Archive for July, 2007

Gender Differences in Networking - Live Call Tuesday, July 24

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

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 [...]

Communicating with Your Connections - Spam or Networking?

Friday, July 20th, 2007

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 [...]

Nothing But Your Name

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

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 [...]

LinkedIn Answers About Using LinkedIn

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

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…?” [...]

Sending Batch LinkedIn Invitations - What to Do Once You’ve Uploaded Your Contacts

Monday, July 9th, 2007

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 [...]

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