Have you heard of face-to-face networking events where nobody speaks?
In San Francisco and a few other cities they've held events where people "talk" by writing notes to each other. It sure beats trying to make a new contact with loud music making it hard to hear the person you're talking to.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/21/DDG96FQOH11.DTL
