| Networking offers so many options that it's hard to | | | | websites is delicious, more commonly seen by its |
| know where to focus. You have attended | | | | web address del.icio.us. |
| workshops, seminars and conferences to chit-chat | | | | What is del.icio.us?del.icio.us is a collection of favorites |
| and hand out business cards. You have joined | | | | - yours and everyone else's. You can use to keep, |
| traditional networking business groups to attract new | | | | share and discover links to your favorite articles, |
| business and develop long-term relationships around | | | | blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more. |
| breakfast, lunch and/or dinner meetings. You used | | | | These favorites are usually public, and can be saved |
| social networking sites to connect with various | | | | privately, shared only with specified people or groups, |
| groups you lost touch with from college to former | | | | shared only inside certain networks, or another |
| colleagues. | | | | combination of public and private domains.del.icio.us |
| Now that you have mastered these options you | | | | lets users see others' link collections. If a user finds |
| must find new ways to promote your business | | | | someone's list compelling, she can subscribe to it then |
| interests and get noticed. Why not use "social | | | | be notified when more bookmarks are added to it. |
| bookmarking" for networking your business? | | | | This process combines technology, networking, |
| Before you can understand how to use it for | | | | relationship building, grass-roots marketing, and follow |
| networking you must understand what it is and how | | | | up. |
| it works. | | | | What can it be used for? |
| What it is? | | | | Here are examples of networking you can do with |
| Favorites or "links" you want to remember and/or | | | | saving bookmarks on del.icio.us: |
| share organized and stored (bookmarked) on a | | | | - Businesses - create a tag for your business, |
| website. | | | | partners and affiliates. |
| How it works? | | | | - Products and Services - find existing tags with |
| Keywords (called a tag) chosen by you describing the | | | | non-competing and competing products and services |
| favorite or "link". | | | | then add yours. |
| So instead of saving your bookmarks on your PC in | | | | - Collaboration - use a shared account, special tag, or |
| folders you can save them online. As an added | | | | networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are |
| benefit, using this technology allows you to access | | | | relevant -- and useful -- to the entire group. |
| the favorites from any computer and add | | | | Make the "net" Work, be creative, you must take |
| bookmarks from anywhere. | | | | action to get noticed. |
| One of the most popular social bookmarking | | | | |