Networking for Lurkers, Even If You Don't Want to Network
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Networking for Lurkers
The beauty of online professional communities is that you don’t HAVE to be actively involved to benefit from the networking opportunities. While actively getting to know each other is the best way to help TARGET job and skill-specific opportunities, posts to the community at large can still be a huge benefit. 
If all you’re comfortable doing is lurking (reading and learning without active participation), do it. Lurk away. Most people read a whole lot more in online communities than they post, anyway. Lurking may not get you the most “focused” eyes and ears, but reading the general discussion threads and posts is still a fantastic method to network, even under the most constrained conditions. For additional information, see the Network, Network, Network series of blog posts:
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