Networking is about getting yourself and your work noticed (preferably in a good way), but with over 43 million blogs on LiveJournal alone, it's easier said than done.

With that in mind, I thought it might be fun to host a network week, here on An Englishman in New Jersey, where people can promote themselves, and hopefully make some new friends and/ ( Read more... )

Mix and Mingle Week continues apace.

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Back in May, I thought it might be fun to host some kind of networking tea and crumpets/soda and chips event here on An Englishman in New Jersey, where people could meet other folks with the same kind of writing interests.

I called it ‘ Mix and Mingle week’.

It was a lot of fun, so I thought I'd do another one.

Here’s how it works:
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I’m very lucky to have lots of talented, wisdomous, writerly friends. Many of these good people share common interests, but don’t know each other...yet. Not all of them are on Live Journal. Some have accounts (or in the case of LJ users, additional accounts) on Twitter, Facebook, Blogspot etc.

With that in mind, I thought it might be fun to host ( Read more... )

In a world where so much written communication goes through some form of electronic device, it’s tempting to cut and paste our bio, or add some kind of advertisement about our blog, website or latest novel, to just about every email or message we send.

The thing is, if we’re not careful, the ‘message’ the other person receives might be quite ( Read more... )