NYCREW holds panel discussion on traditional and online networking

The New York Commercial Real Estate Women's Network (NYCREW), recently held a panel discussion titled, "Effective Networking: How to be a Superstar." NYCREW president, Anna Cassan de Valry, associate director of Real Estate Capital Markets at Barclays Capital, said, "Networking is an activity crucial to NYCREW members in the development of business opportunities, career progress, and professional growth. The new on-line networking tools present both enormous opportunities and challenges to real estate and finance professionals." The panelists included Jennifer Magee, co-founder and CEO of UPworld.com; Trish Rubin of New York Minute; Olivia Fox Cabane of Spitfire Communications and Gil Allison of Right Management. Diane Schottenstein, Esq., of Seward & Kissel LLP, moderated the panel discussion. Jennifer Magee is a New York City-based real estate development consultant and architect. She co-founded UPworld.com in 2007 as an on-line networking community and tool for international real estate, finance, architecture and building professionals to share expertise, develop deals and project ideas, generate leads, and easily create project and advisory teams at virtually any location in the U.S. and overseas. The network boasts membership of more than 2,000 professionals, and was recently featured by GlobeSt.com as a leading relational capital-building resource in the real estate industry. Relational communications trainer and networking guru Trish Rubin is president of The EdVentures Group and Trish Rubin's New York Minute. She's the author of the popular business communications book series The New York Minute Guide to Event Networking. Rubin is a member of the National Speakers Association and has spoken at international and national conferences and association meetings, most recently at the United Nations NGO/DPI general session. Olivia Fox Cabane is a speaking and communications coach, and founder of Spitfire Communications. She is also the author of The Pocket Guide to Becoming a Superstar in Your Field, a handbook on the art of networking. She has lectured on charisma at Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. Career advisor Gil Allison is senior vice president at Right Management Consultants. He consults businesses on attracting and developing highly competent employees and coaches individuals on the effective use of networking in managing professional advancement, career transition, and job search. NYCREW, New York Commercial Real Estate Women's Network is the New York Chapter of the national Commercial Real Estate Women's Network. NYCREW is devoted to the achievement of parity and providing opportunities for women in commercial real estate. The New York Chapter supports its members through professional development and skills training, organization of frequent networking events, and presentations by industry and political leaders. NYCREW also facilitates community outreach and supports charitable endeavors. The organization has 8,000 members nationwide and includes senior executives and professionals from major national and regional real estate brokerage, development, banking and finance, property management, consulting, design, and construction firms. Information on joining NYCREW and its activities is available at www.nycrew.org.