Can joining a Knowledge Network help you during covid ?
The desire to know more is a primal instinct. Sharing your tangible knowledge can be fulfilling, keep you current with industry use cases, and help you stay focused on the big picture.
With gathering restrictions in the Covid situation, what can you do to keep yourself relevant and current in your industry ?
Consider offering your expertise as a side hustle at a knowledge network.
What is a Knowledge Network ?
A knowledge network is a company that offers on demand advice to executives, organizations, and entrepreneurs through its directory of experts in an array of industries, functions, and geographies. Experts in the network continue their day job, and offer real world expertise from the comfort of their home by online meetings and phone conversations.
As an expert in a knowledge network you offer your expertise and use case examples as enriched advice in conversations ranging from 1 hour — 4 hours — get exposure to the kinds of questions that are being asked in the industry in your domain, and earn per-advice pay at the expert rate in your industry.
For example I am a software industry strategy advisor at an expert network called GLG — as a GLG advisor I get the opportunity to stay intellectually stimulated and current in my field while making $200-$500 per advisory meeting without having to worry about meeting arrangement and networking details.
How to join a Knowledge Network ?
Knowledge networks expert circles are generally invite-only. This means that you can join free of cost if one of their business development professionals reach out to invite you, or if one of the experts in their network invites you to join. Many executives and SMEs are already enrolled in one or more of the networks, so you should be able to tap on your LinkedIn contacts to get an invite.
Top Knowledge Networks
The top 5 knowledge networks you can join are:
- GLG — Gerson Lehrman Group
- Guide point
- Alpha sights
- Evalueserve circle of experts (nitron)
- Atheneum
You can also join niche networks if they happen to fall in your area of expertise. For example Clarity enables you to share Startup Advice, Candour focuses on the energy industry, Thirdbridge is globally focused, Bioinformatics and Techspert focus purely on the life sciences industry.
Expert meetings
Experts join the networks for free, and can signup to do 1-on-1 advisory meetings between 1–2 hours each — all that is required is to provide your areas of expertise, brief bio, and linked account for receiving payments.
Panel meetings
Most networks offer experts an opportunity to participate as panelists as well. Panels require a few hours of preparation the first time around. They are usually managed by a panel moderator and can run multiple hour sessions on a day or over a set of days.
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