But it's important to break out of your comfort zone, expand your network and connect with broader groups.
As the word carol - a joyful song - suggests, carols bring us together and connect us in groups of shared experience and feelings.
The Dragonfly Effect, authored by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, examines how people are using social media to connect and form groups that create change throughout the globe.
Why not give them a way to connect with their groups inside and outside of work to make all of their life easier to manage, leaving more time to focus on value-added tasks at work.
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Under that two-year program, 15 American artists are deployed to countries as far apart as China to Venezuela to connect with local arts groups and create participatory work.
The company uses a nonprofit organization, Citizens Development Corps in Washington, to connect it with the overseas groups.
You also can join alumni groups on LinkedIn or Facebook and connect with fellow alumni, even if you don't know them personally.
Still, she says, the platforms can be a good way for causes to get exposure and connect with new donors, and can help smaller groups reach donors who may not have known about their work.
Katango users simply download the app, connect to Facebook, and their friends are automatically sorted into relevant groups.
While group chat apps like Groupme are popular at events, Topi is designed to create groups specifically to make it easier to meet people and connect at conferences.
Only Ron Paul, who has long had an outside-the-establishment message and following, is big on Meetup, with more than 700 groups and about 88, 000 members using the site to connect.
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Jonathan Read, chief executive officer of ECOtality, said that besides helping local governments, utilities and consumer groups set up charging networks, the primary goals are charging station projects that connect cities such as one planned for Interstate 5 along the West Coast.
Another company, called Linqia, searches the Web for passionate interest groups, from single mothers to Aston Martin fans, and figures out way to connect the appropriate companies with them.
Groups such as Highlands Before Pylons, which worries about the big pylons needed to connect new turbines to the power grid, have also multiplied, and are determined to get Britain demoted from the top spot.
There are now meetup groups in over 600 cities around the world, where fellow classmates and Coursera enthusiasts can connect.
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Standards groups like HomeGrid Forum and HomePlug Powerline Alliance will also be at CES promoting ways to connect all these things.
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