Wordless Wednesday - Cat-5
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Archive for April, 2008
Wordless Wednesday - Heard It Through the Grapevine
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Image by tamaphi via Flickr
Survey - LinkedIn Community Evangelism, One Year Later
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008LinkedIn launched their blog in April 2007, shortly after hiring Mario Sundar as Community Evangelist. I know there are probably almost as many different opinions about what LinkedIn ought to be doing with regard to community outreach as there are LinkedIn users. So I thought I’d see what Mario has to say about the [...]
Wordless Wednesday - Social Networking
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Image by .hj barraza via Flickr
How My Blog Turbo Powers My LinkedIn Connections
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 This week we’re having some fun in the b5media Business Channel doing a “blog scramble”, with everyone doing guest posts on another blog in the channel. My guest blogger is the inimitable Liz Strauss of Successful Blog, explaining how a well-done blog can enhance your network.
How My Blog Turbo Powers My LinkedIn Connections
a guest [...]
Of Baked Potatoes and Corporate Branding
Monday, April 14th, 2008 My favorite LinkedIn-related quote of the past few weeks is from Erik Dafforn at ClickZ, who asks, “When does social media matter in SEM?“:
LinkedIn has been a workhorse of social networking sites, sort of a baked potato to FaceBook’s bag of Skittles. People likely spend less time per visit on LinkedIn than they do [...]
More Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Over the past few weeks I’ve been collecting some more great ideas from the blogosphere to add to my collection of 100+ Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn. Here are the recent additions:
Warm Calling via LinkedIn - Alex Iskold
As part of his excellent “Guide to Business Development 2.0″, Alex says that cold calling is dead:
LinkedIn [...]
Five Ways Authors Can Profit from LinkedIn
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 The following article came up a couple of times in my Google Alerts in the past few weeks, and I thought it was truly excellent. The author gives free reprint permission, so I thought rather than link to it, I’d just provide it directly here.
By the way, I’ve used LinkedIn for several of these [...]
Blogger Appreciation Day April 14
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Problogger’s Darren Rowse has declared Monday, April 14, Blogger Appreciation Day, saying:
I’ve been chatting with a few bloggers of late who’ve been feeling a little down in the dumps about their blogging - so perhaps everyone could do with a little lift.
Lets spend today doing a few random acts of kindness and encouragement for [...]
The Joys of LinkedIn Evangelism
Friday, April 11th, 2008Sean Nelson at the Got LinkedIn blog came across my Bitstrips review and decided to check it out. Here’s one of his first efforts (hilarious):
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Ever feel like that when telling your friends and colleagues about LinkedIn?
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03/07/09 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
I’m really excited about creating this program – The Project Solvers and I have developed a workshop on Thursday July 16th for project teams and managers. Besides the usual questions about how to use LinkedIn, we’ll show p..LinkedIn Jobs - want to work at LinkedIn?
03/07/09 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
You can learn a lot about a company by the jobs posted… whether on their own website or on a job board. Here are some open jobs at LinkedIn that I find interesting… what does this tell you about what direction LinkedIn is head..Create a LinkedIn Profile in Minutes?
01/07/09 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I just saw a link to this page from the LinkedIn twitter feed: Create a complete profile in minutes . It says you can upload your resume and have your LinkedIn Profile up with just four clicks. I like the idea of simplicity, however, I st..LinkedIn Book at a Presentation
30/06/09 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
Back in February my publisher booked a presentation for me in Silicon Valley and snapped this picture. I think we had about 80 people in this very small room - props to the 20 or so who were standing during the entire presentation (somethi..Replying to LinkedIn Email is Hazardous to Your Relationships!
28/06/09 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Someone sent you this terrific LinkedIn message – and you responded in great detail to this wonderful opportunity, but it’s gone nowhere – why? Later on you met up with them in-person at a networking event and asked about ..Dreams do come true despite the layoff notice!
25/06/09 The LinkedIn Blog
[ Ed. note : This is a guest blog post from Ron Lapedis, Principal at Seacliff Partners and describes his journey from being laid off to becoming an entrepreneur with some help from his LinkedIn network] I am an entrepreneur who was always..LinkedIn Gets a New Boss
25/06/09 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
Yesterday LinkedIn announced its new President, Jeff Weiner. You can read all about it on TechCrunch's post: Changing Of The Guard: Jeff Weiner Takes CEO Spot At LinkedIn . I don't really know Reid (although we've exchanged a couple of me..Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed…
25/06/09 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
A recent commenter on my “Someone’s Been Sitting In My Chair” article mentioned that they like to check into the people that viewers of a particular profile have also viewed. (Thanks Wil!-) My first reaction and reply back..New LinkedIn CEO: Jeff Weiner has updated his profile
24/06/09 The LinkedIn Blog
Jeff Weiner has updated his profile from President to CEO of LinkedIn. Six months ago, Jeff started at LinkedIn running our day-to-day operations as President of the company. During that time we've achieved record operating and financial r..How to overcome the financial challenge of professional networking
23/06/09 The LinkedIn Blog
[ Ed. note : This is a guest post by Dawn Jordan , former operations vice president at Bank of America, whose job was eliminated last year. Also, check out Dawn's blog series on the Wall Street Journal where she describes her quest for a j..
