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Do as I Say, Not as I Do

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A week or so ago my wife and I woke up at 1AM to the sound of a seal coming from my son’s room. For those of you with children, you may have experienced the joy of Croup. Croup is simply a virus that causes swelling in the throat, making it hard to breathe. My wife, the more detail oriented spouse, took my son to the emergency room and I stayed home with my two daughters.

Since I didn’t want to go back to sleep until they were home and I knew all was fine, I decided to catch up on adding some blog posts. Writing at 2 AM in the morning is not something I necessarily recommend.

As Membership Grows, Participation Lags Behind

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LinkedIn has seen significant growth over the last year and the numbers keep climbing.  As of last week there were over 25 million members.  That’s an impressive number even if it does trail Facebook (50 million plus) and MySpace (65 million plus).  Being a business networking site, it’s likely to not reach the saturation of […]

Service Providers Takes a Back Seat

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LinkedIn has four main featured sections on the site.  Up until recently it was People, Jobs, Answers and Service Providers.  In a recent update LinkedIn Service Providers was replaced by Companies.  The Service Providers content is now within the Companies section. Service Providers was probably the least utilized of the four main sections and if […]

No Thanks the Right Way

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One of the ways that I use LinkedIn is to connect with people in my local Chamber. Many of the meetings have anywhere from 45 to 70 people. It’s simply imposible to meet everyone.

I assume that most people attending have the same goal as me…to meet and network with as many people as possible. So after each meeting I send a LinkedIn invitation to those that I am not connected to. I’ve found that most often this connection (where I don’t personally know the person and have not had a prior conversation with) usually leads to a conversation at the next event. In fact I make it a point to introduce myself personally at the next meeting. LinkedIn can be a great ice-breaker.

Yesterday I sent out about 6 invitations to people that attended the same event yesterday morning. Two people chose to not connect, but it’s how they chose to not connect that impressed me.

LinkedIn Simplified

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I woke up, work got crazy, and the next thing I new it had been three weeks since I wrote a post.  During this time LinkedIn released a quick tutorial produced by Common Craft.  IF you’ve never visited their site I would recommend that you do. They have created a style of explaining ideas that simplifies any subject […]

Another day, Another Domain Name

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A couple of weeks ago I talked with Vincent Wright who previously ran the MyPowerLinkedIn forum. He related that after years of evangelizing for LinkedIn he was asked to remove the reference to LinkedIn due to trademark infringement. At that point, I assumed that as a little fish the gotlinkedin.com domain was living on borrowed time.