The BNI International Directors' Conference kicked off today in Long Beach, CA with close to 600 BNI Directors from across the globe in attendance and everyone's all a twitter!

Watch this great BBC TV video piece which documents the Rochester, UK BNI Dickens chapter in action and highlights why BNI is the perfect remedy for a recession!

Two recent BNI Podcast episodes, "Quantum Chapter Growth" and "Fast Track with Networking Secrets," reveal how BNI chapters in Texas are remarkably increasing their numbers of weekly referrals and significantly growing their chapters by strategically utilizing "BNI Networking Secrets."

We all know that businesses grow through lasting relationships and BNI-supporter Ed Wallace has written a great book called Business Relationships That Last which gives powerful advice on how to think about and build relationships that last to get the most from your networking efforts.