts for the next couple of days.«

Why the heck, is it so difficult to understand biestmilch's message? Biestmilch is such an amazing substance, decreasing susceptibility to infections is only one aspect, supporting your system while taking antibiotics yet another... ! of many many others.

Everybody should know that antibiotics are curing you from your infectious diseases only indirectly, which means antibiotics destroy bacteria. The bacterial decay needs to be removed by the immune system. Thus, don't you think it makes sense to support your immune system?

Biestmilch is all natural and it is so powerful protecting your offspring from all kind of inconveniences. Over centuries our ancestors were well aware of this fact, and kept biestmilch for their sick, elderly and young ones. We have all forgotten about it, which is very sad.

From the New York Times Blog...if you love movies, check it out at TCM ... That’s what a short video was like in them there in the 1940s.
tcm just produced a new documentary on Marlon Brando.

The NewYork Times asks:
»Would BrandoClift have made the day’s Most Viewed? Most Discussed? And what Screener wants to grab it for a recut?«

»It is common knowledge that when a business is adjusting to a difficult economy, R&D slows and marketing is chopped. Marketing is seen as an expenditure, rather than vehicle for sales. The increasing emphasis on measurement and ROI is changing that somewhat«.

Read more on emergency media

For biestmilch.com, a small company doing grassroot work by marketing an unfamiliar substance (which is very strange because colostrum is such an essential thing for mammals including humans) in non-existing market, marketing is the core of our strategic work.