Communication in Groups and Organizations

The course discusses the various types of social networks and the effects and benefits of creating them. While the benefits are interesting to learn about, I feel we glossed over techniques on how exactly to form effective bonds within a network that we can leverage in the future. For example, all of us being in this class puts us in a social networks, and given that most of us are business or IS majors, I would assume we have similar professional goals. However I would say that though being in this class places me in a social network, I haven't particularly made any connections that I feel I would be able to leverage in the future. For example, I doubt many of you would expect an email from me 5 years from now asking if you're interested in working on a business venture with me. Essentially, I feel that though the course does cover how to optimize social networks to connect disjoints groups in a strategically advantageous way, the course does not cover how to actually use communication to create social networks that are beneficial to us. Any thoughts or comments?