Administrative partner Teresa Ryder Bult has a guest post this week: "Inverting Views on Networking: How Can You Influence Someone's Life Today?"

Hint: Don't make it all about you.

(Teresa is the original founding chair of Constangy's Women's Network.)

One more thing: The FOCUS blog was having technical difficulties with email notifications to subscribers. The problem appears to have now been fixed, and if you subscribed, you should be receiving an email within 24 hours of any new post. (If you haven't subscribed, then just do it!) If you subscribe and did not get an email this week, check your spam filter and make sure that the email isn't trapped in there, screaming to get out. If it's in the spam filter, just release and "safelist" it, and you should receive regular notifications from that point on.