Last week I participated in a webinar (translation: an interactive, web-based training/information session) about networking, with Michael Dulworth, author of The Connect Effect. – Building Strong Personal, Professional, and Virtual Networks. In the webinar, Dulworth presented his Top 10 List (in Letterman-like fashion) of Effective Networking:
10. Build your personal brand.
9. Map your current network. It’s probably better than you think.
8. Go for quality over quantity.
7. Be interested in people and ask them a lot of questions. Networks are built through personal connections, and you never know how you might connect with someone.
6. Play “One Degree of Separation” to see whom you might include in your network.
5. Diversity, Diversity, Diversity! The more, the better.
4. Get organized – in whatever way works best for you.
3. Build a PBOD (Personal Board of Directors)
2. Help others in your network, first and foremost.
1. Keep networking at the top of your priority list, every day!!
As I look at my efforts to network, past and present, in person or virtual, realize that I have used some of these; but I could also have benefited greatly from using all of them. Which is what I intend to do going forward. There’s more at the author’s website: http://www.theconnecteffect.com/.
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Randolph Mase, Fiction Writer
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My Novels:
Death on Broadway
Death Beneath the Streets
Death in Central Park
Death in The Cloisters (under construction)
Nathan Hale
March 21, 2009 at 3:44 am |
I guess the fifth point
5. Diversity, Diversity, Diversity! The more, the better.
should be the number one on the list. But it’s a good 10 point startegy. I’ll have to copy it.
March 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm |
It’s a great list, isn’t it? I’m using it already. And I agree about diversity. Most of us tend to surround ourselves with those like us, when we should surround ourselves with those who are different from us. That’s diversity. Thanks for the comment!
Randolph Mase, Fiction Writer
http://www.randolphmase.com
http://twitter.com/randolphmase
My Novels:
Death on Broadway
Death Beneath the Streets
Death in Central Park
Death in The Cloisters (under construction)
Nathan Hale