With the ready availability of mass communications, it has become very easy to reach the media on a large scale through email blasts, media alerts, and wire services. But just reaching them isn’t enough – you also have to reach them effectively and catch their attention in order to get coverage. We sometimes focus so Read More...

MediaBistro.com grew out of the cocktail parties that Glamour magazine contributing editor Laurel Touby started holding for her fellow journalists to get together, talk shop, and socialize. She started realizing the tremendous potential for what she was doing when she started getting feedback that her cocktail parties were “changing people’s lives”. That cocktail party has since grown into a thriving online community with over 150,000 registered members and cocktail parties in more than a dozen cities around the world.

Although networking is commonly thought of primarily as a tool for bringing in business and finding a job, social activists, politicians and not-for-profit organizations focused on humanitarian efforts have always had networking at the core of their existence.

Business networkers have long used school alumni groups and local professional networks for professional and business development purposes, as well as for job search. Recently, a new platform has emerged: corporate alumni programs.