A blog about mixing business with pleasure.
The Wonderful World of Ultimate and LinkedIn.
By Koen Alexander:
Handler, Crunch, Amsterdam
Analyst/Designer, Ordina, Nieuwegein

donderdag 20 maart 2008

Why mix Business with Pleasure?

Why mix Business (your work connections) with Pleasure (your frisbee buddies)?

Well, for instance:

  • Let's say you are thinking about applying for a job at company X. You can search amongst the group members and see whether there is already a frisbee player working at company X. I myself would find it easier to approach an unknown frisbee player to ask whether it is any fun to work at that company, than aiming the same question at just any random person on LinkedIn working at that company.
  • Let's say you would like to give paid Ultimate workshops. You can search amongst the frisbeeplayers for interesting companies and you immediately have someone in the company who knows what you are talking about. He/she will probably be able to tell you who in the company organizes work outings.
  • Let's say you want to get sponsorship for a tournament you are organizing. How do you approach Coca-Cola, Nike, KLM, ...? You get someone internally to introduce you and your ideas to the PR department.
    Get my drift?

I look forward to other suggested uses, or better, success stories about the Wonderful World Of Ultimate.

Cheers.

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