Linked Intelligence

Since I don’t live in Silicon Valley and don’t attend a lot of tech conferences, I haven’t previously had a chance to meet any of the people at LinkedIn in person. But I attended SXSW a couple of weeks ago and had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ganz (right), Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn, [...]

Quote of the day, from Jay Solo on Twitter:
I find it fascinating to look at Joe Random LinkedIn of Twiitterites and find 8-way 3rd degree linkage through wildly disparate connections.
Are you on Twitter? I’d only just sort of tested the waters before, but after this weekend at SXSW, I’m hooked. At the moment it’s [...]

Earlier today I wrote about the LinkedIn Mobile announcement, but I have to confess that I’m not a big mobile app user myself. I use my cell phone for one thing and one thing only — voice conversation, and generally as little of that as possible.
So I asked my business partner and coauthor Jay [...]

Seems my 25-minute interview at the Electronic Retailing Association annual conference last November has made its way to YouTube:

I cover a lot of ground — the state of social media and social networking, internet radio, working for b5media and About.com, and more. If we haven’t gotten to meet face-to-face and you ever wondered what I [...]

Educational Value of Social Media
Adam Metz presents the value proposition for social media for educators and some tips for how early adopters can “sell it” to their team. Interesting factoid regarding LinkedIn:
“Education management is one of the top five fastest growing segments on our network,” said LinkedIn’s director of corporate communications, Kay Luo. The [...]

Entrepreneurs Need Both LinkedIn and Facebook
In the sea of ongoing debate as to which is “better”, LinkedIn or Facebook, one of my favorite business bloggers, Anita Campbell, has the best, most balanced analysis of the two systems that I’ve seen. Her conclusion:
I can see value in both Facebook and LinkedIn. Facebook seems suited for furthering [...]

While much has been written about how important it is now for job seekers to have a good, solid web presence, particularly in social media.
But what about employers?
In his recent article, Job Hunting in ‘08, Matt Kinsman suggests:
It cuts both ways—not only should potential employers be considering your online presence, you should evaluate theirs, [...]

I gave a presentation for ERE Media Tuesday entitled “Professional Networking – Beyond Sourcing”, which focused on the many ways that recruiters can use professional networking sites to support their business and their own career, not just for sourcing candidates. The way I see it, any hack can figure out how to type a [...]

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My long-time (well, at least in internet terms) friend Lee LeFever has created a really clever, entertaining video that explains online social networking (a la LinkedIn) in plain English. Enjoy!
I found it really interesting that he used the same roadmap analogy I have used to describe LinkedIn and the importance of having real [...]