“Almost Myspace”

Last night I went to the ‘Today’s Young Professionals’ – Leadership Incubator at Ebay in San Jose.  They had a great presentation about branding yourself – a very interactive session which reminded me that I can’t forget about my brand that I have been creating since child-hood, and most prominently in 1999 when I truly became The Network Girl (history).

Some how I lost track of my brand over the past 6-months, I am The Network Girl, I am an enabler and a connector – these of course are the skills that I have been using for my current contract but the course reminded you are not XYZ company – you are your brand.

I also walked away with the motivation to pursue what I have thought about and started to draft a few times – the start of a book, which will come from a Case Study about missing the Social Networking curve by inches since I had one of the first social Networks established in 2000.

The title “Almost Myspace”, it will cover social networking and personality marketing – tools that I have specialized and developed over  the years  which are timeless in their essence.

The title I have to thank Terry Blanchard for, he is the owner of the Wing Stop in San Jose – he was also at the TYP event and we have met at several other Chamber mixers.  They have the best hot wings in town for sure!  He has dubbed me his ‘wing-man’:

“I have to thank you for being my wing man last night (really no pun intended, I just really realized it might be perceived as a pun when I was typing it, someone stop me please). What do you call a woman who is your wing man? – wing buddy, wing gal, wing woman, wing chick”

I have a knack for networking and connecting people, by the end of the night I connected him to several wing lovers, and other marketing opportunities.  In return I know that I have some one who will be looking out for me and my Networks – its important to have wing men looking out for us.

As well I met Nima Adelkhani and I will dub him as a fellow Network Guy who has vision, is an innovator and also uses his super human networking abilities to help others – just because he like to.  Not only that, he has a great service – mobile advertising devices that attach to commuter vehicles (making it green, since the cars are already on the road)…Check it out AdHitch. I am sold and will certainly be reccomending this to colleagues who work for large chains or for individuals who need to get a mass message out quickly but affordably – great for legislative campaigning.