Linked Intelligence

Earlier this week I had the pleasure to meet and chat with Larry Benet aka “The Connector”. He is the past Chairman of the Tsunami Disaster Relief Project [...]

Self-professed uber-nerd Pete Johnson is Chief Architect of HP.com and runs a personal blog called Nerd Guru. I met Pete a couple of months ago when he was in Austin, introduced via Jason Alba, and gave him a copy of The Virtual Handshake. Pete read it on the airplane on his way home and has [...]

Dan Farber at ZDNet reports today that in a conversation last Friday, LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman told him that over the next 9 months, LinkedIn will be opening up to developers via a series of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).
What this means in plain English for non-techies is that LinkedIn will make it possible [...]

It seems LinkedIn is a really hot topic in the blogosphere at the moment. Here’s my irregular roundup of some of my favorite recent posts:
20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively
Web Worker Daily has compiled a list of 20 ways to use LinkedIn:

Increase freelance work.
Find your dream job.
Boost your business.
Improve your Google results.
Check references for potential [...]

Here’s yet another smart way to use LinkedIn. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 21 of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, entitled “Increase the Quality and Quantity of Information”. This, of course, is one of major value propositions of LinkedIn, which this story illustrates beautifully.
Al Chase tells how he leveraged [...]

Here’s another smart way to use LinkedIn. On MyLinkedInPowerForum, Stan Relihan recently told the story of how he used LinkedIn to find a celebrity guest for his podcast:

I’ve long been a fan of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, which first introduced me to the idea of systems thinking. A lot of the concepts I have practiced and written about for the past four years are based on the application of certain system archetypes to the area of online business networking, particularly the [...]

A couple of more smart ways to use LinkedIn from the blogosphere:
Using LinkedIn for Market Research
Weblogs, Inc. co-founder Jason Calacanis is using LinkedIn Answers as a great source for market research for his new human-edited search project, Mahalo. Jason posed the following question(s) on LinkedIn Answers:

I wrote last week about following up with inside connections in response to the following question from Chris Morton:
I applied for a job I found on Dice yesterday (sent to “jobs@…”) and have now identified about a dozen 2nd and 3rd degree contacts at that company who are in my network.
To increase my odds [...]

Time for another irregular roundup of blog posts and articles about LinkedIn from around the web.
Online networking now used by 65% of professionals
Hat tip to Community Stew for this one.
The Institute for Corporate Productivity reports that nearly 2/3 of professionals are now using social networking web sites, with LinkedIn the leader by far.
“We expected [...]