As part of the book, we want to feature your real world stories of how having (or not having) an online profile has affected your life, matters of the heart, friendships, health, and career.

Did you get engaged on Twitter? Meet your best friend on Facebook or FriendFeed? Find a job online using your network? Start a company using online connections? Help fight a disease or fight for a cause? We want to interview you on how social media and the online world has touched your life.

If you study this trend, we want to talk to you also! We’re seeking industry experts and global thought leaders to talk about their research into this new online world and how it translates to the offline world in fields like psychology, sociology, medicine, science and more.

If you would like to be interviewed about your research or tell us your story, please comment below and we’ll reach out to you for the book!

The basis for the book is the simple yet heady premise that your online profile will become your greatest asset as we march toward the future. It will be worth more than your house, your car, the status of your parents, your race, your gender, your monetary background, and more. Because of the way the online world (not just social media) works as aliving breathing resume, an extension of your whole life experience, it can be leveraged continually to direct the path of your life.

Some of the things we touch on in the book:

• Why we will have more online friends than offline friends
• Why we will give money to strangers and date people we’ve never met
• Why having a strong online presence will be critical to ones social and financial survival
• The value of eliminating traditional expectations
• The diminishing emphasis of the handshake and face to face interaction
• The decline of the traditional resume in favor of the living resume
• How it’s no longer about “First Impressions” but “Lasting Impressions”
• The expectation that any online activity could be a contribution to society and your future
• Why providing information on a “need to know” basis will no longer be acceptable
• The shift to a global economy and the need for an online presence to compete
• Why social media will be at the core of our daily lives
• Online presence as validation
• Wisdom and peril of the crowd
• Industry and technology trends and how they will affect you
• So much more… I’d have to disclose too much of the proprietary information in the book to list everything here, though.