Expressions of Relationships
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These are my rough notes of what is being written on the flip chart during the VRM meeting breakout on 2006-01-25.
Types of Relationships
- marriage
- business partnership
- counselor
- subscription
- friendship
- family
- contract
- employment
- confucian
- mentor / advisor
- citizenship
- familiar stranger
- customer
- vendor
- circle of trust
- sponsor
- priest / shaman / rabbi / ...
- advocate
Expressions of Relationships
You know it is a relationship when ...
- there are implications for the future
- expectations
- recognition
- subscription
- payment
- tipping
- genealogy
- hate sites
- strong feelings
- recommend
- contract
- employment
- ask advice
- expose yourself to vulnerability ("trust")
- blacklist
- conversation
- stalking
- repeat patronage
- badmouth
- reliance
- federation
- referral/introduction
- sponsor
- invite
- rebuff
- evaluate
- bug / PDA
- advocate
- commenting (e.g. blogs)
Some interesting questions
- Are we presuming that relationships are bidirectional? (e.g. crush) No ...