As you know from the sign-up page for the New Networking e-book, I am a great fan of sharing quality
information as a way of building your network. Here are some links you
can share with your friends that each illuminate some aspect of skilled
networking.
Although
this article is geared towards small business owners, I think it has
something for anyone who realizes that if they want to start a business
one day, they need to start building a network today.
This isn't my e-book -- but I think it has some valuable ideas.
Here is the description: "Though it may be hard to grasp, networking
is much easier than you think. Forget the myth that you need to be an
extrovert to network well. You don't. Or that you must network nonstop.
Absolutely not. Or that networking is all about working the room at a
big event with a big fake grin plastered on your face. Far from it."
Remember
the early 1990's when email was just being introduced, and it was all
the rage? Some people tried to hold out, waiting for the nonsense to
pass, and it just never went away.
Today's nonsense is called Facebook.
Click
below to see how Obama used it to get collected, and become convinced
that social networking is not a passing fad, but a new way to connect,
stay in touch and foster relationships of all kinds.
Click here for the article.
The Importance of Your Own Email Address
There are quite few people being laid off nowadays, in case you
hadn't noticed. Often, they aren't given too much advance notice
before security taps them on the shoulder and they are asked to "step
away from the computer."
I don't want to put what we Jamaicans call "goat mout" on you at
all. But, you should be prepared to walk, and one thing that that you
absolutely need is your own private email address.
My advice is simple - make sure you have a private, permanent, and
that you have saved ALL your contacts within it, along with any files
that are important.
I recommend Gmail for the generous storage space it grants, but Hotmail,Yahoo and AOL are also decent alternatives.
Do it NOW if you haven't!
I recently created a group on Facebook for readers of the New Networking: Caribbean 2008.
