In 21st century America, starting a dialogue with a unknown person is downright suspect. Making eye contact is awkward. It is best to look busy by engaging with the little screens we carry. It is possible to hide behind the impersonal walls many put up to circumvent face to face contact at inappropriate times. However, what if face to face contact was needed? What is the easiest method to engage a stranger in a conversation? How about many hundreds of strangers inside a crowd of thousands? How About name tags?

Developing the simplest human relationship has grown to be very hard for some. We have been more connected, but less connected. It can be incredibly easy to go through life avoiding actual connection with strangers and neighbors, the very people we must engage if we are going to reach out for almost any purpose ın any way.

During a recently unprecedented blitz against social awkwardness, Meetup.com along with the Huffington Post decided to hand out more than a half a million name tags to the crowd during a recent presidential Inauguration. The name tags read Hello, My Fellow American, My Name Is… and attendees were to write in their name, where they are from and slap it on their coat to start discussions with fellow Americans.

In accomplishing this, they turned a crowd into a community.

Everyone is considerably more open to approach and conversation with strangers when their name is visible, as in on name badges. Consider name tags or name badges the next time you are networking inside a large crowd of strangers. You are definite to start conversations which could become productive and possible even profitable in the end.