Archive for June, 2007

Free Webinar - Using LinkedIn to Sell More, Faster and with Less Effort

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

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 [...]

Networking for Nerds - HP.com Chief Architect on Using LinkedIn

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

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 [...]

LinkedIn API Plans to Compete with Facebook

Monday, June 25th, 2007

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 [...]

LinkedIn Connections 6-20-2007

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

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 [...]

Using LinkedIn to Make the Sale

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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 [...]