Linked Intelligence

Although LinkedIn has become best known for recruiting and job search, angel and venture funding has more quietly been one of the most successful applications of LinkedIn. Even knowing that, in reading this story about how web collaboration startup Goshido used LinkedIn to raise capital I was amazed at just how strong the results [...]

I saw this from Jon Bailey (Twitter – LinkedIn) on Twitter this morning:

Welcome to another installment of my occasional roundup of LinkedIn-related blog posts, articles and conversations:
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Gianpolo Carraro is using LinkedIn to stay connected with his blog readers:
I realized that a lot of the people I would like to connect with are the readers of my blog. The reason is very simple, over [...]

Bruce Hill tells the story of how he used LinkedIn to build real, valuable relationships in another continent. I also found Bruce’s story particularly fascinating because it echoes one of the ideas we introduced in The Virtual Handshake, which is that our collective experience with internet dating has laid the groundwork in our collective [...]

I was talking with my friend Jefre Outlaw this week (he was trying to help me help my wife find host homes for several foreign exchange students with an urgent need — thanks, Jefre and all the others who helped), and he was telling me a great LinkedIn anecdote about the importance of keeping your [...]

Self-professed uber-nerd Pete Johnson is Chief Architect of HP.com and runs a personal blog called Nerd Guru. I met Pete a couple of months ago when he was in Austin, introduced via Jason Alba, and gave him a copy of The Virtual Handshake. Pete read it on the airplane on his way home and has [...]

Here’s another smart way to use LinkedIn. On MyLinkedInPowerForum, Stan Relihan recently told the story of how he used LinkedIn to find a celebrity guest for his podcast:

My uncle once told me, “If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is its father.” So when a friend of mine from Europe contacted me to help him fill out his upcoming business trip to Los Angeles, of course I wanted to help, but I was thinking how I could go about the task [...]

Marc Freedman is one of those people who seems to have figured out how to make a network of 17,000+ contacts on LinkedIn actually workable. While I normally tend to discourage building a huge network by linking to people you don’t know, there are a few people for whom I can see that as a [...]

Jason Calacanis (Weblogs, Inc. founder and now SVP of AOL in charge of the Netscape product) says in his blog that LinkedIn, which was once an “annoying distraction” has now become for him an “essential business tool”. He recounts the story of posting a job recently via LinkedIn: