Networking depends on sharing. Sharing is the currency of friendship and at the core of what is your personal brand. Are you a guru who shares information, a connector who shares contacts, a thinker who shares ideas?
How you position YOU will determine how people perceive your personal brand. As well as you living true to that personal brand.

Key is to ensure that whatever you want to share…then share in a way that is surprising, share a little more than they were expecting.

Key is also finding ways to share – and this is where social media can play a HUGE part …read more

In training sessions I urge people to focus their networking efforts. In my early days I got carried away with all the new social media tools and joined EVERYTHING and even tried to keep very active at all the sites. Great strategy if you want to get burned out! After those early years I would share my best networking tips

Focus is the key to great networking.
Understand what you want to achieve and choose the tool which best suits your aim.
Register at sites and grab your name but then look for tools such as hellotxt which will allow you to cross …read more