Business Networking doesn’t begin when you arrive at the conference

Before leaving for an event, networking lunch or conference (see our pubcon seo conference post) have your goals outlined and script prepared. Know who you should contact and be ready to help them. Also, If you are at an event and are not professional there is a possibility that your bad antics will be video recorded and shared online. Always assume that video cameras are running at any event and don’t do anything you wouldn’t want taped.

Listen More
At the conference lunch, or event meal, don’t describe what you do, how well you do it, how many awards you’ve received for doing it, and how you can do it for me if I’d sign a contract. Ask questions and be thoughtful of people’s responses. It’s the ultimate way to learn, and allows you the opportunity to actually contribute something of value to the conversation. Value gets remembered, verbal diarrhea simply gets recalled (not in a good way).

Approach Speakers Before Their Presentation
Instead of being one of the hundred people going up to the speaker at the end of the speech, talk to them beforehand. Find the speaker before they go on stage, introduce yourself and write on your business card that you were the one who introduced yourself before the talk. You will be remembered.

Do Something Original
Try to hand them something besides a boring piece of cardboard for your business card to optimize your memorability. If you’re creative enough to give something they will remember, chances are that person will want to do some business with you.

Don’t Immediately Friend Them
After meeting someone, if you immediately add them to your Facebook page they may feel like you are stalking them. People under 24 may have no problem with this, but most others will. It is ok to follow their Twitter stream, but be wary of more personal social networking tools, including LinkedIn. Establish some meaningful communication before trying to become digital pals.

Manage Your Personal Brand
If your personal or professional brand isn’t portrayed online the way you would like it to be, it’s not the social network’s fault. It’s not Facebook’s fault, it’s not LinkedIn’s fault, it’s not YouTube’s fault, it’s not Twitter’s fault — It’s probably your fault. Make sure to keep online appearances as you want them to be and maintain professional updates with social network websites.

Read Peter Shankman discuss his 5 ways of making networking work for you.

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Facebook is growing faster.

Back in the late 1990′s Amazon foresaw the growth of social networks and made a large investment in the purchase of PlanetAll.com in 1998. Amazon was correct in realizing “the only address book you’ll ever need” would be a website, however they were about 8 years too early.

Read more about Facebook becoming the #2 most visited website on the internet at Network World and Compete.com.

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The G social network of the future is codenamed Maka Maka and it will integrate every bit of your known data into one complete system. Your personal search history, gmail.com contacts, google reader feeds, iGoogle widgets & data, Gtalk buddy list, events in your Gcalendar will all suddenly be part of the social web.

Yipee! We now get  to let Google monetize our personal information, and we unknowingly agreed to it when we signed up for all these time saving Google services, clicking i agree to the end user license agreement.

Google wants to place ads on your homepage, start page, networking page, personal events, heck if google could produce an alarm clock that displayed adwords they would send them to every household in the world.

More from the Google social announcement:

Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google’s personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time.

On November 5 we’ll likely see third party iGoogle gadgets that leverage Orkut’s social graph information – the most basic implementation of what Google is planning. . . . Google is also considering allowing third parties to join the party at the other end of the platform – meaning other social networks (think Bebo, Friendster, Twitter, Digg and thousands of others) to give access to their user data to developers through those same APIs.

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