Why We’re Bad At Networking #2: The Basics and Incoherence

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Last week thanks to a Twitter conversation, I decided to wade into a subject near and dear to my heart; why a lot of us aren’t that great at Networking.

This is not to saw I’m awesome, of course. I think I’m pretty good at it, though my goodness level is a bit erratic as it were; I think I could improve in several areas. But I do feel I do it well enough to be able to analyze it and give advice – if only because everyone else is bloody well asking me questions about it.

Last week I noted we got tired of being told to network and told how to network, drowned in hearing about it constantly, lost in details or generalities, lost in BS. We were overwhelmed with being told about it, and we tune it out – rather understandably.

Networking got buzzworded badly.

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$68 Bucks Makes A Man Who Never Existed Internet Famous

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Kevin Ashton worked some internet Necromancy to create Santiago Swallow.  Generated names, photoshopped face, Twitter followers, etc.  All for no one.

So a few questions for you:

  • How many other people have done this – and how many did it for themselves versus fake people?
  • How much can we actually trust a lot of what covers “fame” on the Internet?
  • How do we cut through the B.S. for ourselves?

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers athttp://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Site Update!

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So what have I been up to?

Well, you saw about the speaking – I’m back on speaking outside of the convention circuit.  I’ll also be fleshing out some new “multi-use” presentations for people.  So if you need a speaker, let me know!

The new resume book is still in the works as I got some helpful – and accidental – feedback that was really insightful. So I want to take time to incorporate the feedback and do some more tests.  So it probably won’t be out for about two more weeks.  After that another project begins – and yes, I need to get plans for the next Focused Fandom book.

Fan To Pro’s upcoming improvements are almost designed.  You should see some new stuff in May or at the latest very early June.

Seventh Sanctum appears to be stable and people are digging the new comments (which is really just Disqus, so props to them).  The redesign is scheduled to start sometime this summer, probably in Bootstrap, which looks to be fun to develop in.  I will probably multistage the development to add feature after feature as I see what is needed and what can be done.  My big focus is to make it more utility-like and functional across devices.

As noted I hope to do some podcasts and vlogs again, but with busy times I’m holding back for awhile to get other things out of the way.

And that’s where I am!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers athttp://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.