Archive for the ‘social networking’ Category
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
I am just about sold on doing an about.me profile. I wanted to do a critique to follow up from Tuesday's LinkedIn Profile Critique on Jeff Dibble. This is on his About.Me page:
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Here's my critique: I LOVE THE WHOLE THING.
The picture (you can't see the whole thing in this snapshot... ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profile Critique, LinkedIn Profiles, social networking | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Have you ever gotten a weird request to "recommend" someone on LinkedIn? I have a fairly large network with people I don't know (usually they have read my stuff, or heard me speak), and every once in a while I get an email with this:
So, what do you do?
My first ...
Posted in LinkedIn Recommendations, social networking | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
I went to a third degree contact's profile to critique it and I saw very little of the profile. In fact, in the search results I saw the picture of the person, and I didn't see that in the profile. I see a few things, and then this:
I miss how ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Profiles, social networking | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 10th, 2012
The internet is abuzz with the news that LinkedIn now has more than 150 million people signed up on their site. Congrats, LinkedIn - that is cool! Here's their unique visitors from Compete (a third party - who knows how accurate this is):
What does it mean that they are getting ...
Posted in LinkedIn News, social networking | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Excellent article on the WSJ FINS site titled Has LinkedIn Killed the Rolodex?
I thought it was going to be an article showing that yes, indeed, LinkedIn makes a rolodex obsolete.
It wasn't.
It talked about LinkedIn as the tool that it is, but not as a real relationship tool. Some points of ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 5 Comments »
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Check out this post on Recruiting Blogs by Jim Stroud on how to post to multiple LinkedIn Groups at the same time. (watch on YouTube here)
Can you do this? Youbetcha.
Should you do this? Um.... well... um... what do you think?
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Deb Dib, a JibberJobber Partner, pointed me to this post on Mashable about the importance of social tools...
Wondering about the importance of LinkedIn, and other social tools, for your business, career management or job search? Read this article: What Job Seekers Need to Know in Today's Digital Market
Some highlights:
"36% of ...
Posted in LinkedIn for Job Seekers, social networking, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
This is GREAT! Click on the image to see full-size...
This is really, really funny. But in my experience, so true!
I first looked at it from the top down, but let's look at it from the bottom up:
Google+ ... "Do you want anyone to actually see it?" If NO, use Google+ ...
Posted in social networking, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Check out this quote, from a TechCrunch article:
“I don’t think you can take for granted that any social network is going to be here 10 years from now.”
Who said that? Read the short TechCrunch article here.
A guy who had a very successful site in 2002, that was made irrelevent by ...
Posted in social networking, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
I've received emails from my first degree connections for a while. I am always curious to know how people do this. In the early days I had a note in my Summary that said something like "If you connect with me, I'm going to put you on my newsletter." I'd ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn for Job Seekers, LinkedIn Profiles, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
