Technologies to Help Increase Your Network

If you want to thrive in business, you need to network. And you need to continue to develop your network through the use of any and all means available. You also must use any and all means available to make it easy for people to connect with you. Especially on the world wide web. And so I'm wanting to let you know about a couple of technologies (if you haven't heard of these yet) that can help you to increase your network and offer ease of communication between you and your website/blog visitors. The technologies are Twitter and Cbox. They are both free. Let's talk about Twitter, first. Twitter is a sort of micro-blogging website (according to nytimes.com). Twitter offers you the ability to post short statements (only 140 characters allowed) and then others can sign up to follow along with what's on your mind and what you're up to. This might not sound like much when it comes to furthering your network, so I've included two posts for you to read that explain it really well: (1) How Twitter can help at work (nytimes.com) and (2) I learned everything I need to know about Social Media on Twitter (thank you, Joel McDonald - automatedhomefinder.com). I can't stress enough how the implementation of the advice given in these two posts alone can help transform your networking online and the expansion and potential expansion of your business. Did you see what I just said? (This is an edit one day later: The Real Estate Tweet Plan That Won't Cramp Your Style - this article offers you one person's idea on how you might schedule your use of Twitter effectively - thank you, Nicole Nicolay, of Effektive Solutions.) And then there's Cbox. Cbox stands for chat box (of course). The cool thing about Cbox is you can embed this widget on to your website or blog and then those who visit your site can automatically speak with you right then and there. (Check out the Cbox on this blog just to the right in the sidebar. Try it out. Send me a message!) That's it for today. Let me know if you put any of these technologies to use. CLICK HERE for Twitter. CLICK HERE for Cbox.