Archive for the 'Success Stories' Category

LinkedIn Connections 1-1-2008

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Welcome to another installment of my occasional roundup of LinkedIn-related blog posts, articles and conversations:
FYI: my LinkedIn contact
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 [...]

Building Real Relationships Globally on LinkedIn

Monday, December 31st, 2007

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 [...]

The $5,000 Profile Update

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

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 [...]

Networking for Nerds - HP.com Chief Architect on Using LinkedIn

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

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 [...]

Using LinkedIn to Find Celebrity Guests

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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: