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 [...]
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Letters of Recommendation and LinkedIn Recommendations
06/10/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
Recently I started writing for Peter Newfield's blog, Career Resumes . This morning I wrote a response to a question about how to get letters of recommendation when you are in a covert job search. What a great question! You don't wan..
LinkedIn For Competitive Intelligence
05/10/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
LinkedIn insiders know that you can use the site's information for more than job, sales, and partnering leads - you can find out what others are up to as well. I'd like to share an article I found where a reporter does just that. Apple deve..
LinkedIn's Customer Support Site and the Learning Center
03/10/08 The LinkedIn Blog
I often run into people who say “I have a profile, but I don’t know what to do next”. The answer may only be a click away. Here are my top three suggestions to guide you to "next:": 1. Create a robust profile: You’ve entered ..
LinkedIn shuttle throws employees' privacy under the bus
02/10/08 Valleywag: Linkedin
A correction on our previous post about LinkedIn's financial woes : Contrary to our tipster's assertions, plenty of LinkedIn employees use the company-provided shuttle bus from San Francisco to Mountain View. The bus even has its own Twitt..
Linkedin: "Where the PR is hot but the business is not"
01/10/08 Valleywag: Linkedin
A LinkedIn tipster tells us that even as the all-business social network raised $53 million from Bain Capital and other investors in June, at a $1 billion valuation, it sought to pull in another $25 million from Goldman Sachs and failed. M..
LinkedIn Statistics - And Ties To The Credit Crunch
01/10/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
The Guardian is reporting that those within the financial industry are increasingly LinkedIn. It seems anti-climactic to think that investment bankers are joining, updating their profiles, and connecting more right now than ever before - bu..
Second Edition of THE BOOK (status and excellent news)
30/09/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I'm on LinkedIn — Now What??? is ready for a second edition. Many of you have seen my questions on MVPF , or on LinkedIn, asking for input. I want to give you a quick status update, but first, some excellent news! I talked with m..
LinkedIn pictures in Yahoo search results
29/09/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I heard about this on MVPF a couple of weeks ago, but wasn't able to actually see it for myself. Until recently. I did a search on LinkedIn ________ (I can't remember what it was), and check out what I found on the third page: That ima..
LinkedIn “email”
28/09/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Every so often, someone asks about their “LinkedIn email”… And I guess that if you looked at it as such, it is a crude sort of platform - but I'm not particularly impressed with it. The best part about it is that you can..
LinkedIn Groups You Might Like
26/09/08 The LinkedIn Blog
The LinkedIn Analytics team has been hard at work finding new ways to help you leverage your network and connect you to resources that can enhance your career. Some of our other features include People You May Know and Who's Viewed My Prof..
