Comments on: Effective networking – as easy as public speaking http://openambition.com/2009/03/19/effective-networking-as-easy-as-public-speaking/ The juncture of success and meaningful failure Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Zaballos http://openambition.com/2009/03/19/effective-networking-as-easy-as-public-speaking/#comment-73 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:05:37 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/effective-networking-as-easy-as-public-speaking/#comment-73 Well put, Jennifer, and what a great twist on where I went with my post. The networking I was referring is definition #3, but I think expanding the conversation to include this further definition enriches the whole topic in a way I hadn’t explicitly contemplated.

The networking I was referring to is in fact disseminating information, and the network is the set of personal relationships that convey the information you shared with that first contact. The fascinating part is how unpredictable the path can end up being, you never know who will remember an observation you shared, and with whom that person will share it with. That’s the whole beauty of effective networking, discovering an opportunity or a potential real interpersonal relationship from that first conversation.

Thanks for sharing your insight, and expanding the scope of the dialogue!

]]> By: Jennifer Drobac http://openambition.com/2009/03/19/effective-networking-as-easy-as-public-speaking/#comment-70 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:41:30 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/effective-networking-as-easy-as-public-speaking/#comment-70 Peter–
I love public speaking but I hate “networking” so I was curious about your title. I read on and still didn’t get it. So, I went to OED online. Networking: 1. To cover (something) with a network [Is this what spiders do with their webs?] 2. To broadcast simultaneously over a network of radio or television stations [This is what I call public speaking!]; 3. To engage in social or professional ‘networking’ [The source of confusion?]; 4. To link (computers) together to allow the sharing of data, interactive operation, and efficient utilization of resources; to incorporate into a computer network [Bingo, this is networking (and, I believe, your comfort zone)!]

Now I see the connection. The networking I love is teaching. The networking I hate is linking with others when I don’t share the same operating system and don’t speak the same language. However, like you, Peter, I love networking when we are on the same wave or share the same language. Today, we need to “network” more and find a common language—as Peter Finch did in 1976 (when you graduated from our high school) in NETWORK.
http://www.youtube.com`/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08

I will start: To Madoff and GM and AIG and a few others, I say, “I am a human being, goddammit! My life has value!” How is that for networking?

Cheers to you and everyone in your network, Jennifer

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