More expert business advice from social networking guru Penny Power, Founder of Ecademy. In this business tv show she gives straight forward advice and tips on how to make more friends online: “When anybody asks me ‘how do I start to connect with people?’ just think about the real world if you went into a moved into a pub, into a village and you went to the bar you wouldn’t go in there and hand out your business care to everyone and start broadcasting what you were doing. What you would actually do is you'd sit quietly by the bar and you might buy the person next to you a drink and start talking to them but think about what you would do. You would ask them questions, you would show a huge interest in them, that's how to start in a social network click on some profiles and write to them and say fantastic to hear that you enjoy swimming and you live near a lake and in Italy, how beautiful that must be. Put out the hand of friendship to them. The friendship is what you want to create inside a social network, a business network successful when you create the friendships first its relationship first, business second and so always look for opportunities to show an interest in the other person. Testimonials are really important, if somebody’s written a great blog, go onto their profile and write a great testimonial and say ‘I just want to say what a great blog you wrote and put a link into that blog’, that's doing that person a real favour - but remember you're leaving your link on that persons profile as well so people that write testimonials about me will obviously, my profile is busy, look for the profiles where people are busy and anybody who writes a testimonial on that persons profile providing they have some value to give in that, its not just a ‘Hi, nice to meet you’ because that's not what a testimonial is about, but actually something that endorses that answer, and says the value they felt that they gave you. Do that, that's putting out a hand, that's a really nice gesture. So ...