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This article was written for a city networking newsletter.
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Strategic Networking — planning networking activities to achieve a particular goal. Joe Cole, director of sales and marketing at Sequent, believes that to get the most out of networking it’s best to begin with the question, What’s the desired outcome?
The kind of networking you do varies with what you want to accomplish, Cole points out. “Are you looking for career growth? New business? If so, what kind of business? Networking in a job search is different from what you’ll do once you’ve found the position or what you’ll do when you’re growing your business. Based on your desired outcome, you can determine if networking is appropriate and how that networking will look. It’s a matter of looking at the bigger picture, creating a strategy, and then thinking about the tactical steps that will lead you to a successful conclusion.”
Cole also urges periodic reevaluation of networking activities. Time and energy are two resources that everyone has in limited supply. For the benefit of ourselves and our organizations, we need to get the biggest possible return on that time and energy. It’s a matter of investment. Periodically, we need to step back and question whether or not time and energy is being invested wisely for oneself and the company.
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This client needed guidebook style articles for a book about ancient sites in the United States
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Russell Cave is the site of the longest continuous use by man on the North American continent. It holds remains of the oldest campfires in the Southeast. Layers of earth reveal a detailed history reaching back through the Mississippian, the Eastern Woodland and the Archaic Periods and even into the Paleo-Indian Period.
The record shows the advent of such technological innovations as the development of pottery and the use of the atlatl, a throwing stick which gave a spear more power and distance. Cultural advances appeared with bear’s teeth necklaces, most likely worn as a sign of prestige by those who had killed a bear. The necklaces were followed by the wearing of gorgets, ornamental necklaces made first of stone and later of shell or clay carved with symbolic and religious motifs.
Burial customs advanced from the practice of throwing a body over a cliff or into a corner to fairly elaborate burials. Men learned to polish stone, make vessels of hide and lamps of hollowed bones stuffed with bear fat.
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This client needed an article for a news magazine
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Mike McKibben, chairman and CEO of Leader Technologies, says networking is a great way to finance a company. He should know. He’s raised over 12 million dollars to finance his company by networking with investment angels — and he feels that’s why it’s still alive.
Leader Technologies builds collaborations software that uses voice and data for people to communicate, collaborate, share files, voice mails and emails using the internet rather than having to install a lot of software and staff a big support group. The core technology is the commercial component, LeaderPhone, which allows for web-based teleconferencing, LeaderAlert, which enables Homeland Security alerts, and Leader2Leader, which allows for easy remote file sharing.
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This client needed an article for a news supplement
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Billions of dollars are at stake in the ongoing dispute between XYZ Energy, Inc.and ABC, Inc., its subsidiaries, sister companies, and parent company, ABC Parent. Last week, two XYZ companies, XYZ Gas and XYZ Services, joined four other small gas marketing companies in a class action suit claiming continuing antitrust violations beginning in 1996.
The suit contends that the ABC pipeline implemented an illegal “park and lend” scheme to provide preferential storage and transportation services to its unregulated marketing affiliate, ABC Energy Services (ABCES). Plaintiffs claim that ABCES then offered the same services to “select” shippers and received illegal payments in return. The suit contends that the ABC Parent companies allowed select shippers to illegally store gas through imbalances on their systems while denying legal requests for storage from others. Plaintiffs further claim that the select shippers were allowed to borrow gas during peak demand and high price periods and pay it back during low demand and low price periods. Further, the suit contends that the pipelines reported false data regarding available storage and transportation capacity.
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This client needed interactive biographies for a Website designed for middle school social studies students.
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In the early days, when Texas was part of Mexico and Mexico was ruled by Spain, Don Martin de Leon was known to nearly everyone who traveled through Texas. He was the first cattle baron in Texas and his cattle brand was recognized far and wide. He was an empresario, a land agent or contractor, one of the most important in early Texas. As such, he founded the city of Victoria. Because he understood the importance of communication, he established a courier service to carry mail and other information between his new colony and Austin.
Don Martin and his wife, Doña Patricia were both descendents of wealthy and influencial families who had moved from Spain to Mexico. The titles, Don and Doña have meanings similar to Sir and Madam. At that time they were used only for people of noble or royal families, but in time they came to be used much like Mr. and Mrs. and were given to nearly everyone. Don Martin was born in Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico in 1765. He made his first trip into Texas in 1805 and fell in love with this new country.
He moved his family there and began building herds of horses and cattle. He did this by capturing and domesticating, or taming, wild horses and cattle. By 1810, he owned five or six thousand cattle. Every year he drove them to markets, both in Mexico and New Orleans. He began dreaming about founding a colony.
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This client needed medical research digested into short items for newsletters to help busy professionals stay current with developments in their field.
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1. A 46-year-old man developed limited mouth opening (31 mm) and pain in the preauricular region of the right TMJ. Computed tomography disclosed a 10-mm osteolytic mass surrounded by sclerotic bone. When a sequestrectomy was performed, a reddish-purple area was found on the lateral surface of the articular tubercle. Microscopic examination revealed necrotic bone with loss of viable osteocytes with few inflammatory cells.
Approximately three years before the onset of pain, the patient had received intra-articular injections of sodium hyaluronate in the right TMJ weekly for five weeks. The authors believe that necrosis was caused by the irritation from the needle tip during the intra-articular injections.
2. The origin of carotidynia is not well understood. While many studies have found a psychosomatic component, its main cause appears to be viral. Except in rare cases, diagnosis can be based on clinical findings. Carotidynia is usually considered benign, but some studies have found a high occurrence in patients with arteriosclerosis, aneurysm or arterial dysphasia.
The authors observed the clinical aspects of carotidynia in 112 patients over the course of ten years. Patients most commonly complained of sore throat, followed by otalgia, neck pain and/or headache.
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