Have an Up-to-Date Database

[Maria Elena Duron]

For networking, connecting, friend-raising, fundraising or job hunting, having the ability to connect with your connections BEFORE YOU NEED them is key.

It's not just WHO you know and WHO KNOWS YOU WELL, it's also WHO can you get in touch with.

Keeping up to date with your database makes sure that you are engaged with those people who can have tremendous influence on the success and time invested in your career transition. It is best to dig your well before you're thirsty. Yet, if you're caught in the situation of having to look now, be sure to:

* Join Plaxo so that you can stay connected and reconnect with your contacts/clients and friends.
* Review all your contact phone numbers and email addresses. I guarantee that you have people in your database who haven't worked at the company you have listed for them...IN YEARS!
* Create a LinkedIn profile so that you can reconnect with those who are active in their industry and they can also connect you with opportunities and who you need to know.

[Carlos]

I thought Plaxo was the most stupidest idea to get involved in, but if I have to use it for my business, so be it.

LinkedIn needs a new way of introducing new people, and actually reaching out to the right people - and to be able to reach them without HAVING to connect with them or BE connected to them in the sense of - knowing them.

[Maria Elena Duron]

Carlos,

As a social networking platform, I agree that "Plaxo' is definitely not IT. Yet, as a tool that will help you keep you database up to date, that's easy and automatic, that Plaxo is the one that easily available and very easy to use.