Archive for October, 2010
Friday, October 29th, 2010
I saw a brilliant post by Amos asking recruiters what LinkedIn is, IN ONE SENTENCE.
Here are some replies:
What do you think?
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
So I finally started working on the third edition of my LinkedIn book: I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What??? It should be printed sometime in Q1 of 2011. My publisher has been asking for this for a while but I've just been too busy with other stuff (the LinkedIn DVD, ...
Posted in Book Experience, LinkedIn Book | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
I got this from an attendee of one of my recent LinkedIn workshops:
I've found an interesting use of Twitter. I've found some interesting profiles in LinkedIn with no common groups to me or logical introduction devices, but they have Twitter accounts. I go in and follow them on Twitter. So ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, social networking | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Last week I did about 20 hours of presenting, including two 6-hour workshops.
Judah Flum was in one of the 6-hour workshops, on the front row.
To be honest with you, I think I have great content and great ideas, but I wonder how many of the attendees will actually do some ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
I just got this message in an invitation to connect:
You probably know I designed JibberJobber.com as a tool to help organize and keep track of a job search - most of which is keeping track of network contacts. So I'm greatly biased here, but I want to make a distinction ...
Posted in social networking, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Monday, October 4th, 2010
I am getting lots of emails from people who are having problems with exporting their contacts to a csv file. I think I've figured something out (a solution) although I'm not sure why the problem exists.
The problem is that when you export the file to a csv, and then you ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, Using LinkedIn | 4 Comments »
Friday, October 1st, 2010
I got a note from John Reinke, one of my favorite thinkers, who warns against a new, very prevalant spam email that looks like it is from LinkedIn but it is not.
Here's what it looks like in your inbox:
When you click on it, it looks totally legit (but it is ...
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