http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/2008/10/17/gurteen-hits-sixty/ Half web producer, half group facilitator. Groups support: online and in the physical world. Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/2008/10/17/gurteen-hits-sixty/comment-page-1/#comment-3243 Jack Martin Leith Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:08 +0000 http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/?p=256#comment-3243 I'd like to add my own birthday wishes and fully endorse what you're saying here Ed. I detest those networking events where people are pressing business cards on each other and delivering their rehearsed elevator speeches. I think that's what gives networking a bad name. But building up your contacts book, keeping in touch with people with no sales pitch, helping people without needing them to return the favour - how can that possibly be a bad thing? I'm seriously thinking about creating a web page listing the people in my contacts book with a photo of each one, a brief description and link to their website. Competitors and all. The only problem is that it would be a long web page and would take a week to create - and I'd probably be inundated with strangers wanting to be my friend! So a big no-no to Networking 1.0, and a Paul McCartney double-thumbs-up to Networking 2.0. I’d like to add my own birthday wishes and fully endorse what you’re saying here Ed. I detest those networking events where people are pressing business cards on each other and delivering their rehearsed elevator speeches. I think that’s what gives networking a bad name. But building up your contacts book, keeping in touch with people with no sales pitch, helping people without needing them to return the favour – how can that possibly be a bad thing? I’m seriously thinking about creating a web page listing the people in my contacts book with a photo of each one, a brief description and link to their website. Competitors and all. The only problem is that it would be a long web page and would take a week to create – and I’d probably be inundated with strangers wanting to be my friend! So a big no-no to Networking 1.0, and a Paul McCartney double-thumbs-up to Networking 2.0.

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