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 [...]
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Letters of Recommendation and LinkedIn Recommendations
06/10/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
Recently I started writing for Peter Newfield's blog, Career Resumes . This morning I wrote a response to a question about how to get letters of recommendation when you are in a covert job search. What a great question! You don't wan..
LinkedIn For Competitive Intelligence
05/10/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
LinkedIn insiders know that you can use the site's information for more than job, sales, and partnering leads - you can find out what others are up to as well. I'd like to share an article I found where a reporter does just that. Apple deve..
LinkedIn's Customer Support Site and the Learning Center
03/10/08 The LinkedIn Blog
I often run into people who say “I have a profile, but I don’t know what to do next”. The answer may only be a click away. Here are my top three suggestions to guide you to "next:": 1. Create a robust profile: You’ve entered ..
LinkedIn shuttle throws employees' privacy under the bus
02/10/08 Valleywag: Linkedin
A correction on our previous post about LinkedIn's financial woes : Contrary to our tipster's assertions, plenty of LinkedIn employees use the company-provided shuttle bus from San Francisco to Mountain View. The bus even has its own Twitt..
Linkedin: "Where the PR is hot but the business is not"
01/10/08 Valleywag: Linkedin
A LinkedIn tipster tells us that even as the all-business social network raised $53 million from Bain Capital and other investors in June, at a $1 billion valuation, it sought to pull in another $25 million from Goldman Sachs and failed. M..
LinkedIn Statistics - And Ties To The Credit Crunch
01/10/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
The Guardian is reporting that those within the financial industry are increasingly LinkedIn. It seems anti-climactic to think that investment bankers are joining, updating their profiles, and connecting more right now than ever before - bu..
Second Edition of THE BOOK (status and excellent news)
30/09/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I'm on LinkedIn — Now What??? is ready for a second edition. Many of you have seen my questions on MVPF , or on LinkedIn, asking for input. I want to give you a quick status update, but first, some excellent news! I talked with m..
LinkedIn pictures in Yahoo search results
29/09/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I heard about this on MVPF a couple of weeks ago, but wasn't able to actually see it for myself. Until recently. I did a search on LinkedIn ________ (I can't remember what it was), and check out what I found on the third page: That ima..
LinkedIn “email”
28/09/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Every so often, someone asks about their “LinkedIn email”… And I guess that if you looked at it as such, it is a crude sort of platform - but I'm not particularly impressed with it. The best part about it is that you can..
LinkedIn Groups You Might Like
26/09/08 The LinkedIn Blog
The LinkedIn Analytics team has been hard at work finding new ways to help you leverage your network and connect you to resources that can enhance your career. Some of our other features include People You May Know and Who's Viewed My Prof..
