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Networking tip: where to find great information to share

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Ball social mediaIf you want to impress your online audience with your expertise, you’ll need to share useful and interesting content via your social networks. It can be a challenge, because you don’t have a lot of extra time to peruse many online sources to tap into the best resources to post on your various social networks. Luckily, there are many sites that provide useful, easy-to find information. These are some of my favorites.

LinkedIn’s Pulse

Find it under the “Interests” tab on your LinkedIn toolbar. You can choose to follow influencers, major media outlets and topical content areas. It’s extremely easy to share the content to LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter right from Pulse.

Alltop.com

This is an online, virtual “magazine rack” of blogs. Use the search bar to identify topics that interest you and follow the blogs that produce the content to interest your audience.

SmartBrief.com

Offering many free subscriptions to online newsletters, Smartbrief editors read and cultivates what is published about topics of interest and sends newsletters with links to articles and brief summaries. They have newsletters covering health care, marketing, education, business, finance and more.

These are just three places to find useful content to share. Feel free to post your favorites in the comments!

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How to be a resource for people in your network

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OpeningDoorsAre you a valuable networker? How can you tell? Are you willing to help people without the promise of anything in return? Do you help colleagues and new contacts open doors? If so, you’re much more likely to succeed at networking than the person who spends all of his time hoping to get something in return for a favor. One of the unwritten “networking laws” is to give without expecting anything back. Don’t make it “all about you.”

Instead of trying to win something from the people you meet, think about how you can be a “connector,” someone who makes a habit of introducing other people to each other.

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How can you become a connector?

  • Think about other people first.
  • Get out of your comfort zone. You can do this even if you are introverted or shy.
  • Meet more people! You can’t introduce people if you don’t know anyone!
  • Join organizations. Don’t join “in name only.” Get out and attend meetings.
  • Be curious and ask questions.
  • Improve your listening skills.
  • Think ahead and be strategic with your networking.
  • Be willing to reconnect with people you haven’t seen in a long time.
  • Be a resource. How can you be helpful to the people you meet?
  • Follow up, or you’ll miss a lot of opportunities.

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Need help learning how to network?

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Professional networking is a crucial element of a successful job search, especially for tech-savvy Generation Y job seekers. However, many students and recent grads believe that they don’t yet have any valuable contacts to add to their network – one of the many myths we will dispel during this #MWchat. [Read more…] about Need help learning how to network?