Sean Nelson

Every other Wednesday I attend the North Fulton Leads Alliance.  It’s been great to recognize people that I am connected to through LinkedIn, and usually anywhere from 25 to 40% of the people there are connected to me. There are a lot of people though who may have heard of LinkedIn, but either have not […]

Recommendations are a pretty powerful thing within LinkedIn. You can’t write your own, and you can’t edit what someone has submitted for you. You can just decided whether you want to show a recommendation or not. Because of this, each recommendation carries some weight. Read the full story This article is written by Jason Alba, author […]

When it comes to connecting through LinkedIn you will encounter different perspectives on connecting. 1.  LIONs:  These are folks that believe in having as many connections as possible, regardless of how well they know those in their network.  They will typically accept an invitation from anyone.  You can recognize them by their number of connections […]

Byron Lewis is on a roll.  I know Byron through networking and we’ve talked about LinkedIn.  You have to understand that if it involves technology, Byron is usually on the ball.  While he was familiar with LinkedIn he had not really jumped on the bandwagon. Well about a week ago Byron decided to take the jump […]

I’m closing in on a month since I decided to find relevance in LinkedIn.  I have increased my connections to 109, which is much better than my goal of 100 by February 1st.  I still have about 64 invitations outstanding, so I will be personally contacting these folks to talk about connecting. Today’s topic is […]

Over the last month I’ve focused on building my connections.  A natural place to start was with the GNFCC (North Fulton Chamber).  Over the past year I have scanned every card into Card Scan to build a list of people participating in the chamber.  Some of these people I’ve met and some we’ve just crossed […]