Following from a previous post Pleasure to Meet You. In it I wrote about the simple networking practice of sending an E-Mail to someone after you have may them at an event or networking meeting.
So what next? Well not a lot. What is really tempting is to get your new contact's e-mail address and stick it on a list of requests on your LinkedIn account to boost your connections. This is to be avoided. Social networking sites are a tremendous way of keeping touch with contacts, I use Facebook as an alternative to email to keep contact with my friends and family, but unlike others I don't have 399 "friends''.
Whilst not everyone shares this view, I think that LinkedIN and Facebook are tools for keeping in contact with genuine colleagues and friends, if the relationship has no basis in real world then you have no business making "friends " with someone on line.
It follows therefore that requesting a LinkedIn arrangement from someone you have met once and who is yet to write back to you might be seen as bad manners. Like I say, not everyone takes this view, but it is best to be safe and not be seen as too pushy, by waiting for a reply to an e-mail before beginning to tie the virtual knot.
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