Linked Intelligence

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 [...]

The b5media business channel has been growing like crazy the past few months and is now up to 17 blogs (not counting a couple of us who haven’t “officially” joined yet). That’s enough people to do a sort of blog carnival of our own. Once a month, we do a theme day within the channel. [...]

LinkedIn fairly quickly implemented a couple of important changes to help reduce the growing flood of spam (or at least “spammy”) posts in their new Answers feature. The first, and probably most important (it was by far the most popular answer when I posed the question, “What do you think is the best way to [...]

One of the beauties of LinkedIn is that it works for both passive users and highly active users and everywhere in between, and still delivers value. This series of posts is geared toward the active end of that spectrum. I’m going to lay out a plan for daily, weekly and monthly activities that can help [...]

Been a while since I did one of these, but it seems that after the funding, some good press, reports from LinkedIn of a successful 2006, and a major new feature release, lots of people are talking about LinkedIn. Here are a few of the more interesting recent bits I’ve found:

Marc Freedman is one of those people who seems to have figured out how to make a network of 17,000+ contacts on LinkedIn actually workable. While I normally tend to discourage building a huge network by linking to people you don’t know, there are a few people for whom I can see that as a [...]