the biggest mistake I see is a lack of follow-up after meeting someone. If you meet an important contact and exchange business cards, be sure to send a quick email when you get back to the office. This can help solidify the relationship and open up the doors for further correspondence down the road”.
This to me doesn’t apply just to the business world. It is an important part of the social network concept to bring people together to share ideas, thoughts and interests.
Social Networking has opened a lot of doors for people. There have been a lot of successes recounted by people. An instance would be the article Six Degrees of Cooperation by Yasmine Ghahremani where Andra Marx a senior account at Intralinks strikes a deal thereby making millions of dollars for the company. According to her
“the deal involved some fortuitous timing, but it certainly wouldn't have transpired if I hadn't been able to connect the dots”.
My question then is, how do you know which dot to connect? As in whom out of your social network group should you keep as a serious contact or not? Writing this post has made me remember my experience on Facebook which I posted on my first blog post when talking about stalkers and privacy. Can a person like the one mentioned be a dot for me?
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You raise a very good question, Onyee. I think this ties in to the need to meet a contact face-to-face. It is always important to follow-up after meeting someone, but it can be tough figuring out "which dots to connect." Hopefully, after some face-to-face meetings you can tell pretty quickly who to follow up with and who to leave alone.
Thanks Andrew.I guess you are right. Nothing beats face to face contact. At least you would be able to know to some extent.
Our views are aligned. Our posts both bring about the same notion and the importance of face to face meetings. Also, you really never know which dots to connect, but I do feel that certain dots can be looked past by checking out LinkedIn or other social networks.
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