Get Yourself Connected…

Thanks to Michelle Kaye at Bat­telle and Bat­telle, who brought me in today to speak about net­work­ing, social media, blogs, net­work­ing, and the emerg­ing web to a num­ber of her fel­low employ­ees as well as some of the employ­ees of McGo­han Braben­der.  Orig­i­nally the event was going to be held at Bat­telle and Bat­telle, but because of the large num­ber of peo­ple who signed up, it was moved down the street to McGo­han Braben­der.   I was thrilled that so many would show up to hear me speak.

My pre­sen­ta­tion revolved around the con­cept of using the web to con­nect with oth­ers and to cre­ate and develop, as Tom Peters would call it, Brand You.  In addi­tion to dis­cussing some gen­eral con­cepts, I spoke specif­i­cally about tools like Twit­ter, Squidoo, Word­Press, and LinkedIn — dis­cussing how these tools could be used in con­junc­tion with tra­di­tional items like hand writ­ten thank you notes and face to face meet­ings to con­nect with the world.   We live in a truly amaz­ing time.  Never before have indi­vid­u­als been so empow­ered to learn, share, and grow both per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally.  I appre­ci­ate being given the oppor­tu­nity to share the lit­tle that I know with oth­ers.  It was my plea­sure, and I hope that those who took the time to lis­ten to me enjoyed my pre­sen­ta­tion.   Thanks for your hospitality.

McGo­han Braben­der — Wel­come To McGo­han Brabender