Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Resources

I give a popular workshop called "I Hate Networking!" in the San Francisco Bay Area. To get the blog started, I'm going to list some of my resources that others find helpful.

The first of these are some online communities you might like to check out: LinkedIN, which I belong to; Bay Area Link Up, which I also belong to; Ryze; Friendster; Tribe; My Space.

Networking, when done well and done right, is about developing relationships. It's about connecting and listening, and helping out. It's about exchanging value. I'll talk more about these ideas as the blog develops, but for now, think of networking as listening and paying attention -- not as selling and spewing your 30 second elevator speech.

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