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LinkedIn Part 7: Research Potential Partners and Alliances

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our world has expanded. Five years ago it evolved around the places you networked and the people you interacted with in non-work situations. LinkedIn changed the rules.

LinkedIn wasn’t the first social networking site, but it was the first to expand business connections in a large enough way to be meaningful. I have a Facebook account and it has been great to connect with old friends from college. I have a Plaxo account, and I love that it includes contact details, but not enough people are really using it.

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 […]

LinkedIn Presence Score Tool…Compare Youself to Others

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The Presence tool allows you to put a numeric score to how effective you have been in creating your profile, building connections, giving and receiving recommendations and participating in LinkedIn Answers.  It also records your score and returns an average score based on people that have previously rated themselves.  Now you can see how effective you […]

Book Update

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While I hoped to have everything completed by April 30th, the editing process is taking longer than expected.  Part of it is that I am blind when I read it.  I’ve looked at every page so many times that the obvious errors don’t even register.  Someone else has graciously taken over the editing process and […]

LinkedOut

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Last Friday was the North Fulton Chamber expo and as the volunteer coordinator, about 80% of my time was spent doing that as opposed to actually working.  I’m catching up so I will take the short cut of posting the following LinkedOut cartoons instead of an actual post.  Hope you enjoy. ***If you cant read the cartoon text, […]