I know that we’d all like to think that LinkedIn is populated with people who know and trust each other, but any time you make a vehicle for communicating with several million people for free, you’re bound to have a few bad apples. It seems that a common payment transfer job scam, this particular [...]
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 [...]
One LinkedIn feature that has been the subject of some debate is the Connections Browse feature. In a nutshell, Connections Browse allows you to let your immediate connections see your list of immediate connections. LinkedIn describes it in more depth as follows:
Browsing Your Network
You can now get a better feeling for who is closest [...]
Forbes published a list this week of The Ten Most Dangerous Online Activities. Now some of these are obvious no-nos, like clicking on e-mail attachments from unknown senders (#1), or surfing gambling, porn or other dicey sites (#5). Others are questionable, like #8 - using any old Wi-Fi network, and #10 - participating in chat [...]
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Leveraging LinkedIn for Effective Projects
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..
