However, I disagree that you “lose” 93% of your communication in email and 45% on the phone – instead, the person on the other end is going to use different means to judge your communication. I'd be interested to learn how word choice, email signatures, etc., fall into perception of email communication.

This weekend I felt ready to launch my first Twitter experience – “How to Stay Home and Use Twitter Tools to Network a Major Conference”
I figured out how to network at the ASCD 09 conference remotely with Twitter tools and a live Word Cloud.
See how it’s working and how to: http://tinyurl.com/d9qgqg
I’ve made great contacts and expanded my personal network.

-Rachel-

This is an excellent post outlining your interview with Diane Darling. Great content overall re: Networking strategies to share with everyone. I was happy to have her for our Boston Salty Legs Career Club Guest Speakers event in January ’09. I do like her thoughts on “hybrid networking” along with advises on having a personal advisory board throughout your career. I hope and wish for all of our members at Boston Salty Legs Career Club to utilize our meetings to do just that – to approach all members as their own “personal advisory” board and share thoughts and resources. Great job on this post! I have tweeted and shared thumbs up on Facebook.

Love this quote from you ~ “Before Google, there was gossip. Now you have a role in creating your reputation.” You can really see who people are online, and how they behave as a person. I concur with this and we hope to continue and explore “branding” as a topic of conversation near future. Look forward to hearing from Dan Schawbel who will be speaking for our club in March on “personal branding”.

As for Diane: I understand from Diane directly that she is the recipient for CWE award this year and I root for her success as well. From what I hear, she definitely deserves this adulation at this time.

Thanks for this post Rachel.

Best!

Susan
Reference to: CWE & Boston Salty Legs Career Club

CWE: Center for Women & Enterprise
http://www.cweboston.org/

Boston Salty Legs Career Club
http://sites.google.com/site/saltylegscareerclub/Home

Dan Schawbel
http://personalbrandingblog.wordpress.com/danschawbel/

Susan’s last blog post..PinkOliveFamily: just spoke to someone from Right Mgmt – hmm. wonder if they are on twitter ;P

People’s expectations in terms of job opportunities are still high and their willingness to understand the unique skills they bring to the market is just as great. That’s why what Diane alludes to in her explanations of the “inner circle” and PBA is so key. This is, understanding how others see your strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities their feedback can help direct you to.

Now more than ever, getting *useful* feedback from your network of coworkers, friends, managers, and even clients, is super-important. What many have found though is that getting that type of valuable feedback via traditional means (i.e. face-to-face, email, manager reviews) can be a challenge for a number of social and cultural reasons. That’s why we created a service called Rypple. Out of total respect for the sanctity of your blog, I don’t want to turn it into a commercial for us, but if anyone is interesting in learning more, check out our site and feel free to ping me at any time.

Regardless of the mechanism you use, effectively leveraging your network and networking activities to get you meaningful feedback and insight is the name of the game!

Thanks for the post!

P.S. – if we only had to rely on feedback from the ‘FFF types’, my mother alone would have catapulted me into the White House long ago :)