This morning (very early this morning!) I left for a networking meeting as a substitute for a regular member. I’ll do these occasionally in addition to the group that I am a member of.
So, after a nice breakfast, many cups of coffee and an hour or two of networking, I leave with a stack of new business cards and connections.
Here’s the tip – My next step was to log in to LinkedIn and add these new contacts as connections. That’s what LinkedIn is about, right? Business Networking, right? So, why do so many people skip this important step?
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Check out this story from Baristanet.com. This is just a snippet that I edited; you’ll have to click on to read the rest of the story:
Last Friday night… an alert came over from Breaking News Network, which caught my attention:
*Smoke Condition*| Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), 10 Toler Pl| smoke condition in the control tower has all air traffic shutdown for the airports…
…we turned on the car radio to see if the local news had anything, but heard nothing…
I didn’t think any more about the incident until yesterday, when I read a blog post by Tom Evslin, chief technology officer for the state of Vermont, who happened to be sitting on a plane waiting to take off…Evslin, being a captive to the situation, tried harder than I did to find out what was going on. Using twitter he… (click here to read the rest: http://www.baristanet.com/2011/03/twitter-and-ewr/
Here’s what I mean: when I first started consulting I had two computers – I had a desktop to do the majority of my computing work and I a (less powerful) laptop for my presentations and for when I wanted or needed to work remotely.
When Apple came out with the iPad and now the iPad2 and then a hundred or so plus compatibles, it may have killed the need for the desktop computer. Today’s laptops are just as powerful as the older desktop and have as much power as most people need. If you need extra storage space, hard drives are cheap- you can buy a terabyte hard drive for under $70 and you no longer need to buy an expensive docking station to attach a monitor and a keyboard -you simply plug them into a USB port.
So your laptop is now becomes your desktop and if you want something smaller and lighter and more portable to do to do presentations, you grab an iPad or Xoom or a Blackberry Playbook- that’s going to be the new laptop. You don’t need a desktop unless you’re doing hard-core video editing or something similar. Today’s laptops are just as powerful as 95% of the desktops out there and I think proper desktops, for the most part, will disappear within three years.
PS: I wrote this first on my iPhone using dictation software then did some minor editing on the iPad. No desktop or laptop at all!
Oy – well, I promised it, so here it is. Try not to laugh too much.
So, the latest (not counting “XXX”) domain is “.co” (read ‘dot co’). If you already have a dot.com or .net, it could be worth adding your .co to your group.
And, here’s an extra little tip. As you know (because you’re reading this) our domain is ‘cellconconsulting.com’ – which can be a bit long and sometimes when I give out my email people don’t get it right the first time – so, we’ve taken the ‘shortcut’ route and registered www.cellcon.co – which I forwarded to here. It’s easier to remember and I even added a ‘new’ email address with the shorter domain to forward to my main address. Easy-peasy! Normally, the dot-co will be $34.99 but I’ve put it on sale for $29.99 (a YEAR, not a month!!)
Want to get your own ‘dot-co’? Go visit www.cellconweb.com now and get it before someone else does!
We’ve just released episode 86.5 of our podcast, the BizTech Podcast. It’s not a full episode, just an announcement of what’ going to be coming very soon in episode 87. You can read more about it (and all prior 85.5 episodes) at our sister site: www.biztechpodcast.com
