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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
If anyone should know what LinkedIn is, it is the job seeker. Not that LinkedIn is just for job seekers, or just for employment purposes, of course. But it's a great place to be if you are a professional concerned about your career (job seekers fall into this category).
So I ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Jennifer Leggio interviewed Allen Blue on her ZDNet blog, and got some good answers.
Of the more interesting points to me personally was the idea from Jeremiah Owyang that LinkedIn could, with some work, become a corporate standard for Intranets.
I may have no vision, but I don't understand how in the ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
I continue to hear about LinkedIn recommendations, and various ideas about their value. Are they fake? Are they worthless?
I talk about LinkedIn Recommendations in my presentations, and how valuable I think they are. Of course, they can be junk, but if you go about it with a ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Check this out:
This is what I see on a guy's profile this morning. I chuckle as I think about the hundreds of people who have heard me speak this year about the simple, low-hanging-fruit opportunities to make your profile look more "on purpose."
No really, there's nothing WRONG with leaving ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I posted Group Pontification back in March, when I stated I was going to do an experiment. My JibberJobber - Career Management Group on LinkedIn now has 476 members, with very little marketing. I'm not suggesting that you can have a group with hundreds of members with "very ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
All it takes to be different... to show you care... is one simple line. It's not much, is it?
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
How's that for a cool title?
A few weeks ago I presented the following question on LinkedIn Answers:
What's the best use you've seen of the Answers feature on LinkedIn?
I've seen a lot of value from Answers on LinkedIn - please share what value you've seen for yourself or for others.
There were ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
First response on the street is "it's about time."
Digging a little deeper, there are some cool things here, and some things that are still feel kind of old.
This is a much needed update, and it's good progress, but it's not done yet. There are still questions about what the API ...
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