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Meetup is a popular website for finding groups of people that want to... well meet up. This link can be an important resource for finding events to attend through which you can network, and can be a useful tool for advertising one's own organizations.

This brief article by Arnie Samlan supports the approach outlined in the article shared by Abby below. People are looking for relationships. I don't believe that this means that social networks are not, therefore, useful. Quite the opposite, it means that we need to think carefully about how we use them in tandem with critical offerings on a one-to-one basis.

Here at the Next Mile Project we are just starting to build and create our social media presence. At the same time, we are also trying to figure out how to explain what we want to post to others, like our media lab interns, so they can help us interact and share on social media...

Do you post social-media updates when your audience has the highest chance of seeing them, or just whenever you think of it or happen to have a free minute? If you aren't posting to a social media site when most of your audience members are on it, all that time you spent crafting the update goes to waste.