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If you want to network, it's a good idea to create something of value first. I did this in the form of a magazine (http://www.interestingtimesmagazine.com http://www.interestingtimesmagazine.com) which has allowed me to reach out to a ton of people. I am always sending out links to people and hooking various e-acquaintances up with each other ("why don't you interview this friend of mine for your podcast?"). When you do this for long enough, I think everything just starts to fall into place. It's not something I do with a conscious plan, most of it is just because I see an opportunity to do something cool (ie get my buddy on a podcast or whatever). In the cheesy New Age hoodoo-voodoo $29.95 frou-frou flim-flam world of self-help we call this having abundance mentality. It has a lot of connotations, one of them being that if you see a resource as available and abundant to you, and don't come from a super-greedy frame of mind, things will be easier. There is probably a logical explanation why this works too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People#Abundance_mentality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effe...