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Was just catching up on my RSS feed and saw that Jessica Howard from UpMo quoted my Networking is Good For You post from January 14th. I’m pretty excited. I just recently got turned on to UpMo. Jessica continues the topic of extracting long term value from your network in her post: Getting Feedback: Let’s [...]

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Picked this up from Tom Peters who I think picked it up from Guy Kawasaki. Excellent piece on the need for failure in order to achieve long term success.

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great link from 37signals. I will pull the whole quote here: “It is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about [...]

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Excellent and relevant post from Scoble on socially networking yourself when you are out of work. Clean your facebook contacts. No one cares where you went to lunch. stop twittering about it. blog about what you know

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Ok…first a programming note of sorts: I have launched mikelally.net! I haven’t cracked the code on making typepad play nice with the new site but I am working on it. I would like to thank Harry Joiner from marketingheadhunter.com for his guidance and counsel (as always). Mikelally.net will serve as my top level place-holder on [...]

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Rajesh Setty has a great post over on Tom Peters’ site listing the massive confusion around personal branding. This is something that I am coming to grips with lately. I believe in the Brand You. I believe in knowing yourself: your skills, what you excel at doing, what you LOVE doing. I also believe in [...]

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UpMo posts a follow up to their study of elite networkers that forces a few powerful issues. The larger your network, the harder it is to create powerful advocates. Advocates are defined as people that can help you. Help. Not hurt. Are their people in your network hurting you because they are really just acquaintances [...]

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Hannah has turned me on to upmo.com Link to a page on their site that lists 3 networking email templates. You could easily use them as a phone call script as well. Templates: Getting Reconnected Job-finder Intro A Thankful Request I would lose the “I’m incredibly busy right now” line from the Job-finder Intro template. [...]

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Hannah linked to a study by UpMo.com on the habits of elite networkers. She linked via facebook so I don’t feel like I am repeating anything. It’s an interesting article that shows the linkages between networking and career success and income status. There are some good takeaways from the article: 1. Network. Do it. 2. [...]

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Great post from Rajesh Setty on tompeters.com I love Raj – he lists a set of questions you should be asking yourself if you are wondering if you are safe. 1. Is your job CORE to the company? (This is what happened to me.) 2. What will the company LOSE by eliminating this job? 3. [...]

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