The BusyEvent Blog

A former teacher used to tell me, “Shy is a lie that people tell themselves so that they don’t have to do what they know they want to”.

As a generally introverted person who needs a bit of time to ‘warm up’, I used to hate being thrust into an unfamiliar social or professional situation.  Hated it with a passion, avoided it at all costs.

Now, I’ll just bet that even though events seem to be an ideal breeding ground for the extrovert in all of us, there are still people that need some help, a bit of guidance, or the ability to get what they want, interact with who they’re interested in and learn – but all from a safe distance.

And that’s what we’ve been focusing on in the buildout of “The Thing“.

The reality of “Event Bookmarking” takes advantage of the 9 practices put forth in this excellent article by Rob May of the Business Pundit blog.  In it, Rob talks about How To Network, if you’re an introvert.

Reading between the lines, event managers can learn alot about the kinds of systems, tools and support infrastructure that will help EVERYONE, including the introvert, realize maximum ROI from an event.

As Rob writes:  “Connections make the world go round” and the successful event planner will help keep that world spinning by recognizing that these 9 simple ideas get introverts out of their own way:

1. Networking is an investment, not a nuisance.
2. At first, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
3. Don’t spend too much time on it, or spend too much time with one person/group.
4. Do cool things and participate in cool activities.
5. Invite people to go do things.
6. Go regularly to places or things you like.
7. Analyze your results.
8. Find the key nodes within the network.
9. Don’t network, just to network.  Make it goal directed.

To read more, visit: How to Network for Introverts and then once you do, “get out there”!