{"id":125,"date":"2006-11-07T23:15:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T07:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2006-11-14T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T21:02:23","slug":"networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/networking\/","title":{"rendered":"networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there are a few networking opportunities within Sigma that you should take action to be a part of:<\/p>\n<p>if HQ has your current address, you should have received a form letter from Harris Connect Inc. about the membership directory. this is the same company that compiled the directory most recently. i&#8217;ve also seen a few emails sent around about this. in case you didn&#8217;t get it, you can call Harris Connect at 800-476-9272. i have a personal ID on my post card (assume it was assigned to me when i filled out the form last time) and not sure how it&#8217;ll work, but let&#8217;s go ahead and submit our info.<\/p>\n<p>secondly, i want to plug the Affinity Tree which powers the <a href=\"http:\/\/pbs1914.org\/AT\/login\/login.asp?requestedPage=\/MemberServices\/member_services_menu.asp?\">Sigma Network on the national site<\/a>. it costs nothing to submit your information to create a profile and if you wish to pay the $20 yearly fee, you get additional functionality like being able to email the network. at the very least, this channel will add your email to a distribution list used by HQ from time to time so it&#8217;s a quick and easy way to get into the loop.<\/p>\n<p>\nwhile these two things are nice, we need something that really does network our membership. how many people actually paid for the $100+ membership directory from harris connect? how many of you who did provide their info to the directory were even contacted by another Brother for opportunities? and don&#8217;t get me started on a hardcopy directory. that&#8217;s so last century. the Affinity Tree has more potential to power the organization&#8217;s membership platform than the networking platform. there are far more advanced, feature rich social networking platforms out there that can do a much better job. oh and they&#8217;re free too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there are a few networking opportunities within Sigma that you should take action to be a part of: if HQ has your current address, you should have received a form letter from Harris Connect Inc. about the membership directory. this is the same company that compiled the directory most recently. i&#8217;ve also seen a few &#8230; <a title=\"networking\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/networking\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">networking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}