Dr. Sally Social Networking & Internet Mktg  

I am teaching a lot of clients and students how to foster closer relationships with their network. How do you keep up with so many people? Finding discussions that you can have with your contacts, and things in common make it easier to develop those relationships to a new level.

One of the ways is to invite them to other places that you like to network. I invite people every week to connect with on multiple networks like Ecademy, Linked In, Facebook, Perfect Networker, Twitter, Plurk and more. 

I have found that when I invite people another network to Linked In, that there are some that don't realize how important certain actions are. For example, if you do not want to connect with someone on Linked In, please consider simply choosing Archive to remove the invitation from your Inbox.

If you select "I Don't Know" it is a very negative action as far as Linked In is concerned. Linked In restricts the account of the person that gets "IDK's", and the actions cannot be rectified. Linked In doesn't care if it was a mistake, or if you changed your mind, or if you apologized later. When I get an invitation from someone, or a question, I do a search to see if we are connected any where else.

Most people do not want to harm the person that sent them an invitation, so it is a good thing to know!

Happy Days in 2009,

Sally

Social Networking & Media Coach
www.drsallywitt.com