Over the last year I’ve written a book about LinkedIn, written over 70 blog posts, presented numerous talks on LinkedIn, created a tool to grade your profile and presence on LinkedIn, and used LinkedIn to enhance my networking and grow my business. If I am to be considered a LinkedIn expert, I’m not your typical expert.
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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 […]
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 […]