Archive for the ‘Using LinkedIn’ Category
Monday, May 16th, 2011
I'm getting more LinkedIn spam through direct messages. It's dissappointing because it hasn't been very common.
Here's how this spammer started - it looks like they have a program to extract my title and other general information from my Profile, and marry it to a template message (the rest is as ...
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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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn for Job Seekers, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 25th, 2011
I learn so much from Twitter. In this case I'm learning about what I must have shared somewhere (not sure where - the LinkedIn book??)... :)
Maybe I shared it on this blog - I plead scatterbrained.
Anyway, it's a cool list... click here to "browse all industries" on LinkedIn.
Posted in Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in social networking, Using LinkedIn | 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 »
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
I got an email from a forum I'm on linking to this blog post from Design Taxi: Report: Most of LinkedIn's Users Don't Use the Site.
What do you think?
Are you surprised?
I'm not.
Almost two years ago I wrote a blog post titled Fake Metrics, where I talk about the difference between ...
Posted in LinkedIn for Job Seekers, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Less than a year ago I wrote How (and Why) to Leave a LinkedIn Group.
The steps to leave a LinkedIn Group have changed... here's how you leave a LinkedIn Group (as of right now):
Click on Groups and then go to the Group page (you can get there various ways, this ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, Using LinkedIn | 6 Comments »
Monday, February 14th, 2011
You may have heard debates about what is better, Facebook or LinkedIn or ____.
I don't get too involved in those talks for various reasons. Even though LinkedIn has 1/6th (more or less) the number of signups that Facebook has, it is still a strong, contender for what it does.
Can Facebook, ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
I get almost-canned invitations regularly that say:
I use LinkedIn to keep track of my professional network, and would like to add you.
I hate this, for two reasons.
First, no one uses LinkedIn to "keep track of their professional network," just by adding someone.
If you add me to your network, how do ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 14th, 2011
LinkedIn announced they would allow you to open a group so that people could see your contributions just by searching on Google (or any search engine).
You can read LinkedIn's announcement about this here. Quoting from that post:
In the new Open Groups, all discussions can be viewed by anyone on the ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, Using LinkedIn | 6 Comments »
