To some people -- the born politicians, the savvy socialites and the classic sales professional -- networking comes naturally. However, for the rest of us, finding contacts, getting up the courage to call or meet them, and then following through can be daunting.

We offer the following third-party resources to help you design, develop and implement your contact network:

LinkedIn.com
With LinkedIn, you find the people, jobs and services you need through the people you know and trust, while you strengthen and extend your existing network. LinkedIn also allows users to research companies with which they may be interested in working. When typing the name of a given company in the search box, statistics about the company are provided. These may include the ratio of female to male employees, the percentage of the most common titles/positions held within the company, the location of the company's headquarters and offices, or a list of present and former employees.

Facebook.com

Facebook is a social networking service and website which has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.

Twitter.com

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Connect with virtually thousands of other people by "following" them or having them "follow" you.

Spoke.com
Spoke was built to be the ultimate sales prospecting tool. By enabling sales professionals to leverage an extended network of nearly 30 million people at over 500,000 companies, Spoke delivers the information and access needed to get access to new accounts and accelerate the sales cycle.

Spoke can also be effectively utilized in a job search campaign, extending your reach to thousands of employee hiring managers and recruiters.

ZoomInfo.com

ZoomInfo also allows users to collaborate in the construction of its content by contributing information to their own profiles or building new ones where none exists. Their database holds 45 million profiles of business professionals and 5 million company profiles. The features of their site allow users to search based on name, company, location, vertical segments to generate leads.