Networking is valuable but not always easy. Here are some links that can help you improve and sharpen your skills.
Over at TheChangeBlog is a great post about How to Sharpen Your Networking Skills.
Jonathan Mead has 10 Tips for Effective Networking.
wakeuplater writes about 5 Mindsets to Reshape Your Networking. I like this part:
Instead of fitting [...]
Xing has launched My Network Value which is a tool that puts a money value on your network. In the Gallery you can compare your own network value, there are graphs by country and industry.
Personally I am not too keen on calculating a money value for my network. I get more from my network than [...]
LinkedIn has a blog where you can find information about LinkedIn, things like new features and how-to’s.
There is a post titled 3 ways to make networking work, a good post about networking valid not only at LinkedIn.
I am interested in intersections where knowledge areas overlap and create new possibilities. JibberJobber is an interesting mix of career tool, contact manager and a help in job seeking. Networking is great, a network is something one shall build and maintain before it gets urgent to need one. The advantage with a contact manager like [...]
I have joined Twitter but can not really make up my mind about the service. Twitter is a kind of micro-blog, each message is maximum 140 characters. You can follow what your friends at Twitter post about and it is a quick and easy way to communicate.
Jason Alba has a post titled Twitter – Effective [...]
While reading posts over at Brazen Careerist I came across this text:
Requesting a specific action and providing a specific benefit are very important – Tell people what you want from them so they can give it to you.
This is line with the method for introductions we used at our XING Oeresund BC After Work [...]
It is often called an elevator pitch but is just as useful as your introduction to people you meet at networking events. There are different views on how long the pitch shall be, 15-30 seconds or up to a minute. In my opinion, short is better.
An “elevator pitch” is a quick and concise way to [...]
The Care and Feeding of Your Network is a useful document at the ChangeThis website. You can read about the Five steps to greatness in Networking and more about networking.
Their definitions of the word network makes you think:
Network (n): a group of people that are all well-known by a person.
Network (v): helping people that you [...]
Krissy Jackson has written a great article about the seven mistakes people make. In brief they are:
They don’t include a photo on their profile page
They don’t fill in their profile
They don’t post on group discussion boards
They do not practice the four essentials of the likeability factor
When they post they don’t put their URL into [...]
