Over the years I have been asked "How did you become interconnected with so many other chemists?" or "How did you get involved with a journal/committee/society?" When I think of answers to these sorts of questions, I have not replied with what most people might think. These connections of being part of the active scientific community are not a matter of selling one's self. This is the common, but wrong, assumption. Networking is building a sense of community among scientists one knows. Unlike normal communal feelings, however, in this case one gets to choose and define who and what the community is since it is one's personal scientific network. Membership can be selective and exclusive, but very wide ranging.
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