I attending the Social Media Club-Louisville meet-up last night, renewing existing acquaintances and meeting quite a few interesting individuals. It was an action packed couple of hours consisting of conversations on a wide variety of topics - some of which conversations I initiated, and some that were initiated by others.
As I'm sure you know, the general rule of thumb holds that I should follow-up with the contacts I made with-in a week to ten days. By the same token, each of those contacts should be following up with me during that same time period. So now the question is, who will follow-up first? An interesting question, and one that I've decided to explore by only following up over the next few days with half of the contacts I made. I will, of course, ultimately follow-up with all of them, but I'm just curious to see how many make contact with me first.
And no, I'm not going to disclose how I choose my groupings so if you're reading this after meeting me at the gathering you'll just have to wonder which group you'll fall in....