Linked Intelligence

Yup, the economic news for the new year isn’t what any of us had hoped. U.S. unemployment held at just under 10%, but only because 661,000 workers have “removed themselves from the workforce”, a euphemism meaning they’ve given up looking for a job because they believe none are available. The picture’s not particularly brighter [...]

As part of Vertical Response’s Social Media Webinar Series. I’ll be presenting Opening Doors and Closing Deals on LinkedIn on Friday, December 4, at 10am PST / 1pm EST. This will be focused entirely on using LinkedIn to grow your business, not for recruiting or job search, so all you entrepreneurs and sales & marketing [...]

This Wednesday, 9/23, I’ll be conducting a 90-minute webinar on how to use social networking and social media to grow your business.
Most of my recent webinars have focused on a particular tool (e.g., LinkedIn) or a particular business function (e.g., recruiting). The primary focus of this program will be how to do more with less, [...]

Business.com is running a survey about how businesses are using social media. Survey participants get early access to the results to help benchmark social media efforts and are entered into a $2,000 drawing.
Take the survey
Disclosure: I’m the Sales & Marketing Community Manager for Work.com, Business.com’s sister site. We’ve got several good articles on LinkedIn there, [...]

Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 16) at 1pm Eastern I’ll be presenting a webinar in partnership with American Management Assocation (they published my first book, The Virtual Handshake) entitled How to Use LinkedIn to Excel in Your Current Position and Plan for Your Next.
This is not a webinar on the mechanics of how to use LinkedIn – [...]

If you’re reading this blog, odds are that you’re already somewhat familiar with LinkedIn and other social networking sites. But what I constantly get asked, even from people who have been participating in these sites for a while, is, “How do I use these to generate real business?”
It’s easy enough to set up a [...]

Entrepreneurs — looking to grow your business?
Starting this Thursday, June 5, you can learn some of the most current techniques for growing your business in the Escape 9 to 5 Teleseminar Series.
I love what the organizer, Melissa Gerdes, has to say about the series on the registration page:
Why are we doing this? It’s simple. [...]

LinkedIn 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 [...]

Yesterday, April 1, April Fool’s Day here in the U.S., I wrote a post that began with:
In a surprising move, LinkedIn announced late Monday that they will be terminating their free service, beginning May 1.
It was pure satire, and got a lot of laughs (I’m told even within LinkedIn – one Sr. Director even reposted [...]

In the process of working on The Emergence of The Relationship Economy, we had the pleasure to meet and collaborate with Cluetrain Manifesto coauthor and social media visionary Doc Searls. Besides writing a terrific foreword to our book, Doc has also been working with my business partner and coauthor Jay Deragon on several initiatives, including [...]