I attended a meetup for local bloggers last week and it’s always nice to connect the faces behind the screens. Some had personal blogs, while others had sites geared towards webdev and technology, travel, business, food, and what have you. The main requirement for starting up any sort of blog is a keen interest in the subject, so we were united not as much by our topic niches but by our commitment and passion for what we wrote about. If you think about it, you might as well like what you’re going to be writing if you’re going to stay committed and expend all that time and effort on it.
Which brings me to the next point…
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Previously, “social networking” was the exclusive territory of sites like Myspace and Facebook. Now, a ton of smaller, more specialized social networking sites have crept up, each serving a particular niche. Here are a few notable ones…
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Last night I went to an event at the LaFayette Hotel for local Twitter users to meet up and get to know each other. Drinks were had, along with breaded chicken tenders for appetizers (as well as some wierd red quesadillas that went mostly untouched), and many pretty faces. I’ve met some new Twitterfolk — Twits? Twitteers? Twitterers? Twitters? That last one sounds like a breaded appetizer — and it was a great chance to expand my social network.
A lot of the people who attended either work directly or are interested in new and developing technologies (a fancy way of saying “I like/get paid to play on the Internet”), so it was a comfort to find that — should I say it? We were all birds of a feather.
Now, I must confess, I’ve always been a little weary of diving deep into social media…
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I attended the Net.working event at the beautiful rooftop J6Bar last night and met some wonderful contacts. I’ve been fortunate enough to build my business solely on referrals so far, but I wanted to be proactive and find new opportunities to keep myself busy. Most of my clients so far have been from out of San Diego, and I wanted to use this opportunity to connect with some local small businesses that I could start cultivating a relationship with. There is a different dynamic about working with local people who live and work in the same area that you do, and who deal with the same local problems and celebrate the same local successes as you.
In the spirit of sharing some general insights I’ve learned, here are five tips to keep in mind next time you go to a networking event:
Tags: building, business, mindtouch, relationship, Social Media
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