Lately there have been some rumors about discontent at LinkedIn. Problems with meeting financial goals set by their investors, rumors of managers throwing each other under the bus, lack of how to make LinkedIn profitable, and a host of other concerns. Could a site with 30+ million users just disappear in the blink of an eye?
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LinkedIn Part 3: Establishing Credibility
LinkedIn is a great opportunity to present yourself. You can list a summary, details of past work history, your current employment, and other pieces of information. All of this can present a picture of you but by itself doesn’t convey credibility.
LinkedIn has built in features that help you establish credibility. All you need to do is a little extra work and credibility is yours to be gained. Let’s take a look at your credibility opportunities:
LinkedIn Part 2: Enhancing Your Networking
The core of LinkedIn revolves around connecting to other business professionals, which is networking. Networking exclusively on LinkedIn, though, ignores the human element of face to face interaction. Understanding, once again that LinkedIn is a tool, how do you use it to enhance your other networking?
LinkedIn Part 1: Can LinkedIn Work For You?
If I had a penny for every time someone told me “I’m on LinkedIn but I don’t really know how to use it to use it”, I would be a rich man. There are literally millions of people with many more millions of connections yet few people have actually been able to use it to generate an economic gain.
Live on Atlanta Business Radio
During September I did a live interview with Lee Kantor and Amy Otto at Atlanta Business Radio. This is the second show that I’ve done and it also featured Teo Gracca with Net Teams. You can listen to the show by going to the following link: http://atlantabusinessradio.libsyn.com/index.php?post_year=2008&post_month=09 (scroll and you’ll see Teo’s mug shot) I […]
Other LinkedIn Resources to Read
Just to clarify…I don’t really make any money writing about LinkedIn. At least not yet. I’ve written a LinkedIn book but so far I’m about 5 months behind when I thought it would actually be published. Every couple of months delay means that I have to go back and edit it to make sure it’s […]
Two Months of Waiting and this is What You Get
Two months is a long time. But two months slips by fairly quick in blogging world. You get busy and don’t add a new post for the week and the next thing you know it’s been 3 weeks (or nine). I’ve been busy with other projects and have had to put things on hold. First […]
Checked Your LinkedIn Profile Score Lately?
If you would like to grade your linkedIn profile the following tool will do that for you. Go to http://linked101.com/review.html and see how you score relative to the average LinkedIn user.
Add Contact Information for Your Connections
I was just looking at my connections and noticed a new link that appears below each connections name…”View and Edit Details”. This is currently in beta, but it appears that you can add details such as phone number, address, email and notes to your contacts. Sounds great, right?
First let me say that I like that LinkedIn is adding functionality. The notes option could be interesting and a great way to track information to particular contacts. Now for the downside.
Do as I Say, Not as I Do
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.