Archive for the ‘social networking’ Category
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 »
Friday, May 6th, 2011
One of the most famous references on how to use LinkedIn is Guy Kawasaki's Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. I still see people point to this post, today, more than four years later (LinkedIn was almost 4 years old when it was written).
I wanted to revisit Guy's post and speak ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Alison Doyle, job search expert at About.com, wrote Don't Waste Your Time on LinkedIn.
She's right.
Don't dabble, or tinker, or wait for reward.
Get in there, do it right, set up your Profile well, be proactive, make networking connections, and do good stuff.
Use the tool!
If you are complaining about not getting ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
LinkedIn finally announced they have 100 million people who have signed up for their service.
These are not 100M users... but people who have opened an account (less the duplicates, of course).
Congrats to LinkedIn - that is a great milestone!
(check out the cool image at the bottom of this post that ...
Posted in LinkedIn News, social networking | No Comments »
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
John O'Connor runs a small outplacement firm (small compared to the multi-billion dollar competition) in North Carolina and has recently been blogging a lot about social stuff in a job search.
Here's a post I just found which is actually pretty profound: Delete Your LinkedIn Account.
I kind of agree, almost.
I think ...
Posted in social networking, Using LinkedIn | 3 Comments »
