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LinkedIn Blog–Not User Friendly

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I try to read as many LinkedIn blogs each week. It’s getting harder as some of the best are disapearing. My favorite, LinkedIntelligence stopped posting on a regular basis about a month ago. MyPowerLinkedIn forum no longer covers linked in the same, as it was asked to stop using the word LinkedIn as part of the name. These are sites that talked and evangelized LinkedIn well before it was cool to the masses.

There are still a few that are worth reading…Imonlinkedinnowwhat, The Executives Guide to LinkedIn, The LinkedIn User’s Manual, and of course LinkedIn’s own blog.

LinkedIn Recommendations…Fact or Fiction

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Jason Alba recently wrote a post talking about recommendations and made some good points. You can read his full post by clicking here. Having read his post I started looking at recommendations in the Service Providers section (Service Providers used to be a main category, but is now listed under Companies). The most important thing […]

The Chicken (Chamber) or the Egg (LinkedIn)

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I’ve stated often that LinkedIn is simply a tool that you can use to enhance your networking and grow your business, but alone it is simply an interesting application. By itself you can definitely conduct a successful job search. You can gain insightful information through the Answers section. You can even build credibility through generating […]

How Effective is Your LinkedIn Presence

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It’s been a couple of weeks since I released the Linkerator.  The Linkerator let’s you grade your presence on LinkedIn in a numerical manner.  The scoring goes from 0 to 100 and takes about 30 seconds to complete. As of today the average score is 49.3. (If you’re wondering, my score which is not the […]

Vincent Wright is an Optimistic Dude!

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A couple of weeks ago I connected with Chris Rollyson who writes the Executives Guide to LinkedIn and we had a phone conversation about what we were both doing with LinkedIn.  Chris then emailed me to introduce me to Vincent Wright, saying we had to connect.  I sat on the email for about a week […]

We Only Just Begun…

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It seems like only weeks ago (and it was) that I moved the blog to the gotlinkedin.com domain.  Well it appears we will be moving once again.  My original thought was that since this blog is about LinkedIn that it just made sense to include the word LinkedIn in the title.  This site is designed […]