Ideas for becoming a better networker
| connecting- Load contact information onto my iPod Touch in a way that I can easily search
- Explore using a system like SugarCRM
- Add pictures to my contact records
- Schedule real-life contacts weekly
- Send updates to all of my contacts on LinkedIn and Facebook as well
- Store people’s goals in their address book records
- Find people’s blogs or other online profiles and put those in address book records; ask new acquaintances about those too.
- Improve hypersegmentation of e-mail by creating code templates and data structures
- Read more resources, and summarize them in hypersegmented monthly or quarterly e-mails
- Find a way to enable my network to share their goals with each other.
- Improve follow-up process by sending e-mail within three days of event
- Develop templates I can customize for events
- Organize an external event around a topic of common interest
- Summarize my weekly reports into monthly reviews and highlighted blog entries
- Visualize my contacts by last contact so that I can see who I haven’t been in touch with in a while
- Visualize my contacts according to interest
- Pick up a card scanner that works with Linux? (hmm, not needed yet)
- Remember birthdays as a good excuse to ask people what they’re planning for the next year of their life and how I can help
- Hold regular dinner parties
- Expand size of dinner parties
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