7 Tips & Counting for Leveraging Your Social Network
Submitted by David on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 2:21pm.
Much of our training for AmeriCorps members and other community leaders this year has focused on the theme of "Leveraging Social Networks for Social Impact". For instance, I recently led a brown bag session on this subject at the Boston Center for Community & Justice.
Getting ready for our session on this subject matter for our Leadership Woburn adult community leader training tomorrow night, and thought I'd share the list of 7 Tips for Leveraging Your Social Network that we've used previously, and see what other additions people would add to this list. Add your comments below:
- Have clear goals in mind when trying to leverage your social network. This applies to planning outreach for a project and using social networking tools.
- Cultivating and expanding your network over time is crucial to effectiveness.
- Making visual social network maps is an important step in building and using a network to achieve a goal.
- Map networks that exist in the community, then consider relationships you have, looking for points of leverage.
- Concentrate the majority of outreach time on personal contact with existing network, as it will typically generate best results.
- Need to make “deposits” to build up your social capital, as opposed to always making withdrawals from your relationships.
- Get to know people in your network. Keep in mind their interests and goals when reaching out to them for something you are trying to do.
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