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BSA203 Professional Networking Part1

1. Yes, networking is all about building a professional community.

2. It's constantly evolving.

3. It will change you, you will internalise other points of view and you will become more confident in writing and speaking because you will be in ongoing conversations with people you know.

4. You have to build one.

5. You should dedicate about a day a week.

6. Know your goals, Identify some relevant people, Court these people individually, Meet them face to face at a professional meeting, Exchange Drafts, Follow up.

7. It's essentially people helping you, and you helping people out of obligation.

8. You need to see who calls the shots and who is worth going to, and who isn't.

9. You need to put time in to build a good network, and you need to uphold it.

10. The temptation to react, to treat people like machines, to pretense, to paranoia, to get overwhelmed, to get addicted, to waste time and to blame email for your problems.

11. Know your goals, Identify some relevant people, court these people individually, meet the person face to face, exchange drafts and follow up.

12. It is a theme that emerges after lots of research.

13. Their own research is lead by the patterns they see, they care enough to think about other peoples' research, they communicate intensively and keep up to date with others, they are smart enough to notice patterns in the first place.

14. It is important to consult people before going ahead. After identifying something there has to be consultation before going ahead.

15. It's important because it helps you to be more malleable and therefore more employable if you are able to approach different practises with an open mind.

16. You can't build a relationship with people without putting in the time to get to know and understand them.

17. Using technology like email is good for maintaining a relationship, but not so good for building one.

18. It is good advice, because if you don't know who a social group works, you will find it much harder to integrate into it.

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