Joel Spolsky’s Amusing Note on LinkedIn - Sad but true story of someone who had scammed Joel on eBay a few years ago inviting him to connect on LinkedIn. Hopefully you’ve never done anything like this to anyone, but even so, it’s a good reminder that you really should go through the list of contacts [...]
In December, LinkedIn announced that they were in the process of closing a $13M funding round. On Monday they announced that the funding deal has closed (On a side note - that’s a neat trick, getting two rounds of buzz about the same event). Anyway, this prompted another round of pontificating pundits debating whether LinkedIn [...]
One of the things that’s considered a big “no-no” on LinkedIn among savvy users is to invite people using one of the canned “boilerplate” invitations. Those are there as a guideline - a starting point. But for active users, seeing a boilerplate invitation is a sure sign that the person sending it has no real [...]
Due to my visibility from this blog and my participation in the various LinkedIn Yahoo Groups (which exposes your e-mail address), I typically get at least 5-10 invitations to connect on LinkedIn every week from people I don’t know. The vast majority are generic, not personalized, but even the ones that are, I decline almost [...]
Guy Kawasaki is at it again with some more great tips on using LinkedIn. This time he’s gotten together with LinkedIn’s UI designer, Mike Lin, to do an “extreme makeover” of his profile. This is by far the most useful guide I’ve seen on this topic. Every problem Mike pointed out, I’ve seen on many [...]