Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Establishing professional contacts around the world is very beneficial in the education field. One will have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences with others while forming relationships. Thus far, I have been unsuccessful in contacting anyone from the two websites that were provided in the blog resources. Firstly, I did not try to reach out to the two professionals outside the world until Wednesday. I was very focused on my discussion assignment at this time and had no idea what was to come for the blog assignment. Once I started my assignment, I emailed each of them introducing myself and what questions or concerns I had regarding their organizations. After emailing UNICEF, the organization emailed me the next day with the following message:

"Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for your message.
Regrettably, due to the volume of such requests that we receive and the volume of work we have here at UNICEF's global headquarters, we cannot devote staff time to respond in depth to all messages. We greatly regret that this is the case.
However, we believe that our website is an excellent source of information on UNICEF-related issues. We would kindly encourage you to revisit our website (www.unicef.org) and, in the Search box, perform a search using key words related to your topic. That will yield many results and get you off to a very good start.
Again, we are sorry we cannot be of more direct assistance.
Sincerely,
UNICEF"

My next goal will include to contact them again and hope for better results. I have yet to hear from the other organzation and will continue to contact them. At this point, I will proceed with this approach and will not use alternative to part 1. Also, the website I will study is the Children's Defense Fund. While scanning through the other websites, it was a no brainier for me to choose this organization because I had the opportunity to work for them as a work-study student in college. This will be a perfect opportunity for me to research their goals and achievements and will remain current with their organization.

One helpful tip I will provide for my colleagues is to not hesitate to contact the professionals. Get a head start, as some organizations are very busy responding to others and may delay a reply to you.

This assignment will be very interesting; I'm ready for the new knowledge I will gain from my contacts around the world.