Comments on: "If You Don't Want To Connect" and Other Lame Statements on LinkedIn http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2008/09/23/if-you-dont-want-to-connect-and-other-lame-statements-on-linkedin/ the blog behind the book Mon, 07 May 2012 23:10:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lisa Hendrickson http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2008/09/23/if-you-dont-want-to-connect-and-other-lame-statements-on-linkedin/#comment-915 Lisa Hendrickson Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:15:38 +0000 http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/?p=149#comment-915 From what I have seen, it's from people who are in the huge networking groups, (to stay unnamed) and they out to score large numbers of connections. I got handslapped once when I was doing invitations inappropriately, but accidently. I didn't know the procedure:) Now I do. And I don't get many IDK at this point. From what I have seen, it’s from people who are in the huge networking groups, (to stay unnamed) and they out to score large numbers of connections.

I got handslapped once when I was doing invitations inappropriately, but accidently. I didn’t know the procedure:)

Now I do. And I don’t get many IDK at this point.

]]> By: Jason Alba http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2008/09/23/if-you-dont-want-to-connect-and-other-lame-statements-on-linkedin/#comment-914 Jason Alba Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:05:26 +0000 http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/?p=149#comment-914 Teena, it is kind of cocky, I agree. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I have seen this trend pick up in the last couple of months, though. If you (I say that generically) take the time to customize the invitation, why don't you take out the canned message and put something more personal in, other than "please don't IDK me, even though I won't remind you why you know me, or tell you why we should connect :s" Also, a recent post you wrote on your blog is titled <a href="http://purple4mee.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-your-socks-say-about-you.html" rel="nofollow">What your socks say about you</a>. Let's take that idea to this issue, and ask "what your LinkedIn invitation says about you." Maybe that's what I should have written, instead. Teena, it is kind of cocky, I agree. Maybe I’m just in a bad mood. I have seen this trend pick up in the last couple of months, though. If you (I say that generically) take the time to customize the invitation, why don’t you take out the canned message and put something more personal in, other than “please don’t IDK me, even though I won’t remind you why you know me, or tell you why we should connect :s”

Also, a recent post you wrote on your blog is titled What your socks say about you. Let’s take that idea to this issue, and ask “what your LinkedIn invitation says about you.” Maybe that’s what I should have written, instead.

]]> By: Teena in Toronto http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2008/09/23/if-you-dont-want-to-connect-and-other-lame-statements-on-linkedin/#comment-913 Teena in Toronto Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:25:45 +0000 http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/?p=149#comment-913 That's kind of cocky, isn't it? That’s kind of cocky, isn’t it?

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