Each day I read information from a good number of websites. The ones I choose have subject matter that covers different topics and categories. I've done this for many years. In our office, we have some very committed readers, readers of books and listeners of audiobooks, podcasts or books-on-tape. Our Senior Executive Council encourages reading good business related or self improvement books each month. To say I'm hooked on reading wouldn't be accurate, because I'm not hooked on reading books. I don't set aside "quiet time" for myself to sit and look at a book. I do scour the Internet each week and learn a tremendous amount from websites, links and blogs. I don't know in the grand scheme of our company, if this "counts" as far our reading initiative goes. But I like it, I learn, I grow, so I keep doing it. Here's what I came across this morning on arstechnica.com, a cool site I frequent:
If this isn't exactly what we've told our franchisees to do at Australasian Expo and Euro Expo, then tuck me back in my corner! LinkedIn is a fantastic site for you to get to know others and leverage the business relationships you already have. That's what the article discusses. If you're a US or Canadian franchisee, you'll see my explanation of this in the next issue of your franchisee magazine. I will explain what we've done and how you can & should be involved. Don't worry, this is FREE! Have a look at what's being said, check out my LinkedIn page if you'd like, and dive in. It just might help!
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Dave Masterson