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Welcome
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Welcome to the first edition of the Nextworking
newsletter! Our goal is to provide you with fun,
interesting information about Nextworking
events; reading recommendations to
enhance your conversations; preferred
destinations around the Twin Cities for your next
night out with clients or friends; and other tools
and resources to help you improve your networking
skills while having fun in the process.
Enjoy!
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Nextworking Night Out
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Mark your calendar as we ring in 2007 with our 2nd
Annual Nextworking Wine Tasting on Friday, January
26, at Martini Blu. Mix and mingle your way through
a variety of wine and food combinations masterfully
paired by the wine reps themselves. Build your
professional (and personal) network and be eligible
to win featured wines throughout the evening. We
can't think of a better way to warm up a cold
winter's night with 200+ of your finance and
accounting peers!
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Member Spotlight
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Emily Takkunen is a CPA and Financial Analyst II at
General Mills, a leading global food manufacturer
and marketer of some of the world's most trusted
brands. Recently promoted from Betty Crocker baking
products to the Yoplait division, Emily works in
marketing finance, doing new product development and
analysis for Yoplait cup and beverage.
Born and raised in Madison, WI, Emily received both
her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Accounting
from UW-Madison before starting with General Mills.
She is poised to start her MBA program at the
University of St. Thomas in January and has been an
active Nextworking planning committee member since
our group's inception.
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On the Spot
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In this day and age of fast-paced, electronic
correspondence, is it appropriate to send
post-interview thank you notes by email or are
handwritten notes still the preferred
choice? We posed this popular question to
our recruiting experts and they had a lot to say.
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The Book for Your Buy List
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Never
Eat Alone and Other Secrets to Success,
One Relationship at a Time
The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi
claims, is in reaching out to other people. What
distinguishes
highly successful people from everyone else is the
way they use the power of relationships - so that
everyone wins.
In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out
the specific steps - and inner mindset - he uses to
reach out to connect with the thousands of
colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex,
people he has helped and who have helped him.
 Ferrazzi's
form of connecting to the world around him
is based on generosity, helping friends connect with
other friends. Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine
relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad -
handling usually associated with "networking." He
then distills his system of reaching out to people into
practical, proven principles.
Chock full of specific advice on handling rejection,
getting past gatekeepers, becoming a "conference
commando," and more, Never Eat Alone
is destined to take its place alongside
How to Win Friends and Influence
People as an inspirational classic.
Reprinted from Never Eat Alone.
Copyright 2005 by Keith Ferrazzi. All rights
reserved.
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Best Kept Secret
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Can you keep a secret? Neither can we when it comes
to great dining deals, above and beyond service
experiences, undiscovered day trips, and other
treasures from the Twin Cities and beyond. Do you
know of something that's too good to keep quiet? Email us and it
just might make a future edition of The Spot.
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