hannukah

Tonight is the first night of Hannukah.  This basically means that I will be spending the next 7 days gorging on Latkes and Jelly Donuts.  But that’ll all start tomorrow because tonight I’ll be attending my first Exectec meeting – this is basically an LA based networking group that meets once per week in Westwood to discuss all sorts of topics that may interest LA-based technology executives.  Tonight they’ll be discussing social networking sites and how to best utilize them for networking purposes – I am sure that we’ll cover sites like Linkedin, facebook, plaxo and other such sites.  I use all of these sites in my personal and professional networking activities.  From a personal perspective, I have been able to connect with some great old friends from my high school and college days who I would have never connected with if not for these sites.  From a business perspective, LinkedIn has been an amazing tool to help me find people that I would have taken me hours and hours of legwork to find.  OK, I gotta go to the meeting.  I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow…