I found your blog via StartupSpark.com and and delighted to learn about you. In fact, I would love to interview you for one of our webinars we host every week. If this is something you are interested you can contact me at heidi (at) wecai.org.

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Edith Yeung, who has a very inspirational blog, has posted her 7 Rules of Networking Made Easy: Ask Questions Offer Help Bring Business Cards Write Things Down Set Goal and Practice Follow Up Be Yourself at All Time Edith’s list……

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Most of all, it’s especially upsetting in this day and age of instant messaging, instant access, instant everything.

Worse than that is how you hear some people get jobs and the way they’re portrayed in the press. You read of someone who got a job because they knew somebody else. They make that seem instantaneous too. They don’t say anything in the article about all the delays between interviews, the way some companies stall their hiring practices, and how maybe a brief encounter led to a job opening 8 months later because somebody else left the company. When you’re then looking to assemble a network, employed or unemployed, and it doesn’t bear that fruit so immediately, you’re led to believe it doesn’t work.

I hate to say that as a resident of the SF Bay Area, I’m even less convinced that networking works as advertised. Around here, many in the corporate world pride themselves on having no time for anybody. That’s especially true of those making the 6-figure incomes, the ones who we hear get their jobs through networking. Reality is many of those people get hired because of the companies they’ve worked at, have a known product to their name, etc. It has become a status symbol to say that one works at least 60-70 hours per week, and boast that one doesn’t have time for one’s spouse nor kids. Therefore, to state that one has time to network to amidst all the work is a no-no.

The way you can do networking around here is to deliberately get a job that requires you to constantly contact other companies, including vendors and suppliers so that you get known by others while you’re doing your job for your employer.

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Carnival of Image & Influence | Vol. 2
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Welcome to the July 15, 2007 edition of carnival of leadership growth.

SpiKe presents Self-Help Myths: Procrastination posted at Organize IT.

Mike Harmon presents Bookkeeping Basics For Your Business posted at Basic Accounting, saying, &#822…

I’ve never ‘networked’ in my life. I go out & socialise & chat to people & if I subsequently make business contacts that way, fair enough. But ‘networkers’ are very obvious at social functions, and very, very annoying. If I want your business card, I’ll ask for it!

Think of yourself as a ’socialiser’ and you’ll be a lot more successful!