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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.

Can You Change the Order of Your Current Positions on LinkedIn?

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Most of my posts tend to be long topical posts. This means that lately I’m writing a new post about every two weeks. I’ve decided to try and post more frequently so I will be adding tips and questions that I receive into mini-posts. I’ll still write the longer post, but hopefully this will increase […]

LinkedIn Part 6: A Stage to Engage Your Audience

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In the business world you often don’t get to practice your performance. Impressions made, often can only be changed with a lot of time and extra work. The time to practice and prepare is before you encounter your audience.

On LinkedIn your audience includes existing and potential:

1. Connections
2. Alliance partners
3. Clients
4. Coworkers
5. Business Partners

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.

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 […]

200 Connections…More Width than Depth?

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At some point in the next week I will pass 200 connections. There was a time when I couldn’t imagine having more than 100 connections much less 200. Many of these people I know and some are people that I crossed paths with at the chamber and would like to get to know.

The separation is simply a matter of have I sat down with each person for an hour or not. LinkedIn makes it so easy to connect that we often mistake the number of connections we have (the width) with having an effective network (the depth). It’s important to strive for both, but it will take more work to create depth in your relationships.