Are You Prepared to Network?

I met a remarkable person today.  We were introduced by a mutual friend who said that we would really connect with one another; he was right.  Our early morning breakfast meeting scheduled for one hour turned into a two-hour-this-is-not-going-to-be-enough-time-to-talk-about-all-we-have-to-talk-about sort of discussion.  The time seriously flew by.  We covered many, many topics, but the one […]

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Take a Picture

A few weeks ago, my family and I went to New Jersey to visit my dad’s first cousin.  It was a bit sentimental for all of us – for one thing, my brother, Shawn, brought his two kids, Maya and Noah, and we all spent an afternoon on the beach in Atlantic City.  It was […]

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One-to-Many

With appreciation to Leah Swartz, Journalism student at the University of Kansas, who asked how I would suggest connecting with a large group of people when time or distance or other obstacles rule out truly getting to know them on an individualized, face-to-face, one-on-one basis, I’ve been pondering the notion of what I will call […]

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