Archive for the 'Using LinkedIn' Category

How My Blog Turbo Powers My LinkedIn Connections

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

This week we’re having some fun in the b5media Business Channel doing a “blog scramble”, with everyone doing guest posts on another blog in the channel. My guest blogger is the inimitable Liz Strauss of Successful Blog, explaining how a well-done blog can enhance your network.
How My Blog Turbo Powers My LinkedIn Connections
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Of Baked Potatoes and Corporate Branding

Monday, April 14th, 2008

My favorite LinkedIn-related quote of the past few weeks is from Erik Dafforn at ClickZ, who asks, “When does social media matter in SEM?“:
LinkedIn has been a workhorse of social networking sites, sort of a baked potato to FaceBook’s bag of Skittles. People likely spend less time per visit on LinkedIn than they do [...]

More Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Over the past few weeks I’ve been collecting some more great ideas from the blogosphere to add to my collection of 100+ Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn. Here are the recent additions:
Warm Calling via LinkedIn - Alex Iskold
As part of his excellent “Guide to Business Development 2.0″, Alex says that cold calling is dead:
LinkedIn [...]

Five Ways Authors Can Profit from LinkedIn

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

The following article came up a couple of times in my Google Alerts in the past few weeks, and I thought it was truly excellent. The author gives free reprint permission, so I thought rather than link to it, I’d just provide it directly here.
By the way, I’ve used LinkedIn for several of these [...]

LinkedIn Blog to Feature User Case Studies

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Ahh… this is what I’ve been waiting for! I’ve enjoyed LinkedIn’s blog so far - but this is where I think it moves from useful to compelling. Company news and feature how-to’s are great, but stories of real users really help people shift from concept to implementation.
According to their blog:
Starting this week, each [...]

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