Connect Your Communications & Your Network

So, what if you are sold on the idea that maintaining your professional network is valuable, but the last thing you need is more emails or more e-connection tasks?  Well, the increasing field of people who are part of the social networking boom in the technology sector are coming to the rescue.  Professional networking tools like LinkedIn now communicate with email management tools like Xobni to allow you to prioritize your mail and facilitate engagement of your network.  

More importantly, these tools help you to learn about yourself and your partners.  With whom do you have the most communication which might be more efficient over the phone?  To whose emails do you most quickly respond?  Who do you know in common with some of your other colleagues?  Who are the colleagues who can most quickly help you to recruit an employee, sell your services or partner on an upcoming project?    The answers to all of these questions can be much more easily discerned with tools like these.

Dovetailing your network with your communication processes adds plenty of power and allows you to guide them to work for YOU.