Network with them throughout the year by sending casual e-mails asking them about their work.

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We then began asking questions about what type of content would work best within the video solution we were describing.

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Next my wife gets a phone message from a reporter Brian Krebs who used to work at the Washington Post asking about a security breach on POF.

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My friends stopped asking me out because I was always either at work or talking about work.

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As the rounds progress, you can dig deeper by asking questions that invite the other parties to share information about themselves and their work.

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His work was designed to elicit personal information by asking people open questions about themselves that could not be interpreted as having right or wrong answers.

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During a meeting the same year, Mr. Balsillie asked if RIM should be worried about a new trend: consumers bringing their own smartphones to work and asking their employer to let them work on the devices.

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The program will work by showing users a list of statements about a topic and then asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with each.

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