Real networking is a long game of giving before asking. These articles cover building professional relationships that lead somewhere, from conferences and referrals to the online connections that turn into work.
networkingSeptember 1, 2026
A system went down on a Friday night and I discovered that twenty years in the industry had produced nobody I could call. I sat in an empty office surrounded by broken computers and worked out what was missing.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAugust 15, 2026
LinkedIn strategist Craig Leonard on how the interest-based algorithm decides who sees you, why most profiles read like resumes, and where AI helps and where it wrecks the job.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAugust 14, 2026
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
Incident ResponseJuly 4, 2026
Somebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
The fake UPS email arrived five minutes after my real eBay order, pixel-perfect, and I clicked it. Then the screen turned red: infection stopped, infection stopped, infection stopped. That is what layers are for, because the one filter that always…
Incident ResponseJuly 4, 2026
Clean machine A. While you are cleaning machine B, machine C reinfects A. We played whack-a-mole against a network worm that never got tired, and lost, until we stopped treating machines and started treating the network.
IntrovertJune 13, 2026
A complete failure, millions on the line by Monday morning, every vendor number unanswered. Twenty years in the industry and not one person I could call.
LeadershipFebruary 9, 2026
Most networking groups are stale coffee and a parade of elevator pitches, everyone selling, nobody listening, a wasted morning in a hotel conference room. Eliances is the rare exception, and after nine months I still look forward to Tuesdays because…
Authority BuildingMay 12, 2025
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins Michael A. Forman on Networking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections for a conversation built around one
AI and WritingApril 22, 2025
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) appears as a guest on Interchain Live, cross-posted to the Are We Here Yet? podcast and the Innova802 network, for a long
AI and WritingMarch 14, 2025
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins Michael Bernzweig on the Consulting Spotlight, part of the Software Oasis Podcast Network, for a conversation aimed
Authority BuildingFebruary 10, 2025
Tequila and Tech Talk is a virtual networking symposium for cybersecurity and technology leaders, co-hosted by Richard Lowe (The Writing King) and Natan
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