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:
It seems that some of the LinkedIn users who at one time had a “loose linking” policy are having a change of heart. In MLPF, Laura Levitan, a Senior VP at word-of-mouth marketing research and consulting firm Keller Fay, and #40 on the list of users with the most connections on LinkedIn (interestingly, one of [...]
Jame Healy is Linked In
Jame shows that a lot of people still just don’t get it:
Its funny the questions people ask when your LinkedIn profile goes from 6 contacts to 160 contacts in five days…
“Are you leaving Visiphor?”
“Did you get fired?”
“Are you bored?”
No, he just actually started using it.
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Customize Your Correspondence For More Success
12/10/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
One of my readers - Tom - shared an interesting statistic with me: the response rate when he sends out InMail. You see Tom prospects with the help of LinkedIn and has experimented with different approach styles. It's a fascinating look at j..
LinkedIn Groups learns to share
09/10/08 The LinkedIn Blog
In July this year, we announced LinkedIn Groups' searchable directory to make it easier for you to find the groups you'll derive the most benefit from. In August, we turned on the discussions feature and just last month Monica Rogati blogg..
A cleaner look for your LinkedIn Profile
09/10/08 The LinkedIn Blog
As many of you know, the Profile page is one of the most important pages on LinkedIn. It is how you present your professional background and identity to other LinkedIn members and it is what you look at first when you consider contacting o..
Reconnecting with an old client yields a $1M contract - Darrel Rhea, Cheskin
09/10/08 The LinkedIn Blog
Darrel Rhea was a LinkedIn user who wasn't sure how to leverage his professional network on LinkedIn effectively. A quick 10 minutes that he spent importing his Outlook contacts to LinkedIn yielded a chance encounter with a former client. ..
Nuts About Southwest, But Not Gary Kelly's Profile
09/10/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I am nuts about Southwest airlines. I ALWAYS want to fly Southwest… the price is always right, I like their culture, their in-flight magazine, their sense of humor… I like it all. Today I went to their blog and noticed at the..
NYTimes.com: LinkedIn status sparks 'accidental' global enterprise
09/10/08 The LinkedIn Blog
Yesterday on the Shifting Careers blog over at The New York Times , Marci Alboher wrote up a great account of an international LinkedIn success story. Dutch tech consultant Henk van Ess was frustrated with his 3G iPhone's battery life, so ..
Becoming an Expert In LinkedIn
08/10/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
Recently I got my hand slapped by a LinkedIn connection who was upset about a question I asked on LinkedIn. I asked what the beef was, thinking that person thought I was self-promoting, or something like that. No, it wasn't that…..
Nasdaq tumble stops LinkedIn stock sale plan
06/10/08 Valleywag: Linkedin
Conventional Valley wisdom: The chaos in the public stock markets won't affect private companies, right? Wrong. In August, LinkedIn had set plans to let employees sell some of their shares to investors . Interest in the company had been ke..
Letters of Recommendation and LinkedIn Recommendations
06/10/08 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
Recently I started writing for Peter Newfield's blog, Career Resumes . This morning I wrote a response to a question about how to get letters of recommendation when you are in a covert job search. What a great question! You don't wan..
LinkedIn For Competitive Intelligence
05/10/08 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
LinkedIn insiders know that you can use the site's information for more than job, sales, and partnering leads - you can find out what others are up to as well. I'd like to share an article I found where a reporter does just that. Apple deve..
