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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

372: How to Take the Work out of Networking with Karen Wickre

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 25 November 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Karen Wickre shares ways both introverts and extroverts can grow their networks without that transactional feeling.


You’ll Learn:

1) A pro-tip for how to build up your network despite social anxiety

2) How to farm for contacts instead of hunting for them

3) The strength of weak ties


About Karen

Karen Wickre is the former Editorial Director at Twitter, where she landed after a decade-long career at Google. She is a member of the Board of Visitors for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, and serves on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, the News Literacy Project, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has been a featured columnist for Wired.com and is a cofounder of Newsgeist, an annual gathering conference fostering new approaches to news and information. She is the author of Taking the Work Out of Networking and lives in San Francisco.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:19.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode

0:21.4

372 with Karen Wickry.

0:23.7

Karen is talking about how to take the work out of networking.

0:26.8

So you'll learn one, a pro tip for how to build your network despite social anxiety.

0:31.4

Two, how to farm for contacts instead of hunting for them, and three, the strength

0:36.0

of weak ties.

0:37.3

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, or the links to Islands we've referenced,

0:40.1

you'll find that over at awesome at your job. dot com slash f372.

0:44.0

While you're at awesome at your job

0:45.4

dot com I encourage you to check out some of our cool resources.

0:47.9

One cool resource is the gold nugget email list.

0:50.4

If you sign up for that you get access to summary insights. It takes two to four minutes to read the wisdom a guest has to share from a full episode. All the faster so you can get that to your inbox or reference it online forever from

1:03.7

Karen and the 371 guests who preceded her and the many to follow her that's called

1:09.2

the gold nuggets over at awesome at your job.com now here's Karen's story

1:12.3

Karen Wickery is the former editorial director at at awesome at your job. Now here's Karen's story.

1:12.5

Karen Wickery is the former editorial director at Twitter

1:15.3

where she landed after a decade long career at Google.

1:18.0

She's a member of the Board of Visitors for the John S. Knight

1:21.1

journalism fellowships at Stanford University and serves on the boards

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