Archive for July, 2007

Making the Most of Website Links on Your LinkedIn Profile

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

When LinkedIn first launched, there was nowhere to put links to any of your web sites in your profile. Then they added the ability for a single link, and later three. Now, they not only allow you to have three links, you can also make the text for those links whatever you want, rather than [...]

Liz Strauss Thinks I’m an SOB

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Uber-blogger and corporate blogging consultant Liz Strauss of Successful-Blog and Liz Strauss.com has named Linked Intelligence as one of this week’s SOBs (Successful and Outstanding Bloggers).
Now, anyone can hand out an award, but I think what really resonated with me about this is Liz’s explanation of what this award is all about:
…for extending the [...]

Who’s Looking at Your LinkedIn Recommendations?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Vincent Wright posted on MLPF about what may be a LinkedIn first (first time I’ve ever seen it, that’s for sure): a publication actually quoting a LinkedIn recommendation.
In a recent interview with Ning CEO and Co-founder Gina Bianchini, Folksonomy.org opened the interview with:
Marc Andreessen commented on LinkedIn that he was impressed with your strategic thinking.
That [...]

LinkedIn Toolbar Vulnerability Alert

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Security researchers (some would say hackers - more on that below) have discovered a vulnerability in LinkedIn Internet Explorer Toolbar, which can be exploited to execute malicious code on a user’s system. Until such time as LinkedIn releases an update, users of the toolbar are advised to disable or uninstall it. This does not affect [...]

The $5,000 Profile Update

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

I was talking with my friend Jefre Outlaw this week (he was trying to help me help my wife find host homes for several foreign exchange students with an urgent need — thanks, Jefre and all the others who helped), and he was telling me a great LinkedIn anecdote about the importance of keeping your [...]