Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called The World’s Best Known Marketing Secret. In it, I discussed several terms new to the business community, specifically about how they could help grow a business.

I know that networking is a “bad word” for some folks, even cause for anxiety. Seeing a “networking event” on the calendar might make you sigh loudly and start looking for any excuse to get out of it.

To me, a network would be something where information flows in multiple directions, where there is osmosis, where there is exchange of thoughts and ideas, where there is knowledge of other components ...

The interconnections of nodes in a communications network. Nodes are wired together in a star, bus or ring architecture. Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus.