Linked Intelligence

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
Venture Voice RSS feed
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).

It seems that some of the LinkedIn users who at one time had a “loose linking” policy are having a change of heart. In MLPF, Laura Levitan, a Senior VP at word-of-mouth marketing research and consulting firm Keller Fay, and #40 on the list of users with the most connections on LinkedIn (interestingly, one of [...]

Jame Healy is Linked In
Jame shows that a lot of people still just don’t get it:
Its funny the questions people ask when your LinkedIn profile goes from 6 contacts to 160 contacts in five days…
“Are you leaving Visiphor?”
“Did you get fired?”
“Are you bored?”
No, he just actually started using it.

This story is a couple of months old, but I just came across it and thought it was pretty cool, so…
Back in August, Sun Microsystems went through a restructuring in which it laid off about 1,000 workers. As Sun Java evangelist Pratibha Malhotra wrote in his blog, LinkedIn was one of the essential tools that [...]