Networking Within Your Orgnaization

Cited from "Networking within your organization" from Lynda.com

The person with the biggest and highest quality network get the great assignments and they learn of opportunities before others do.

The number place to grow one's professional network is inside your current organization.

1. Volunteer for service committees. There are always a handful of committees or projects dedicated to revamping up policy, fixing something in the company or in the community, organizing people for a charity event or planning an upcoming company event. Sign up. You get to help others, while also helping yourself.
2. Consider creating a brown bag group. A brown bag group is a collection of professionals who voluntarily meet, usually over lunch, once a week or sometimes once a month, to discuss an agreed upon topic.
3. Find new lunch partners. Your goal, always find new lunch partners. If you a little shy, try scheduling lunch with two or three new people and also invite someone you already know to join the group.
4. Start a book club. How the application of connect of a book related to one's organization.
5. Be a connector. Don't think of networking in terms of how many folks you can meet. Instead, adopt a service mentality about networking.When you meet new folks, think about who you know that they might enjoy knowing or benefit from knowing. Ask them, "Hey do you know XXX?". If they don't, make the connection. The more people you connect, the bigger your network becomes.