Your Business Card Collection

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Like most of us, you probably wear a lot of hats for your business: clients, deadlines, phone calls, shuttling the kids…Before you know it you’ve got dusty piles of cards on your desk that you shuffle through to remember someone’s name or phone number.

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Scott Ginsberg's 234 notes on Speaking

Since The National NetWorker has its own Speaker's Bureau, I thought it would be fitting to promote it as well as a very clever networker named Scott Ginsberg at the same time.

"234 Things That I've Learned about Creating, Delivering & Marketing Speeches" is Scott ("That Guy with the Nametag") Ginsberg's free e-book that's in this week's Front Porch Newsletter.

Here are a few of my favorites:

32. "Motivational Speakers" don't exist. Nobody can motivate anyone to do anything other than themselves. It's a cliche. It's a SNL skit.

53. Your clients are buying YOU. Not your speech. Not your topic. Not your expertise. Not your book. Not your website. Not your testimonials from other clients. Not your one sheet. You. They are buying you. So you better be yourself.

124. The world believes that professional speakers are egomaniacle, sell-sell-sell, product-hawking, self-centered, attention whores who do nothing but puke fluffy stories to audiences all day and get paid ridiculous fees for doing so. I'm not saying this is true, I'm just saying: this is what people think of speakers. So, what are you going to do to combat the stereotype?

And now I'm off to figure out YouTube! Thanks for keeping me on my toes.

-WDK
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This Week in The National NetWorker eZine

New for the week of 10/15/2006...

"Inspiring NetWorkers - Chicagoland", by Mark Sturgell, Great Lakes Bureau Chief

What is an “Inspired NetWorker”? To be inspired is to be “divinely affected”, so the Inspired NetWorker is one whose thoughts, feelings, actions…his or her very breath and being are drawn forth from and applied to developing and maintaining meaningful, giving relationships.
Chicagoland NetWorker Jason Jacobsohn is an Inspired NetWorker. Jason believes relationship building is a key component to personal and business success. Personally, and in his professional role as director of the Small Business Development Center and a Business Advisor at the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC), Jason enjoys helping others by making introductions, planning events, and sharing resources through his email newsletter, “Network Your Way to Success”, and his website at http://www.jacobsohn.com/. He also speaks about networking, writes the Tech Connect column for MidwestBusiness.com, and is President of DePaul Entrepreneurs Network.

"Dr. Elizabeth Kearney, Known for Her Generosity", by Bette Daoust, Ph.D., Southwest Bureau Chief

I have the privilege and delight to know a person that is known everywhere I go on the west coast and elsewhere. The person has received recognition from ABWA as business woman of the year in 2003, 2004, and 2005. If that was not enough, she was also selected as one of fourteen business owners to be honored in Washington DC in 2004 and 2005 for her contributions to business. Yet she humbly says, I really didn’t do anything to deserve this honor. I really disagree.
Dr. Elizabeth Kearney currently lives in the Bay Area of San Francisco and is very active with many groups including Astra (Board of Directors), San Leandro Chamber of Commerce, Northern California Leadership Forum (Chair) and many more. She takes my breath away.

"Hotspotting: Part 2", by Mike O'Neil, Technology Editor

Last month, we discussed how to get WiFi working so you can begin “hotspotting”. Specifically, we discussed: What WiFi is. How to see if you have it. How to get it working. Where you can find it. This month, we will merge WiFi Internet access and networking with people. But, first a little story about a real world WiFi experience from the field - literally.

"The NetWorking Empire of Cesar Plata and infoBayArea.com", by Jan Altman, Entrepreneurial Editor

If anyone at all could be called a clearinghouse for networking in the San Francisco Bay Area, I'd vote for Cesar Plata and his infoBayArea.com. Hands down. He's even been called "the Craig's List for business owners and professionals." Around here, that's a compliment worth more than a lifetime pass across the high-priced Golden Gate Bridge.

"The Right Choice, Part 3: Due Diligence", by Candy Webb, NetWork Marketing Editor

In this segment, I am going to talk about “doing your due diligence”. This is a very interesting segment because I know unequivocally that MOST PEOPLE DO NOT DO THIS! Most people make an emotional choice and quite frequently, their choice has almost nothing to do with the company but has more to do with the person bringing it to them!

"NetBeing: Introducing the 5 R's of Relationship", by Ron Sukenick, Contributing Writer

In my last article, we established that there is a fundamental desire in all of us to be in relationship, and to develop relationships that flourish. The desire for relationship and developing deeper relationships is a basic and universal human need. This desire is a more popular subject today than at any other time in history.

As ever,

Thank you for your interest!

TNNW

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Network of Spiritual Progressives: New Organizer Position

• Are you a dynamite organizer and skilled public speaker with a deep commitment to the NSP vision of healing the world while transforming ourselves?
• Do you have creative ideas for national projects that would raise consciousness around a New Bottom Line--AND the commitment and skills to organize them into existence?

If so, I'd like to invite you to apply for our New Organizer Position.
Here is the posting:
The Network of Spiritual Progressives, an international, interfaith grassroots organization based in Berkeley, California seeks a full-time organizer. The job will involve planning and executing an aggressive membership drive, supporting local chapter leaders around the country, planning and writing resource materials for local chapter leaders, coordinating volunteers, and organizing national projects that will give the NSP and its parent organization, Tikkun, media and public attention. This job is for a "people person" with excellent communication and membership recruiting skills. You'll need a lot of energy, the ability to speak publicly on difficult and contentious issues, good organizational skills, a sense of humor and a passionate dedication to the NSP and Tikkun philosophy as outlined in the Core Vision, available from www.spiritualprogressives.org. The position is a salaried and not hourly position and will require more than 40 hours a week including some evenings and weekends and will be primarily based out of our Berkeley office.

Please read all of the information on our website, www.spiritualprogressives.org as well as The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right by Rabbi Michael Lerner, and then send to nichola@tikkun.org or fax to 510-644-1255 a self-revealing letter indicating what draws you to this vision and how your skills fit our needs.

PLEASE NOTE: We know that there are thousands of wonderful people out there working with this movement, and we only have the resources to hire one of you. Please think carefully about whether you will feel so bad if you don't get this position that you won't be able to continue to do this work. If so, please don't apply because we can't afford to lose you and all that you already bring to our organization!Thank you for all you are doing to make this vision real.

Nichola Torbett, National Organizer
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