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 […]
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Service Providers Takes a Back Seat
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
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
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
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.
LinkedIn Blog–Not User Friendly
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
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)
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
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!
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 […]