Following neatly on from the last post, with a more positive slant (!) here's a few suggestions for making those important real world networking occassions slightly less painful.
There's a whole lot of advice around these days on the etiquette for social networking - but the real world version is still pretty important! As someone who 'gets about a bit' in the nicest possible way, here's my Top 5 Networking Not Tos (followed by How Tos).