Networking sites are useful to increase the chance to:
Pivot (Proquest) is a database of funding opportunities and scholar profiles for University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Platform for researchers and administrators to identify new funding opportunities and potential collaborators, while offering insights and short-cuts to help research organizations obtain funding.
Academia.edu is a growing network of over 7 million members for researchers to share their publications and view analytics on their profiles and publications. You can log in with a Facebook or Google+ account, or create an Academia.edu account to get started. The Academia.edu FAQ answers questions about uploading or importing papers and working with their analytics tools. Full text publications are indexed by Google Scholar.
ResearchGate is a social network for scientists with over 3 million members from many disciplines with the biggest submissions from medicine and biology, followed by engineering, chemistry, computer science, physics, economics, etc. Set up a profile or login with Facebook, add publications, connect and collaborate with colleagues, co-authors and specialists in your field, get statistics about your views, downloads, and citations of your research, ask questions and get solutions to your research problems.