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Prof.Dr.Aung Tun Thet Based on “Now Is the Time to Reconnect With Your Dormant Social Network”, by
8/4/2020 Thomas Roulet and Ben Laker, MIT SMR,April 22, 2020
 • Opportunity to reconnect with people
• Lost touch with
• Physically distant
• Experiencing same uncertainties

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PROFESSIONALS & MANAGERS

• In-person events offer unique opportunities for

strengthening social networks
• Reinforcing strong ties
• Enabling people to bond with others they already
have connections with

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PROFESSIONALS & MANAGERS

• Creating ‘weak’ ties

• New relationships with others with complementary
interests, resources, and information
• Without ability to meet with friends and colleagues
and to make new connections
• Social networks weaken
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WORKING FROM HOME (WFH)

• Perfect opportunity reawaken dormant ties

• Underexploited links and relationships — university
friends, coworkers from previous job, former neighbours,
or distant relatives

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POWER OF RECONNECTING DORMANT RELATIONSHIPS

• Share similar experiences

• Sensemaking
• Gathering information
• Sharing personal updates
• Reopen online discussions
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POWER OF RECONNECTING DORMANT RELATIONSHIPS

• Inputs from dormant and weak ties more valuable

inputs from close friends, colleagues, and family
• People with whom we have stronger ties provide
redundant information - share same background and
experience

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POWER OF RECONNECTING DORMANT RELATIONSHIPS

• Creative action empowered by non-redundant

knowledge - enable innovation and help people
avoid dangers of conformity
• Dampen overload of redundant news updates and
information overload

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POWER OF RECONNECTING DORMANT RELATIONSHIPS

• Expose to different ideas and fresh perspectives

• Harness creativity to find potential solutions and paths

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POWER OF RECONNECTING DORMANT RELATIONSHIPS

• Find next career move - business partnership or job

opportunity
• ‘Snowball’ effect: Open door to other connections and
entire parts of network that remained underutilized

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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: PATH TO REAWAKENING DORMANT TIES

• Use of social media to reawaken dormant ties

• Zoom — offer accessible means for reconnecting
with long lost neighbours, friends, and colleagues
• Offer opportunities for synchronous conversations

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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: PATH TO REAWAKENING DORMANT TIES

• Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, and

Microsoft Teams offer opportunity to write to each
other in between calls
• Build empathy and capitalize on positive emotions
of reviving important connections

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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: PATH TO REAWAKENING DORMANT TIES

• Offer new source of moral support

• Platform to share ideas
• Access to others’ perspectives in situation of high
uncertainty

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REAWAKENING DORMANT TIES

• More resilient
• Investing in relationships - old and new
• Engage in meaningful reconnections
• Relationships vital!

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