friends network

i've been busy the past week or two, doing some car paperwork (updating my license, etc) and doing some more things that have to do with moving to a new apartment. i've also been talking on the phone to several people and emailing people. communicating with new (and old) friends is becoming a full time job. i keep forgetting who i've talked to and who i haven't, and i have all these little slips of paper with notes written on them. i keep warning everyone that it might take several weeks to respond to an email, just because it requires mental focus for me to write an email to someone i don't know very well. i am still suffering from 'yes man syndrome' - too many yeses to too many people. too many confusing new obligations and dates and times and names. i don't have a secretary.

i was thinking about delegating my friendships to other friends. maybe i could tell some of these people to talk amongst themselves instead of to me. i'm only halfway joking, the other half is serious. i was wondering how to network people at a distance: how do you tell someone, 'do exactly what i'm doing, but do it someplace else, and then network with me to share our results?' for instance how would i start a work-exchange group in another town, without actually meeting the people myself, or going there to see them? i would just have to describe the idea and encourage somebody else to care about it. somebody else would do their own group and customize it to their local area.

i don't have time to write much more - i have to go to work. i mean, the work where i get a paycheck.