Targeted Social Engagements

Money follows trust and trust is built over time. The point of RTSN is to multiply the number of connections you are a part of. The practical applications manifest in actions like connecting two people on a project. While the immediate effect is not a monetary gain for you it does increase your value in the network of both people you connected, thus raising the value of your network.
While RTSN is something to adopt in all parts of your life, another key concept is Targeted Social Engagements (TSE). TSE activity falls under two general categories.
The worst TSE is a Networking TSE where the point is to put a lot of people in a room and try to force business to happen. Because this is awkward and forced, it rarely results in much more than people enjoying some free food. Business is an exchange of goods or services for money, but money follows trust, and no one who just met at a table of cold cuts is going to have any reason to trust the other person. Business is difficult when forced.
A more effective TSE is the Personal TSE. Birthday parties, weddings, July 4th BBQs, and other gatherings based on a central actor (usually the host) and that have no overtones of business. People are relaxed and around people they already know or want to know. There is drinking, plenty of trust, and opportunities for a lot more business. (Of course a person who abuses a Personal TSE by handing our cards and trying to drum up business will soon be ostracized and ridiculed.)
Money Blog is testing out a new category of TSE. The Private TSE is a small group gathered to perform a specific task with the side-effect being closer personal relationships between participants. By co-ordinating the Private TSE we hope to gain the same benefits of RTSN but in a larger scale over time. Throughout history there is a pattern of great work coming out of Private TSE, and our theory is that we can create a template for a Private TSE than can be used by anyone.