If you weren't born a natural networker - you are not alone! Skillful networking is something that you develop and practice-even if networking doesn't come naturally for you. In Win/Win Networking, you'll gain easy-to-implement tips, tools, and new ways to approach networking that are a win/win for you and the people you meet. With Win/Win Networking, you'll: -Receive interactive exercises, checklists, templates, and journal pages to discover where and how to network in ways that work specifically for you. -Access insights to become more effective, confident, and energized in making connections. -Gain powerful tools to strategize your next networking opportunities, both in-person and online.

Networking for Nerds provides a step-by-step guide to understanding how to access hidden professional opportunities through networking. With an emphasis on practical advice on how and why to network, you will learn how to formulate and execute a strategic networking plan that is dynamic, multidimensional, and leverages social media platforms and other networking channels. An invaluable resource for both established and early-career scientists and engineers (as well as networking neophytes!), Networking for Nerds offers concrete insight on crafting professional networks that are mutually beneficial and support the advancement of both your career goals and your scholarly ambitions. “Networking” does not mean going to one reception or speaking with a few people at one conference, and never contacting them again. Rather, “networking” involves a spectrum of activities that engages both parties, ensures everyone’s value is appropriately communicated, and allows for the exploration of a win-win collaboration of some kind. Written by award-winning entrepreneur and strategic career planning expert Alaina G. Levine, Networking for Nerds is an essential resource for anyone working in scientific and engineering fields looking to enhance their professional planning for a truly fulfilling, exciting, and stimulating career. professional planning for a truly fulfilling, exciting, and stimulating career.Networking for Nerds provides a step-by-step guide to understanding how to access hidden professionalopportunities through networking. With an emphasis on practical advice on how and why to network, youwill learn how to formulate and execute a strategic networking plan that is dynamic, multidimensional, andleverages social media platforms and other networking channels.An invaluable resource for both established and early-career scientists and engineers (as well as networkingneophytes!), Networking for Nerds offers concrete insight on crafting professional networks that aremutually beneficial and support the advancement of both your career goals and your scholarly ambitions.“Networking” does not mean going to one reception or speaking with a few people at one conference, andnever contacting them again. Rather, “networking” involves a spectrum of activities that engages bothparties, ensures everyone’s value is appropriately communicated, and allows for the exploration of a win-wincollaboration of some kind.Written by award-winning entrepreneur and strategic career planning expert Alaina G. Levine, Networking forNerds is an essential resource for anyone working in scientific and engineering fields looking to enhance theirprofessional planning for a truly fulfilling, exciting, and stimulating career.

Hip. Engaging. Powerful. Fun. Practical. Fresh. Sharp. "Let this lively guide inspire you to reach out to others." -Ken Blanchard (The One Minute Manager®) "This is a book everyone will wish they read 20 years ago." - Frank Bracken (President and COO, Haggar Clothing Co.) "This book is great. Read it!" - Bill Brooks (The New Science of Selling and Persuasion). Foreword by Jay Conrad Levinson - Father of Guerilla Marketing book series (15 million sold).

The goal is to create real connections that help both a person and a business to make meaningful contacts that are life changing and life giving.

Introduction to Show Networking covers the basics of how Ethernet networks provide a platform for entertainment control and audio/video media distribution for concerts, theatre productions, corporate and special events, cruise ship revues, wrestling shows, houses of worship, museum presentations, fountain spectaculars—any kind of show presented live for an audience. The book’s bottom-up approach was designed with show technicians in mind, starting with the basics and then moving up through cables, network switches, and layering, and on through Ethernet, and network components like TCP, UDP, IP and subnet masks, all with a practical focus. More advanced concepts are introduced, including broadcast storms and VLANs, along with show networking best practices. Closing out the book is a network design process demonstrated through practical, real-world examples for lighting, sound, video, scenic automation, and show control networks. An appendix covering binary and hexadecimal numbers is also included. This easy-reading book draws from Huntington’s Show Networks and Control Systems, the industry standard since 1994, but is completely re-focused, reorganized, and updated.

The Unicist Approach to Network Building has made a revolutionary step towards the comprehension of the human nature. Globalization has placed a cultural and universal communication umbrella on the world, thus generating an anomie among national cultures that are not ready to become part of it. Communities are one of the answers to globalization. If one seeks to bear influence, one needs to be part of a community. That is why the outcasts, who do not seek to exert or receive any influence whatsoever break up the communities they are immersed in. One of the greatest values added by the Unicist Theory of Evolution as a complex system approach is in the Social field. It is now possible to understand social phenomena in light of the concepts that underlie in its evolution. This approach supports the study of cultures and societies that permit to forecast what will happen over time. The Unicist Theory of Evolution defines how man can construct societies to live in, which his actual possibilities are, how to realize his "reachable" utopias and how to avoid the unreachable ones. Communities are a response to man's gregarious nature. Man is, was and has been gregarious inasmuch as there lies an inner quest to excel as a species. The reason why there are men who give up their gregarious attitude is that they feel remarkably superior or inferior to others. At both ends, man abandons his gregarious attitude. Whenever we refer to communities we are analyzing which concepts the development of a community is based on. That is why we began to conceptualize societies on the basis of their need to expand. Communities, as a type of institution, expand those societies within which they act. Communitiesexpand even when they are made up by outcasts. In this case, they expand outcasts into some place in society. Communities are ruled by macro and not by micro laws. That is to say that they operate as societies and not as groups. They are small nations within larger ones. Hence, one community may not go up against the values upheld by the nation within which it operates; on the contrary, it needs to enhance its national interests. Community building is the path for man to exert influence.

An internationally known public speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive shares practical, up-to-date tips for mastering the skills of networking. Networking doesn’t have to be that frenzied old-school game of calendars packed with stuffy power lunches and sterile evenings at community business gatherings. We’ve entered a new era, one in which shifting cultural values and the explosion of digital technology enable us to network in vastly more efficient, more focused, and more enjoyable ways. A fresh take on How to Win Friends and Influence People, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is an entertaining, straightforward guide filled with revealing case studies, hands-on advice, and innovative strategies for building your network. Written by sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive Porter Gale, with a foreword by Apple evangelist and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki, this book shows you how to establish, expand, and nurture your connections both online and off. New ways to network are popping up every day—and Gale tells you how to make the most of them—but even traditional networking opportunities are not the same animals that they once were, and we need to shift our attitudes and approaches accordingly. Networking has evolved from a transactional game to a transformational process. Whereas once it was about power plays, now it’s about charting your own course, following your passions, and making meaningful connections, which in turn increase your happiness and productivity. In addition to chronicling her own rise from an ad agency intern to an in-demand consultant, Gale also shares the inspiring stories of so many others who live by this networking model: a military wife who connects with social media communities while her husband is deployed overseas, a young woman blog-ger battling leukemia, a dyslexic politician who wins elections by telling stories, and the CEO of a Major League Baseball team who once made a phone call that changed the course of his life. When you focus on your passions and reorganize your networking around your values and beliefs, you will discover the kind of lasting relationships, personal transformation, and, ultimately, tangible wealth that are the foundation for happiness and success. With a message both timely and important, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is the definitive handbook to Networking 2.0.