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networking’

October 2, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Why Just Growing Your Network Is Horse$h!t

image via briansolis I’m in a GE management training program full of over achievers. These individuals are smart and know how to play the corp ladder climbing game very well. One thing I here all the time is, “I need to build my network”. I’ve always questioned this sentiment because I question the value of [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution People & Leadership

May 29, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Help Early, Help Often: Be The Middle Man In Networking & Win

In my post, how to get a job in a crap economy, we talked about building your network before you need them. I want to stress this point again and provide an example that you can use today in order to do this effectively. Building my network and learning from the people around me is [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution People & Leadership

February 19, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Network Solution for Ecommerce case study

This is our network solution for our Ecommerce case study. I’m not sure how many of the readers of this blog are technical but  I’m definitely open to thoughts, tweaks, or suggestions? I’ll also have to impliment a similar solution for my next role so it will be helpful to learn from this example. Cheers!

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Posted Under Technology

February 6, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Presentation at Alverno College 1/31/09

Last week I had the great opportunity to speak at Alverno College on the power of embracing the web to professionally network. It’s something that I love doing and something that I’ve really focused on as you know. Using social networks, especially twitter and my blog to meet people in person has been a blast [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship Projects

January 9, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

I’m speaking at Alverno College – Jan 30th

I’ll be speaking at Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI on January 30th. Alverno College is an all women’s liberal arts college in Milwaukee and my talk will be on using the web to network. If interested in more information please contact: Megan Olson – Alverno SIFE President meg.a.olson@gmail.com

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