Archive for Networking
Twitter’s Connecting Culture
I continue to be amazed by Twitter. As I wrote a couple months ago, I was very uncertain about the business value contained with this micro-blogging 140 character frame. From the outside looking in it seemed like a total waste of time. Something more for my teenage niece than for a business person! However, I [...]
Go For a Twhirl
I have been using Twitter now for about 6 weeks and am starting to realize the business application of this handy micro-blogging tool. As I have dug deeper and have begun following more people’s tweets, it has become somewhat difficult to keep up with it all when accessing it only via the web. Well, along [...]
Call To Action
I had the opportunity to sit in on a key-note address today at a conference here in Halifax. The speaker was a high-profile individual who was once our country’s ambassador to the United Nations and who has had amazing influence on the world stage in dealing with humanitarian crises such as HIV-AIDS and poverty. He [...]
Is Networking Dead?
I am pleased to say….no! The Argyle bar in Halifax was the host location of the second Halifax Social Media meet-up this evening. The group has grown some from last month’s inaugural gathering with somewhere just north of 30 people huddled in groups of 3-4 and circulating to build relationships and talk social media. Ben [...]
Blog Pack Anyone?
Ever heard of a “Blog Pack”? I hadn’t either until yesterday. The basic concept is that people with similar interests all band together in blog-land to help each other out. It is essentially a bloggers networking process. Through this process you join a group that creates a feed file for your RSS Reader called an [...]
Twitter Me This…
Twitter. A micro-blogging platform. I have been experimenting with it for about 3-weeks now and am starting to form some opinions. At first, I really could not see the business application. Turns out I was looking at it too narrowly. I was thinking, “why would I care if someone was eating cheese cake for dessert“? [...]
It’s All About Them
Are you are good talker or a good listener? When you meet someone for the first time, do you jump in with a whole overview of who you are and what you do? In any relationship, it develops much deeper when you are an active listener rather than an aggressive talker. This works in your [...]
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