May
15
Creativity by sharing ideas
Filed Under Networking, fun
I fancy myself as something of a cross fertiliser - sort of like a bee - flitting from network to network, contact to contact sharing ideas and links as I go. The benefits to me are many fold - not least of which is that I get to meet and chat with lots of people from diverse backgrounds and often people that without an idea pinging between me and an existing contact I would not have met.
And then I find that there is a word to describe this.
Xenogamy
How do I know this? Well Steve Roesler posted on employee engagement and it is in the A-Z list - and there must have been a sigh of relief to find that there was a word for X which could be included!
So what I do has a name. I shared this with a friend who also is expert in the practice of xenogamy - I like it even better the more I use it - and we hooted with laughter. It seems to me that meeting for coffee has a new found serious edge to it now.
Wonderful! I’m going to use that word in my Age of Conversation ‘08 chapter. It’s exactly the concept I was looking for.
Thanks, Jackie!
It is the perfect word isn’t it! Glad you will be able to use it.