Archive for August, 2009
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
I got a message from a friend in New Jersey recently:
I was visiting my daughter in Vermont and saw your book at the local B&N. Just for a smile I took one of my business cards and stuck it between a page where you used one of my quotes. Thought ...
Posted in Book Experience, LinkedIn Book | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Well, this is an almost damn good LinkedIn Summary... I see some things to enhance (like capitalizing letters, adding periods, etc. :p).
But really, I LOVE the highlighted part:
You might get hung up on the lack of periods, but you gotta admit, there's something awesome about exhuding confidence.
Does your LinkedIn Summary ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 17th, 2009
I get requests to review people's Profiles regularly. Today I was reviewing one and I was struck with a "now what?" moment.
So I liked the LinkedIn Profile.
I wanted to contact the person.
I wanted to see if we could move forward (me interview him, etc.).
But there was NO call to action. ...
Posted in Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 14th, 2009
I got this from Director Tom a few weeks ago and was amazed... I agree with almost everything he writes in here, but the amazing part was some of the very cool stuff I hadn't thought of (or found).
Spend a few minutes and check out Tom's very good post titled ...
Posted in Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Not sure why this hit TechCrunch... I thought the BIG news would be in a couple/few months when they hit 50M.
Is this a big milestone, nonethless, and I'm happy to congratulate LinkedIn (congrats LinkedIn!).
Mr. ReinkeFJ says in his comment:
Unfortunately, (I hate to be the grinch), but that doesn’t mean there ...
Posted in social networking, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
How do you like that - I came up with a tre-clever title! Killer... stab... ah, I crack myself up :p
Seriously, let's talk about the notion of a LinkedIn Killer. On TechCrunch Michael Arrington writs about the WSJ Connect. Interesting article, which talks about the first attempt the WSJ ...
Posted in LinkedIn News | 9 Comments »
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
I'm regularly asked about the power and importance of LinkedIn Recommendations. One issue that comes up has to do with one of my pet peeves: what to do when someone who you don't know asks you for a LinkedIn Recommendation?
My answer is to ignore (archive) it. Don't even respond.
Here's a ...
Posted in LinkedIn Recommendations | 3 Comments »
