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This is a blog about finding work, surviving your job, and networking in Colorado. My background is corporate HR mixed with opera singing and speaking and writing about work and networking. I'm a working mom with five kids ages four to thirteen.

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Starved for Networking in Denver
Contributed by: Liz Ryan   on 4/12/2007

If you grew up here in Denver, I can imagine how sick you are of hearing people rave about New York and San Francisco and Chicago. But for the transplants, it's a shock coming to a town without networking.

When I ask people where they go for business networking in Denver, they tell me about their leads groups. Okay, that's one kind of networking -- but I mean the general, open-to-all, entrepreneurs-mixed-with-corporate people networking that is so omnipresent in other cities.

Here's an example: in Chicago, there are 35 bricks-and-mortar professional clubs. I mean old stone buildings with pools and squash courts. Some people belong to two or three of them - I joined one, just for an anthropological experience, and was it ever. It was called the University Club. Back in '98 or '99 when I joined, the dues were about $200 a month, and then of course you had to pay for your lunches and so on; but it was worth it, because you could always get a table at lunchtime in Chicago when the restaurants are packed. I tried to avoid wearing zebra striped spandex and that sort of thing to the University Club. It was not that kind of party.

Here, there are no bricks-and-mortar professional clubs - or maybe there's one that I haven't heard of -- so you'd expect there to be eight zillion business networking groups. But there aren't - not the kind where corporate types and entrepreneurs mingle, with regular events and speakers and so on. Why is that?

I had a women's online network called RockyWIT, and now I have an email group called AskLizRyan which is fun and handy. Perhaps we will plan a Denver face-to-face event. But what do you suspect is the problem? People around here seem to go to work and then go home. When there are so many fascinating people to meet!


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Liz Ryan

Boulder , CO

Liz Ryan has posted 2 blog entries and 0 comments since joining on 4/10/2007. Liz Ryan 's average blog rating is 5.
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