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How To Work A Room® or Zoom: A New Look at Face-To-Face Networking In a Hybrid World

It’s been a helluva 18 months since the Corona Virus created the pandemonium of a pandemic! Returning to the “new ABnormal” (a phrase I’ve used for 18 months) has contributed to our anxiety and feeling we are “rusty” in social situations. Many of us are returning to workplaces, meetings, conferences and concerts. We adapted our […]

How To Work a Room® : The Return of the BUSINESS LUNCH???

I was interviewed by Washington Post reporter, Emily Heil, for her article on the iconic —and missed— business lunch. I wrote about the business lunch in both The Secrets of SAVVY Networking and Face TO Face: How To Reclaim The Personal Touch in a Digital World/ There were several additional points I mentioned in our […]

Not-So-SILENT APPROVAL

One of the lessons of my youth came from the history books as well as from some very fine teachers. Do not give silent approval to wrongdoing. “Silence, in the face of wrongdoing, gives the appearance of approval.” That was some big lesson for a little girl to explain why we must stand up and […]

Something Tough to Say? If Skittish, Try Yiddish

by Susan RoAne “Cyber dreck” … that’s what the Wall Street Journal said in 1992 was the composition of much that was on the WWW. I roared, knowing full well what the Wall Street Journal thought of much of the stuff floating on the internet. I was inspired and motivated to reclaim dreck in my […]