Networking or netweaving is far more than reticulating. Richard Garber introduced a term he found of "netweaving". However one refers to or says building a base of others to integrate into your sphere we need to do it.
We've been networking since we were small children. We had our friends, family, neighbors or school mates. Once we reached high school we had a sphere of friends and classmates. Sometimes those were cliques. We then moved into college, families, and/or work. Our methods of acquiring these connections or friends vary.
The point is we've always done it. Yet when someone mentions the thought of networking now many tend to shiver, look the other way, and even feign to not understand what it really is. The best solution I can think of is get out there and have fun, meet people, and learn something. You'll find you have a lot of knowledge for many other folks.
Networking can be done well or poorly.
ReplyDeleteSee the article by Karen Susman titled the “Top ten networking mistakes: One night stands and other networking disasters”, and posted at:
http://www.networkingtoday.ca/articles/topten.htm
or more recently at:
http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=12576
More articles on how to do networking also are in the article archive at:
http://www.networkingtoday.on.ca/archive.htm
Richard Garber
Thank you Richard, you always have so much valuable information to add for folks. You are truely a researchers dream. Cleon
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