updated July 2021 How do you walk into a room of strangers and make new friends? Or what about staring at your screen at a bunch of smaller windows in a Zoom call. How do you make it less awkward and actually connect with someone when you aren't even together? Those are questions that sneak into into our minds when we join a group of people we don't know. And there's no easy answer in sight. That's why networking events, everything from conference cocktail hours to Chamber of Commerce breakfasts to online networking lunches, fill so many of us with dread. In fact, it's why so many of us skip them altogether. But what if … [Read more...]