LinkedIn is one of my favorite Web 2.0 apps. It gives me a great way to keep business contacts. With the latest feature, LinkedIn Answers, it creates another dimension to receive great insights and advices from professionals. In short, it is a grown up version of Myspace. Guy Kawasaki suggests 10 more ways (his readers…

Many people see the importance of networking, but it may be one of the difficult aspects in business. Especially for introverts, they may feel uncomfortable in networking. Rob May at Businesspundit shares some great tips on networking as an introvert to overcome. Networking is an investment, not a nuisance. At first, you have to kiss a lot…

Over the past several days, I’ve had the opportunity to meet several people, from presidents of corporations, to really important people like teachers of children with learning disabilities. I’ve had the opportunity to hear about a lot of businesses, and have received a lot of interesting offers in the mix. But what was really fun…

I’m coFounder and Organizer of PodCamp, which is coming up in a week or two, and I just got an email from a fellow podcaster asking me about how I’ll be planning to manage the influx of business cards, ideas, and conversations/follow-up this kind of an event will bring with it. I thought…

I’ve done it once and I plan to do it again. I use Flickr to hire people for my projects. I needed some website art for a project I’m doing, and though I am capable of doing my own art, I realized that there were people who were far more talented than me. So, I…

Heidi Miller is a professional trade show presenter, a business that requires you to meet and connect with all different types of people. The business, like many businesses, runs on human interaction skills. Here, Heidi tells us how to build relationships and sustain them using these highlights: Send a handwritten thank-you note. (sound famililar?) Send…

I’ve attended some great conferences over the last few months. In August, I’m helping put on PodCamp Boston, and then in September, I’m attending the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in California (LifeHack.org readers: if you want to meet up while I’m out there, get in touch!)…

People have unique skills and talents, and over the course of your days, you meet new people and connect to begin new relationships all the time. This means you also expand the very nature of your pool of people to consider asking for help from should a problem arise. For instance, I met some new…

First of all, if you’re going to attend an event, have business cards that give people a way to contact you. If you’re not going as a representative of your current day job, make your own cards, and put your own sites and links and contact information on them. But then what? Or maybe you’re…

I’m at BarCamp Boston, an unconference being hosted in Monster.com’s headquarters. I’m surrounded by really brilliant people, mostly representing themselves, their small startups, their side jobs. I’ll tell you something: Learn to Connect Bring business cards. Get them made by someone like VistaPrint or make them at Staples. Whatever. But get some cards, and…

AlwaysOn has a new installment of their series on the IM Generation (post Gen-X, post Gen-Y, born after 1994) and how they will interact with the marketplace, how they use computers, and how they see the world. It dovetails well with recent articles in FastCompany magazine about how this generation and Generation Y treat work…

Conversation is becoming a lost art, replaced by endless talk. To converse is to share ideas and learn from one another in the process. It demands listening and talking in equal degrees. Talk is one-way.

Digging through articles on networking – Keith Ferrazzi, CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, has given 10 rules of networking. The article is pretty insightful and fun to read. Networking is one of the hard skill to master for business world. However once it is mastered, you can go through personal connections to get useful information and…