Archive for the ‘social networking’ Category

LinkedIn: The Sky Is Falling (or is it?)

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Over on the Career Resumes blog I just wrote about some of the bad stuff I'm hearing about with regard to LinkedIn.  There is a post from Jaculynn Peterson titled LinkedIn’s soon-to-be-missed opportunity, which has some great points.  I hear these points continually as people wonder what the heck LinkedIn ...

Are You Leveraging The Power of LinkedIn?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

There are many ways to leverage the power of LinkedIn, of course... here's one of my favorites. When you do something on another social environment (whether that's a Yahoo Group, your blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) you could refer back to LinkedIn.  Maybe you refer back to your Profile, or a question ...

LinkedIn and Twitter

Monday, December 29th, 2008

No, this isn't the much-anticipated post announcing a link between LinkedIn and Twitter (like there is on Facebook), but I do want to talk briefly about Twitter.  I'm assuming that you (readers of this blog) are interested in social networking, marketing, etc. for business, personal or job search reasons. Actually, I ...

LinkedIn Thoughts From Sophie Lagacé

Friday, December 12th, 2008

I've gotten to know Sophie Lagacé over the last year or so and have always appreciated her value-add comments on my blog - she's a good thinker, and freely shares her knowledge.  My kind of person :) She has a really, really good post about LinkedIn and social networking... its a ...

LinkedIn vs. Xing (or, what is Xing.com??)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

TechCrunch has a great post on Xing... I get asked all the time about Xing... what is it, should you be on it, etc. I don't have an account on Xing, although if I had time I would.  Xing has had a strong foothold in Europe... I kind of think of ...

Your LinkedIn Network Is Not… YOURS

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Interesting timing, considering my post on the JibberJobber blog titled LinkedIn Maintenance: Do This Right Now (or else?).  Jay Deragon, author of The Relationship Economy, writes about LinkedIn's additions to their user agreement. These are additions that could have a profound impact on your future use of LinkedIn: Linkedin recently released an update to ...

Marshall Kirkpatrick - 10 Objections to Social Media and How to Reply

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Marshal Kirkpatrick, lead writer for ReadWriteWeb, just posted Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond. I wish I could pull his entire post in here and then red-mark it with my comments... not that I disagree with anything but I do have my own ...