I attended a meeting yesterday on Effective Networking orgnized by the various groups on Brookline that support women-owned businesses.  Usually, these networking things spend about 95% of the time with a guest speaker who talks all about the different tactics on networking and then 5% of the meeting is alloted to meeting the people present and well, networking.  I was pleasantly surprised that this meeting was actually more intent on us putting the networking advise to practice rather than sitting in uncomfortable chairs listening to a speaker drone on and on.

So, what’s so funny about this event?  Well, you see, there was a raffle from the attendee’s business cards – pretty standard stuff. I didn’t have a business card, so I filled out a blank.  I completely forgot about this towards the end of the meeting because I met amazing people and the raffle had not real consequence to the proceedings.  So, as with all of these things, there is usually a raffle administrator looking for someone to pull cards from the pile.   I step up and lend a helping hand (literally) and yank a card.  In my usual, off handed way, while I do this, I say – “Would it be a problem if I pulled out mine?”  A split second later I pulled out my business card from a pile of at least 60 cards.