You might think networking is all about cocktail receptions with free drinks, free food, and friends. Maybe you're shy and dread every event you're required to attend. Perhaps there are just too many people, and you don't know where to start or how to narrow your focus. Remember: It's not Net-PLAY... It's not Net-EAT... It's not Net-DRINK... It's not Net-SIT... IT'S NET-WORK! In his concise but definitive guide, The Art of Networking: Beyond the Handshake, David Woods will tell you that if you're like most executives, you live inside a close bubble of friends and family. But to realize your career potential, you have to push yourself outside of that space and intentionally build new relationships. In his twenty-five-year career, David has been CEO of three companies. Networking was a key to achieving these roles, and it can be the key for you to achieve your goals too. Filled with quick, entertaining advice and simple, powerful, and memorable steps to build a network filled with rich relationships, David gives you just what you need to break through in today's business environment of sometimes shallow, superficial social media-based interactions and go Beyond the Handshake. For more information about David, visit www.giantpartners.biz or check out his Facebook page.

The Art of Network Architecture Business-Driven Design The business-centered, business-driven guide to architecting and evolving networks The Art of Network Architecture is the first book that places business needs and capabilities at the center of the process of architecting and evolving networks. Two leading enterprise network architects help you craft solutions that are fully aligned with business strategy, smoothly accommodate change, and maximize future flexibility. Russ White and Denise Donohue guide network designers in asking and answering the crucial questions that lead to elegant, high-value solutions. Carefully blending business and technical concerns, they show how to optimize all network interactions involving flow, time, and people. The authors review important links between business requirements and network design, helping you capture the information you need to design effectively. They introduce today’s most useful models and frameworks, fully addressing modularity, resilience, security, and management. Next, they drill down into network structure and topology, covering virtualization, overlays, modern routing choices, and highly complex network environments. In the final section, the authors integrate all these ideas to consider four realistic design challenges: user mobility, cloud services, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and today’s radically new data center environments. • Understand how your choices of technologies and design paradigms will impact your business • Customize designs to improve workflows, support BYOD, and ensure business continuity • Use modularity, simplicity, and network management to prepare for rapid change • Build resilience by addressing human factors and redundancy • Design for security, hardening networks without making them brittle • Minimize network management pain, and maximize gain • Compare topologies and their tradeoffs • Consider the implications of network virtualization, and walk through an MPLS-based L3VPN example • Choose routing protocols in the context of business and IT requirements • Maximize mobility via ILNP, LISP, Mobile IP, host routing, MANET, and/or DDNS • Learn about the challenges of removing and changing services hosted in cloud environments • Understand the opportunities and risks presented by SDNs • Effectively design data center control planes and topologies

Despite its popularity, traditional networking isn't working. This groundbreaking book flips the traditional idea of networking on its head and puts helpfulness at the center of this little-understood practice. Helpful revolutionizes what networking is, how it happens, and how we should do it. Whether you're a natural at networking or dread it like tax day, Helpful will forever change the way you practice networking and build relationships, professional and otherwise.

The Art of Networking: Leveraging Traditional and Social Media Networking Strategies to Get Hired. Learn the #1 proven strategy to get a job: Networking. Career coaching experts agree that Networking is one of the most effective job hunting tactics. However, very few job seekers know how to effectively use this job search tool. Learn strategies to overcome your fear of rejection and social anxiety that may stop you from maximizing your networking opportunities. Also, you'll learn how to create a list of networking contacts, what to say when you meet with your networking contacts, and how to follow up and manage your networking partners: all tactics essential to getting you hired now! What will you learn? „Ï Techniques to overcome your fear of rejection and social anxiety „Ï Rules and goals of networking „Ï Strategies to generate networking contacts „Ï Specific dialogue for interacting with networking contacts „Ï Strategies to follow up with networking contacts „Ï Strategies to set up and leverage LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter And much, much more¡K. As an added bonus, get your free copy of the cutting edge report "Get Hired Now!" from www.Facebook.com/YusufWilson. It will energize your job search and help you get hired now!

With more than 14,000 entries in her electronic address book, Carole Stone is a self-confessed people addict who has turned networking and making friends into an art form. Packed with top tips and real-life scenarios, this is your essential guide to getting on with people in all aspects of life. You might be working your way up the career ladder, or have already reached the top; perhaps you're at home looking after the children or you want to liven up your social life. Whatever your situation, this funny, frank and practical guide will help you mix, match and multiply your friends and contacts. You'll soon discover many new ways to expand your network, from approaching the art of small talk to throwing the perfect party. Carole's no-nonsense approach will inspire you to seize the moment, and the right opportunities, so that you not only make more friends, but also make the most of them. For ten years Carole Stone was the producer of the BBC's radio flagship programme Any Questions? Carole is now a television and radio broadcaster, writes for national newspapers and magazines and runs her own media consultancy business.

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.

Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that patronage was much more than a pursuit of specific rewards. It was also a pursuit of relationships and of a self defined in relation to others. To become independent in Renaissance Florence, one first had to become connected. With The Art of the Network, McLean fills a gap in sociological scholarship by tracing the historical antecedents of networking and examining the concept of self that accompanies it. His analysis of patronage opens into a critique of contemporary theories about social networks and social capital, and an exploration of the sociological meaning of “culture.” McLean scrutinized thousands of letters to and from Renaissance Florentines. He describes the social protocols the letters reveal, paying particular attention to the means by which Florentines crafted credible presentations of themselves. The letters, McLean contends, testify to the development not only of new forms of self-presentation but also of a new kind of self to be presented: an emergent, “modern” conception of self as an autonomous agent. They also bring to the fore the importance that their writers attached to concepts of honor, and the ways that they perceived themselves in relation to the Florentine state.

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Bestselling author Harvey Mackay reveals his techniques for the most essential tool in business--networking, the indispensable art of building contacts. Now in paperback, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last word on how to get what you want from the world through networking. For everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away. This shrewdly practical book distills Mackay's wisdom gleaned from years of "swimming with sharks," including: What kinds of networks exist How to start a network, and how to wring the most from it The smart way to downsize your list--who to keep, who to dump How to keep track of favors done and favors owed--Is it my lunch or yours? What you can do if you are not good at small talk Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is a must for anyone who wants to get ahead by reaching out.

“For introverts who panic at the idea of networking, Wickre’s book is a deep, calming breath.” —Sophia Dembling, author of The Introvert’s Way Former Google executive, editorial director of Twitter, self-described introvert, and “the best-connected Silicon Valley figure you’ve never heard of” (Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal), offers networking advice for anyone who has ever canceled a coffee date due to social anxiety. Learn to nurture a vibrant circle of reliable contacts without leaving your comfort zone. Networking has garnered a reputation as a sort of necessary evil. Some people relish the opportunity to boldly work the room, introduce themselves to strangers, and find common career ground—but for many others, the experience is awkward, or even terrifying. The common networking advice for introverts are variations on the theme of overcoming or “fixing” their quiet tendencies. But Karen Wickre is a self-described introvert who has worked in Silicon Valley for thirty years. She shows you how to embrace your quiet nature and “make genuine connections that last, that we can nurture across the world for all kinds of purposes” (Chris Anderson, head of TED). Karen’s “embrace your quiet side” approach is for anyone who finds themselves shying away from traditional networking activities, or for those who would rather be curled up with a good book on a Friday night than out at a party. With compelling arguments and creative strategies, this “practical, easy-to-use” (Sree Sreenivasan, former chief digital officer of Columbia University) book is a perfect guide.