Linked Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Do men and women network differently? I think we all intuitively know that there’s some truth to this, but what are the facts? What can men and women learn from each other to improve their networking skills, as well as how to relate to each other better in a business context?
On Tuesday, July 24, 1pm [...]

Here’s the question — is it ethical to add your LinkedIn connections to your newsletter list, or at the very least, a list of people you routinely contact? Where are the boundaries?
On the one hand, adding people to a “mailing list” without their express consent is spamming. On the other hand, LinkedIn is supposed to [...]

It has become a fairly common practice, primarily among “open linkers”, it seems, to put all kinds of stuff in the name field of their LinkedIn profiles, including:

E-mail addresses (intended to bypass LinkedIn’s requirement of knowing it in order to connect)
LION (intended to indicate the person is a Linked In Open Networker and generally receptive [...]

I’m a big fan of LinkedIn Answers. I’ve used it a couple of times recently to get answers to questions that would have taken me hours of research on my own. One of the most popular categories is the Using LinkedIn category.
As one might imagine, you’ll find a pretty large number of “How do I…?” [...]

One of my LinkedIn connections, Andy Birol of Birol Growth Consulting, recently wrote me for some advice about using LinkedIn. Andy has been using LinkedIn for a while and has about 100 connections, but feels like he hasn’t really explored its full potential. He finally uploaded his entire a larger part of his contact database [...]