Liz Ryan on The Opposite of Networking:
Personal branding, typically of the most overwrought and preening variety, is all the rage. And people bring this self-promotion to networking, online and in person. One woman set up her Outlook account so that the “from” field on messages in your inbox doesn’t say “Jane Addams” but it says [...]
On the LinkedIn discussion groups there has been a recent rash of people complaining about receiving endorsement requests from people they don’t know, inappropriate job forwarding requests that aren’t really about jobs, and unwelcome profile updates. I have a simple solution for this:
Don’t connect with people you don’t know!
LinkedIn makes it abundantly clear that the [...]
LinkedIn is featured today on NPR Morning Edition:
Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting
There’s a transcript as well as a link to listen (sorry - I couldn’t figure out the direct link to an MP3). Notable quote:
“Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting — ever.”
- Osram Sylvania recruiter Maureen Crawford-Hentz
Download the MP3
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In the latest Venture Voice show, Reid Hoffman tells the story of why and how he founded LinkedIn and discusses the business model and some of the challenges he’s faced. He also goes quite in-depth into some of the design principles and networking philosophy behind LinkedIn.
The whole show is about [...]
In followup to Laura Levitan’s change in strategy post, recruiter and internet entrepreneur Jon Williamson had some confessions of his own on LinkedInnovators (posted with permission):
I’m going to toss in some observations (which, since I’m a “notorious” open networker, may surprise a few members here).