Quote: (01-30-2013 05:06 PM)pitt Wrote:
Very interesting Thomas, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Could you tell me what places do you go for networking?
I'm still experimenting with venues (you can look at gmanifesto's list for ideas).
Excluding your place of employment, thus far, the most useful networking occurred in industry-specific events (like conferences) and industry-specific short training courses.
The most useless, is any gathering which has 'networking' in its title or description. A networking meeting is only useful for practicing your openers and ramble; any person worth networking with is not going to attend a 'networking event'.
Other places I've attempted to network:
- coffee shops
- book stores
- car dealerships
- grocery stores
- associations like internations
- malls
- bars
- McDonalds
- the neighbourhood where I live
I'm still looking for my fishbowl, somewhere I can network effortlessly.