Linked Intelligence

I don’t know when they added this feature*, but it’s pretty cool. LinkedIn has a built-in function to allow you to save a profile to PDF. The resulting PDF is very clean — no graphics, not hyperlinks, full-width text. Here’s mine as an example.

Last week I announced the start of Extreme LinkedIn Profile Makeover, and the response was overwhelming. 13 people have already signed up, so it’s obvious I’m going to have to do it a little more frequently than monthly, as I had originally planned.
I also want to make clear that I hope this will become a [...]

I had a reader write to me asking how to join the Forbes.com Entrepreneurs LinkedIn Group (of which I’m a member). So, being the helpful guy I am, I went to go look it up to send it to him. Imagine my surprise when I couldn’t find it!

The MyLinkedInPowerForum Yahoo! Group, run by friend Vincent Wright, has been selected for the Best of Yahoo! Groups page. Now I’m not sure how often they rotate this page, but I think it’s weekly. Still, out of approximately 7 million Yahoo Groups, it’s quite an honor, and well deserved.
Vincent works his tail off on MLPF [...]

I’ve long been a fan of blog carnivals, and while I have to readily admit to being a little less consistent about participating in them than I’d like to be, I can attest to the fact that doing so is one of the very best ways to reach new readers and build links to your [...]

DeWitt Clinton reports on his blog about an accidental recruiting spam from LinkedIn. Apparently LinkedIn sent out an undisclosed number of invitations to software developers and possibly anyone who works or worked at a couple of large tech companies, including Google. The letters all began with the following (see the full message on DeWitt’s blog):
Dear [...]

Once a month, the b5media business channel holds a “theme day”, in which our business bloggers contribute posts around a particular theme. Besides being an enormous amount of fun for us and a good exercise in thinking outside the box, it’s also a fun way for you to learn about some of our other business [...]

This month’s theme for the b5media business channel is “being august“. Dictionary.com defines “august” as “inspiring reverence or admiration”. To me, being august is all about character.
Character isn’t just what you are, it’s what you do. There is little that rings more hollow than for someone to say, in one form or another, that they [...]

There are a lot of blogging memes out there. Many of them are completely inappropriate for a business blog (do you really care what kind of superhero my blog is?). One that I really like, though, is blogtipping, which was started in 2006 by Easton Ellsworth.
It’s a pretty simple concept: on the first of each [...]

UPDATE: This is no longer being offered. I leave the message in tact because I don’t believe in creating broken links.
In the 4+ years that I’ve been using LinkedIn, one thing I have learned for sure — one thing that crosses all philosophical approaches to using LinkedIn — is the value of a good profile. [...]