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Mid-Atlantic: Get Connected 24/7 By PAUL MORRIS
I just learned of a newly launched networking organization, Your 24-7 Network. You communicate with others through your computer either at work, home or traveling. I’ll explain a little more.

Southern Plains: Downtown Networking. By PETER BIADASZ
In all cities, the greatest concentration of business is downtown. It makes sense that you would find successful networking groups in this busiest of business districts. With that in mind, let me introduce you to The Downtown Business Network located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At one time Oklahoma was home to cowboys, Indians and the great dustbowl of John Steinbeck. Today Oklahoma is a modern, vibrant state with a strong aerospace industry, well matured energy companies, and of course, nationally recognized college football. Within this context we find business networking at it’s finest.

Entrepreneurial: Interview with Elayna Alexandra. By *LOUISE FLODIN
A mixed media artist, illustrator, graphic/web designer and art instructor Elayna Alexandra, enjoys the versatility of art. She believes that art is a powerful vessel for communication, self knowledge, healing and much more, and that this expression of creativity should be a part of every day life. After twenty-two plus surgeries for her disability, pseudarthrosis, she knows that finding a voice, which she has found through art, and using it is part of what makes our lives valuable and important.

Financial: Collaboration. By MEIRA FINDEL
I always enjoy finding people in the Financial Services industry that take a holistic approach to helping people find peace, harmony and balance with their money.

Through my networking on LinkedIn I met a very ambitious young man, Jonah Grunfeld. We met at my home office to get to know each other and see how we could refer clients to one another.

Minority-Based: Make a Difference. By MARIA ELENA DURON
This weekend the Business and Professional Women of Texas host their State Conference highlighting their theme “Make A Difference”. Talk about a diversity of individuals at a conference – from those retired, to those young up-and-coming careerists, from moms to singles, to those who own their business to those who work with great bosses and challenging ones and yes – even a few men.

Sports: NFL Coaches Weekend. By SCOTT MANTHORNE
18 NFL Coaches - 54 Executives - 3 days. This is a situation most of us would only dream of. But in the very near future, this gathering will take place for a few lucky business executives. An ultra-exclusive business networking opportunity, those in attendance will meet with the NFL Coaches in a meeting environment, leaving the field behind.

Technology: Tips and tricks for Webinars - Getting Ready. by MIKE O'NEIL
For over a year we have been teaching business professionals how to use LinkedIn for business, for recruiting and for finding a job. People would come from about 20 or 30 miles away and that was it. We needed a solution that would expand our audience. Solution #1 – we now hold them regionally (and soon nationally). Solution #2 - do them on the Internet.

Creativity in Networking. By HARVEY MATHASON
In the Shawshank Redemption Tim Robbins said to Morgan Freeman "You have to get busy living or busy dying." A similar theme surfaced during a teleconference I recently attended on Learning How to Learn: "Life Long Learning – the Antidote to Slow Death" by Patricia Parnham, a Ph.D. Psychologist. On the continuum of learning, Buckminster Fuller says "You and I are essential functions of the universe. We are exquisite anti-entropy."


JetNetting with HESHIE SEGAL
The best way to make great contacts at any event you attend is to be prepared. There is an art to getting ready...Really.I divide them into three main subheadings: Physical Readiness, Personality Readiness and Know-How Readiness (next issue).

Power Thought of the Week. By PATRICIA PARHAM, Ph.D.
Extrapolate Competitors’ Next Offerings

When your competitors offer services or benefits that exceed yours, it’s not enough to try to match them, forever be playing “catch up.” Extrapolate what their next logical move might be and incorporate that upgrade into your service and product offerings. If you’re friendly rivals, it may spur you both on to greater heights. Leap frog your way into a more powerful market position and stay on the cutting edge.

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Great Lakes: Inspired NetWorkers – How Did You Send That Thing?. By MARK STURGELL
Video email. I had never seen it before; at least, not like this. I was immediately engaged by the "filmstrip" in the body of the message, which beckoned me to "click here". I clicked [yes, it really is that easy] and expanded my growing professional network in the form of Doug Hart, an attorney and recently-turned entrepreneur, National NetWorker Great Lakes reader, and infectious enthusiast for growing your network using fully integrated, web-based video communications.

Southwest: Fair-Weathered Networking? By BETTE DAOUST, Ph.D.
Wow, the networking scene is exploding in Silicon Valley, as a matter of fact, there are more new groups every month this year, then there were in total over the last 3 years. Each group has a unique slant on how they want to drive business to members. This does not mean that groups that have been around for a period of time are losing their membership, it does mean, there are many more options for people to get connected and get more business.

Arts: Who Is Don Alder? By SIAN LINDEMANN
Don Alder (www.donalder.com) is a world class fingerstyle guitarist and has been called Vancouver, BC’s "best kept little secret" and he is my dear friend.

His performances are intense, passionate, and awe inspiring and Picque News Magazine says, "Alder can make a single instrument sound like a 4 piece band. The guy is like the acoustic Hendrix."

Legal:Networking and Matrimonial Law. By SCOTT FORCINO, Esq.
This month I had the pleasure of meeting with and interviewing Alan Dubow Esq.of Robinowitz, Cohlan, Dubow & Doherty LLP, in White Plains NY. This firm is known as the "go-to" firm in Westchester County concerning Real Estate closings and Real Estate law. Mr. Dubow, however, practices in the area of Matrimonial Law in Westchester County and New York City in the Supreme Court and Family Court. This area of practice includes representing clients seeking divorce or divorce mediation, child support/custody/visitation matters, pre/post-nuptial agreements and post-matrimonial enforcement matters. Mr Dubow was admitted to the Bar of New York in 1981 and has litigated in every county in New York state.

Network Marketing: Would You Sponsor YOURSELF? By CANDY WEBB
Everyone in network marketing knows that the success of their business is just two or three "great people" away. In a business driven by recruiting the "right kind" of people to join you, it is necessary to always be open for the right person when they cross your path. Some networkers advertise, some buy leads, some like myself have depended almost entirely on the "warm market"...but the age old question is the same regardless of the methodology – What are the characteristics of the perfect distributor?

Networking Success with IVAN MISNER, Ph.D.
We now live in a fully global society where it is imperative to have an awareness of cultural differences as they relate to networking etiquette. We often notice differences within our own states. Certainly between regions of the nation; but what about businesses that are networking with businesses in other parts of the world? We actually cross cultures with every person we meet.

Power Thought of the Week. By PATRICIA PARHAM, Ph.D.

Breathe New Life into Your Company -Improve Internal Productivity

What can you do to improve your internal operations? Talk to the people closest to work and ask for their ideas for improvement. Try their ideas, on a trial basis, and get them involved in measuring efficiencies and productivity. You’ll improve relations with your employees and your bottom line will benefit – both powerful incentives for trying something new.
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