Not the first Belgian in space, But maybe on Amazon's Top 10?

Jan Vermeiren is one of Belgium's gurus with regards to networking. His Dutch bestseller is now also available in English on Amazon, as from Tuesday 9 October.

Although most of his book is focussed on offline networking, he also tackles the online part. Some of the questions you will find an answer to are:

• What do online networks have to offer?


• How can Google help me in my networking efforts?


• What are blogs and what do they have to do with networking?


• Which follow-up actions can I do?


• What is the difference between an introduction and a referral?


• How do I introduce two people via e-mail?


• When do I write an introduction and when a referral e-mail?


• What do I do when somebody I don’t know very well asks for an introduction?


• How do I ask for a referral or introduction?


• When to use which communication medium?


• How do I deal with people that react strangely when I bring the networking tips from this book in practice?

If you are interested in buying the book (and helping the author get into the top ten), it is important to buy it on Tuesday 9 October, because this will get you free bonusses from 30 organisations. Don't say I didn't warn you ;-)

Corporate Social Networking Conference

Social Networking for Companies is finally picking up speed in Europe as well. Amsterdam will be the venue for the first Dutch conference on social networks for businesses in November this year. The conference will be especially useful to marketeers and recruiters, as they will enjoy special workshops. I will be one of the speakers as social networking and recruitment are two of my pet subjects.

More information can be found on the site of the organisation: http://www.krem.nl/csnconference/Programma.asp