Networking in Surrey News - 31 October 2012

Wooo-ooo - it ‘s Halloween, and the 'trick or treat-ers' are out in force... spooky! I wear a devil mask to answer the doorbell, just to enter into the spirit of things - and because I'm a big kid at heart.

I'm like a kid in a sweet shop at the moment, because I'm just in the process of launching my new networking group – the MyTeam Network. We'll be meeting over lunch (civilised!) in a similar way to my recent Working Lunch events – and the idea is to network as a team (the clue’s in the name, really :0)

MTN is not intended to replace your current networking activities, but to enhance them. It’s all about extending networking into the space between meetings, in an informal but structured way, working together to achieve leveraged results for each other's businesses.

There's a lot more to MTN too... come along to a meeting in the pre-Launch phase to learn more, or apply to join the MyTeam Network Group here on Linked In.

Seems like everybody's upgrading their software offering at the moment, from Google Mail to Linked In's new-look profiles. It's a challenge to keep upsometimes! Things are happening on NiS too, and you Event organisers will be pleased to know you can now enter repeating events using the ‘Copy Event’ option to short-circuit the laborious ‘cut and paste’ process. We’ve decided to limit forward posting to two months ahead, as event details often change and we want to maintain our position as the most accurate networking events listing site,bar none - yay!

STOP PRESS! It looks like I'll have a single last-minute advertising opportunity again this month so please call me on 01932 845814 or email keith@networkinginsurrey.co.uk if you're interested – first come, first served as ever, and last month's sold 4 times over! Full price is £60, but you're welcome to make me an offer I can't refuse :0)

Diary of a Networker...

Despite being busy launching a networking group and landing a couple of large copywriting projects, I still found time to get out and about in Networkland during the six weeks or so since my last NiS Newsmail. I'll just pick some highlights at random, and name a few of the dozens of NIS Members I've met on my travels, so if you don't get a mention, please don't take it personally! (And by the way, anybody who hasn't got a photo on their profile never gets mentioned in dispatches or featured on the site - find out why here...)

• I played golf (terribly) at Fox Hills with Dan Smale - superb food afterwards though!
• went to a couple of Berkshire Digital and Digital Surrey events where I met up with Gill Perkins, Len Goss, Elaine Hickmott, Steve Coburn, Evonne Brown...
• attended the FSB Inter-Networking Jamboree to see Nigel Botterillstrutting his stuff along with Malcolm Tullett, Mike Loughton and Vanessa Lanham Day
• met some Fabulous Women at Paullette Schwartz’s Big Business Breakthrough event (Julia Britten, Jill Bennett, Katrina Warne, Prabha Shiyani - the list is endless)
• dropped in at the Start-up Britain Richmond Launch to meet Uzma Zaidi 
• delivered a seminar at Paul Bridgland's Woking Means Business Expo with several NiS Members in the audience - and met up with Sarah Giles, Sally Castro, and a host of others in the main halls
• networked in an art gallery at Walton Biscotti with Line Joergensen and Sonia Duggan
• had a hugely enjoyable time at Darren Allen's How Can We Help You Open-day  gourmet extravaganza with Peter Dixon, Nicola Regan, Victoria Bennett and many more of the 'Usual Suspects'...
• followed that same evening by the first meeting of the Kingston Businesses Linked In group with Kapil Kapur, Ian Hamilton, and Rishma Hasham
  
• and yesterday I was at Weybridge Ecademy at Brooklands for an insightful, info-packed presentation by SEO super-guru Mick Say along with David Simpson, Maurice Watts, David Shaw...

In case you're wondering, I've also found time to have a life (but not as we know it, Jim :0) and even managed to catch the new Bond film. OK, it's tosh, but it's 24-carat tosh (Nerdy question: would an ejector seat button work in a hardtop Aston Martin without a sunroof?)

PS The impending Networking in Surrey Networker plus! (NiS+) price rise will happen just as soon as I find a minute to change the PayPal setup - so it's your last chance to grab it here (and there's a big surprise bonus too - can't say any more now, except that it's an unbeatable BOGOF deal...)