Social networking helps, too, by disseminating links to comics like wildfire.
I asked her how social networking helps her develop her stories.
Rob Barlow, 46, from Redcar, has changed careers twice and believes networking helped him to make the initial leap.
Calipari, who was first encouraged by Indiana Coach Tom Crean to become active on Twitter, says social networking helps him connect with Kentucky fans, who are famously rabid.
"We didn't know the rusty old stuff was worth that," says Jo Swift, whose networking helped raise £3,000 sponsorship from local business 3M Healthcare.
By many accounts, the new arsenal of social networking helped accelerate Tunisia's revolution, driving the country's ruler of 23 years, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, into ignominious exile and igniting a conflagration that has spread across the Arab world at breathtaking speed.
Networking helps you understand what skills an employer is seeking, so you can obtain those skills before submitting a job application.
Some of these folks chose to stay and others chose to go, but in all cases I heard about, networking helped them shake off some of the self-doubt and debris that had accumulated in their old lives.
Networking helps entrepreneurs calibrate the set of experiences they want, the type of background they want, and the kind of chemistry they're looking for.
The Ogilvy Dot: Networking helps.
