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SMS’ Can Relieve Stressed, Lonely People

SMS Text Messages Relieve Stressed, Lonely PeopleBERKELEY — Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behaviour such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has found an upside to texting, especially for people who feel stressed out, isolated and alone. Text messages in cognitive behaviour therapy can make people feel less isolated Adrian Aguilera, a clinical psychologist who treats many low-income Latinos for depression and other mental disorders, said his patients report feeling more connected and cared for when they receive text Read More →

LinkedIn Coach helps you capture business opportunities

LinkedIn is the global leader in online business networking. In 2011, the company successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and announced it has over 120 million active users. According to some reports there are more than 1.1 million South African business people using LinkedIn and the growth continues. Business networking has never been more critical as more and more people are trying to find the right business partners, the right staff or the right leadership. Your LinkedIn Coach is a valuable partner to sidestep the complexity or Read More →

How not to network videos

More examples of how not to approach business networking events. Essential networking skills are missing from these video's. You can view more of these videos on the Kintish Youtube Channel:
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Business networking tips – How not to network

Today I conducted a trial run for my new business social networking workshop. It was well received overall and I'll be formally launching this in March. Anyone in sales, marketing or self-employed, entrepreneurs or small business owners will benefit from this workshop. In the mean time enjoy this hilarious clip... Read More →

The Connections Show, an excellent business networking podcast

Stan Relihan Sydney Autralia LinkedIn userThe Connections Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Stan Relihan, one of Australia's most connected LinkedIn users, and a professional recruiter based in Sydney. This is one of the most practically useful business podcasts I've discovered on the Web. And it's a real surprise that it comes from Australia, not America like most of the other podcasts I subscribe to using Apple iTunes. So far there's been 23 shows and I listen to them religiously. One of the motivations is that Read More →

Download LinkedIn Lessons ebook

This week I'm expanding my LinkedIn connections. This has become a ritual that I undergo every two or three months. What I do is I identify a group of people and I invite as many of them to connect with Ramon Thomas on  LinkedIn, the top business social network. Anyway, here's the problem: Business social networking is something I truly believe in and have a lot to say about. So rather than posting is here, I've decided to put it into a downloadable PDF document and you can download it LinkedIn Lessons. I highly encourage you to pass it Read More →

My CNBC Africa interview on Business Networking

MANDLAKAZI MPAHLWA host Kaleidoscope CNBC AfricaOn Wednesday I will be interviewed for the 2nd time on the Kaleidoscope show on CNBC Africa. The focus was on business networking and social networking. Here's some of the what I covered in the interview with Mandlakazi Mpahlwa: MM: How does a delegate begin to Network? RT: Learn to ask questions. You do not have to have all the answers but if you can ask good questions you allow the other person to open up and tell you what's most Read More →

How to Increase Your Online Profile with LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a very popular business social networking website. The primary aim of LinkedIn is to help you connect with other professionals directly within our own country and worldwide. It now have over 9 million registered users. South Africa currently has 24800 users and I've just entered the top 5. This is up from #8 which I've been for the last few months. My goal is to reach number 1 before end of 2007. View Ramon Thomas's profile on LinkedInLinkedIn in allows you to create a Public Profile with a unique Read More →

Interview on Radio 2000 discussing LinkedIn

Tonight, Monday 29 January at 7pm I will be interviewed on Radio 2000 (99.7FM) by Allon Raiz with my friend Brian Carl Brown discussing LinkedIn and Social Networking for Entrepreneurs. This is just one of many recent interviews I've done in the month of January. So the year is getting off to rockin' start. This a must for entrepreneurs, small business owners, sales and marketing, event managers, recruitment consultants; and all those who's job it is to create new partnerships and build relationships quickly as well as people who would like to improve their referability. Other recent interviews Read More →

Guy Kawasaki on LinkedIn

Guy KawasakiI've just broken through the 500 connections on LinkedIn and wanted to share a great new article by Guy Kawasaki, someone I have great respect for, discussing this amazingly useful website. Guy Kawasaki was the Chief Evangelist at Apple Computer for a long time and came from the Jewellery industry. You must read his excellent blog post: Ten Ways To Use LinkedIn. And next to that I highly, highly recommend you watch (download) this 40 minute video where Guy delivers one of the most brilliant Read More →
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