Posts Tagged ‘networking’

A 6-Step Guide to Networking for First Year MBA Students

If you are a first year MBA student, especially if you are at a lesser-known MBA program, networking is going to be an essential component to landing your summer internship. Start Early If there’s any piece of advice that I would give first year MBA students it’s that your job search stats the day you start school, and if you are really a go-getter even before you arrive at school. There are… Continue reading

September 24 2009 | By | Tagged: business, career, education, networking, planning, student, success, work-life | 3 comments»

This One’s Free: 10 Basic Tech Tips that Make a Difference

Coaching is usually about ‘the big change’: generating significant new business strategies or leadership behaviours. But along the way there are dozens of small adjustments that make a big difference as well. Many of those are in the realm of technology.Especially when working with small businesses and lone entrepreneurs, I suggest to a variety of tools and approaches to build capacity and pull down obstacles. Here are 10 tips that… Continue reading

September 1 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: business, Communication, email, networking, organization, Productivity, software, time | 18 comments»

Networking Without Power: Going Old School

Remember the old days of Rolodexes, before mobile phones had every gadget and gizmo now known to man (and woman)? Remember when we didn't have Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to connect with other businesspeople and had to actually, you know, talk to people?The way many of us network today, using online social networking and keeping track of things via Blackberry, iPhone, PDA and other "smart" devices, is superior in many… Continue reading

April 23 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: entrepreneur, networking, professional, small business | 9 comments»

Where Would You Be Today Without Social Media Tools?

Social media is becoming completely integrated in our lives. It has altered the way we communicate as human beings and changed the way we do business. It has flattened corporate hierarchies and tightened our relationships. Of course, traditional ways of networking and messaging still hold true, such as text messaging, email, phone calls and in-person "meetups" (tweetups in the social media world). The greatest part about this… Continue reading

March 2 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: community, facebook, linkedin, networking, promotion, social-media, social-networking, twitter, web-app | 16 comments»

Sharing Travel Plans: Can It Help You?

When I plan a trip, I make arrangements to meet up with people. I email anyone I know might be in area, announce my itinerary on Twitter and even add a trip to Dopplr. My efforts have paid off: I've met people I had already become fast friends with online in person. I've expanded the scope of projects by taking a few minutes away from my vacation to… Continue reading

February 27 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: networking, social-media, travel | 4 comments»

The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008

And so we arrive yet again at the end of another year. 2008 was at best a mixed bag – while the world was electrified by the US election and it’s promise of change, the global economy was shaken to its core as a decade of financial mismanagement and willful blindness finally caught up with us. Gas prices spiked, leading us all to ask some difficult questions about sustainability, efficiency… Continue reading

December 31 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: 2008, achievement, app, back-to-basics, Communication, creativity, goals, gtd, habit, iphone, networking, new year, Productivity, review, success, web | 39 comments»

Aggregate Your Social Networks with EventBox

Dealing with social media and networking is a chore. There's so much going on in too many different places, and keeping track of all that information is hard enough; managing your own is another story. EventBox, a beta application for Mac OS X Leopard, is designed with this problem in mind. The purpose of EventBox is to aggregate the various social networks you utilize in one handy desktop application… Continue reading

December 15 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: aggregation, bookmarking, eventbox, media, networking, social | 15 comments»

6 Essential Items to Get Any Device Connected to Your Home Network

Once upon a time, "getting connected" meant setting your computer desk up by a telephone port, whipping out a massive lugger of a dial-up modem and blocking your ears as the modem screeched and beeped its way towards connectivity. That cliched sound, still sometimes heard in commercials about the Internet that were evidently designed by someone who hasn't used it since 1995, was the bane of teenagers of the era… Continue reading

December 10 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: ethernet, home theater, network, networking, printer, wireless | 7 comments»

How To Pitch Successfully

Why should I listen to you? I have successfully pitched to local and national media outlets, ranging from the Albany Times Union, where I blog, to The Christian Science Monitor, MSNBC.com, E! Online, Newsweek, The LA Times, and others.Working as a blogger and journalist for the past eight years provided me with insight on how to pitch successfully. Proceed with the knowledge that you will only succeed in pitching if… Continue reading

December 1 2008 | By Brandon | Tagged: media, networking, pitching, press, promotion, writing | 9 comments»

How To Make A Bunch Of New Friends In Any New City

Even if you are naturally shy, these three tricks will help you to quickly build a new social circle in any new city. 1. Take Pictures One of the great things about taking pictures at an event or party is that it gives you an excuse to get in touch with the person later. Everybody loves seeing pictures of themselves, and it's very easy after taking a picture to say "Are you… Continue reading

November 24 2008 | By Brian | Tagged: friend, friendship, moving, networking, people, socializing | 26 comments»

In Uncertain Times, Prepare Yourself for New Opportunities

We live in uncertain times. Global financial collapse, rapid relocation of industries, emerging markets, political unrest, and just the fast pace of change in the Information Era in general all mea that things you take for granted today might be completely different tomorrow.Now is certainly not a time for rigidity. The career you’re working in this year might not even exist in 2010. And vice versa – the field you… Continue reading

November 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, change, economy, finance, networking, relationships, self-knowledge, self-promotion | 10 comments»

Help a Reporter (and Yourself) Out

Ever wonder where journalists and other writers find the experts they quote in their stories? In the past, reporters counted on their own networking, and on a service called ProfNet. ProfNet lets journalists search their database of experts and contact them individually to see if they’d be interested in being interviewed.Until recently, ProfNet has been about the only game in town, as far as finding real experts is concerned… Continue reading

September 1 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: expert, expertise, journalism, networking, promotion, reporter, writing | 11 comments»

9 Tips to Get the Most Out of Social Media

I recently had the opportunity to talk with social media expert Muhammad Saleem about social networking. For those of you new to the site, I interviewed Muhammad back in February on Lifehack Live.Muhammad is the one to watch in the social media sphere. He's a top-ranked user on Digg, Propellr, Reddit, and other social news sites, he has almost 2000 followers on Twitter, and he blogs or… Continue reading

August 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: networking, online, self-promotion, social-media, social-netowrk, web-app | 21 comments»

8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School

Lately, I've been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school!If I were to be 100% honest, probably the most valuable skill I learned in college was how to talk to girls (certainly a vital skill for happiness and success, but not what I was there to learn).The economics… Continue reading

August 15 2008 | By Brian | Tagged: audiobook, business, education, happiness, life, marketing, negotiation, networking, school, speed-reading, success, time-management | 111 comments»

10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much.Success, however it’s defined, takes action, and taking good and appropriate action takes skills. Some of these skills (not enough, though) are taught in school (not well enough, either), others are taught on… Continue reading

July 30 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: learning, networking, skill, speaking, success, thinking, writing | 218 comments»