You’re post got my thinking about some interesting thing. I’m a part of a student organization called AIESEC were we go to A LOT of international conferences to discuss leadership development, entrepreneurship, etc. I find that even though we’re blessed with a large group of high end users of MSN, Facebook etc. people tend to keep the contact between conferences fairly superficial (they connect on the social networks - but then they don’t actually interact).

I’ve been lookign for ways to stimulate more interaction, I’ve come used to calling (given that I work for a company that facilitates it - Rebtel) them, but also to trying to send them regular “ping” e-mails, updating myself on what they’re up to… but it’s pretty hard to keep it all alive - any clever ideas here?