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networking

How to Network in the New Year: Best of the Blog 2009

December 31, 2009

They call it networking, but it’s just people helping people. For our last post of 2009, let’s focus on the single greatest way to move your professional prospects forward in the new year: relationship building. Here are some of the top articles from this year to help you create strong, powerful professional relationships: Just Suck [...]

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Facebook’s new privacy settings make managing your personal brand easier

December 10, 2009

Today, I followed the simple 3-step process and updated my Facebook privacy settings. Facebook has been due for a privacy makeover for a while. For a platform so often recognized for helping people get fired, break up, and lose their disability benefits, their privacy settings were often very difficult to find, understand and use. So [...]

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Just suck it up and network already: 5 bogus excuses to let go of

December 3, 2009

Reasons why not to network are common. Everyone who’s not networking — actively developing positive, proactive relationships that can help them achieve their goals in life — has a “reason” that they don’t do it. Here’s a sampling of the excuses that people conjure to avoid networking, and why you have to let them go. [...]

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5 reasons to friend your network on Facebook

November 20, 2009

Are you connected to your aunt on LinkedIn? Does your boss follow your Twitter account? Are you connected to clients, vendors, or recruiters on Facebook? If not, why not? For all the fears about what might happen if the wrong person gets ahold of those photos of you in Vegas, in most cases, blending your [...]

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Are you making one of these 10 Facebook job search mistakes?

November 10, 2009

While LinkedIn is the daddy of social networking sites for business, its trendier cousin Facebook has been known to go business casual.  But before you go crazy using Facebook for your business networking, be sure to read up on some do’s and don’ts to make sure your online activities don’t lose you a job. Here [...]

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Networking your way into a new city

October 16, 2009

I grew up in Michigan. It’s a beautiful state, with plenty of fresh water and natural woodlands. I lived in the Upper Peninsula for a while, where a Saturday morning’s activity might be hiking to a waterfall or a boat ride on Lake Superior. Most of my time was spent in the Detroit area, where [...]

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Networking Ninja Tip: Know What You Need

October 15, 2009

There are hundreds of opportunities for networking, and if you take advantage of a fraction of them you’ll likely meet scores of people with whom you can “network.” You can take their info, follow up, schedule a face-to-face meeting. In fact, the networking events that I’ve been to lately are huge proponents of the face-to-face [...]

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How does your personal branding message cut through the noise?

October 14, 2009

If you’ve ever been to a networking event, you’ve probably had an experience like this: you meet fifteen or twenty people, and exchange business cards. You have perfectly professional conversations, talking about all the important companies that you’ve worked for, and the projects that you’ve worked on. Then you go home, and you really remember [...]

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The new digital divide, or Why Twitter will change the world

October 12, 2009

A couple weeks ago I was at a small gathering of senior-level women, sharing professional experiences in a cozy living room over wine and snacks. I mentioned that I was teaching a two-hour workshop on Twitter for business. The response from one woman was not uncommon. “Two hours? On Twitter?” The class was last week, [...]

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5 ways to rock at networking

October 8, 2009

Do you want to be a networking rock star? Set yourself apart from the crowd. Rock stars didn’t get that way by blending it in and playing it safe.They cultivate their personalities, play up their talents, and make a splash. And their fans love them for it. They’re unconventional. They don’t follow the rules. They [...]

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