Six degrees of separation is the hypothesis that anyone on Earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances with no more than five intermediaries.

According to Networlder Melissa Giovagnoli, it’s really a smaller world than that. After more than twenty years’ experience assisting thousands of entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals to decrease the time, effort, and cost it takes to create new business opportunities, she has developed Two Degrees, a winning system for working within this increasingly networked world.

In her upcoming book, "Two Degrees: How We Have Gone from Six Degrees to Two", Melissa explains, "The good news is that the system I created, Two Degrees, will provide the direction and motivation to create the connection they have lost with the onset of the Internet and its dramatic effect on the way we do business. Ever since the Six Degree experiment developed by mathematicians, Strogatz and Watz, revealed that, surprisingly, we are, on average, only six people away from anyone we would like to meet, networking advocates have been pursuing a path that would reduce that number. Today, the Internet proves that this number has decreased dramatically."
 

Today, SOCIAL NETWORKS are connecting people.
And in the business world, it’s all about LINKED IN.
According to LinkedIn,

"Your professional relationships are key to your professional success. Our mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have."

LinkedIn is an online network of experienced professionals from around the world,
representing 130 industries. -

When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.

Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.

Through your network you can:

• Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended
• Be found for business opportunities
• Search for great jobs
• Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
• Post and distribute job listings
• Find high-quality passive candidates
• Get introduced to other professionals through the people you know

"Since there are indeed great advantages to online networks — including promoting your professional strengths and personal interests as well as connecting with like-minded people — consider creating an account on a site like LinkedIn."    ABC  NEWS