Networking. Is your circle too close?

One comment | Posted July 22nd, 2009 in Customer Focus, Ideas | Tags: , , , ,

Back in February I wrote about why we network with others. I’ve scheduled a four networking events using a social media group on LinkedIn.  While each event hasn’t been attended by a large number of people, we have had very meaningful conversations at each event. Thus far everyone that has attended one of the events [...]

Why do you network with people?

4 comments | Posted February 28th, 2009 in Career, Customer Focus, Ideas | Tags: , ,

I’ve been planning a networking function for present and past employees at my current place of work. Planning in this context, is really just trying to find a venue. That’s challenging because there is a wide geographic dispersion where everyone lives. The last event I planned was close to my house and I received a few [...]