How to Be Awesome at Your Job
372: How to Take the Work out of Networking with Karen Wickre
Karen Wickre shares ways both introverts and extroverts can grow their networks without that transactional feeling.
You’ll Learn:
1) A pro-tip for how to build up your network despite social anxiety
2) How to farm for contacts instead of hunting for them
3) The strength of weak ties
About Karen
Karen Wickre is the former Editorial Director at Twitter, where she landed after a decade-long career at Google. She is a member of the Board of Visitors for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, and serves on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, the News Literacy Project, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has been a featured columnist for Wired.com and is a cofounder of Newsgeist, an annual gathering conference fostering new approaches to news and information. She is the author of Taking the Work Out of Networking and lives in San Francisco.
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