The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

I’m really excited about creating this program – The Project Solvers and I have developed a workshop on Thursday July 16th for project teams and managers.

Besides the usual questions about how to use LinkedIn, we’ll show participants a tools set that will allow you to run projects effectively through LinkedIn and a few of the additional applications tied into the service.

How can project members communicate across the team?

Is there a way to share project plans and documents?

Can we get feedback from the development community, or the marketplace?

If our project team is scattered across several companies, cities, and continents, how can we setup an environment that lets us all do what we have to do?

All those questions – and more – will be answering for the workshop participants!

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Someone sent you this terrific LinkedIn message – and you responded in great detail to this wonderful opportunity, but it’s gone nowhere – why?

Later on you met up with them in-person at a networking event and asked about it, but they denied ever seeing anything from you in response and moved on.

How frustrating is that!

The answer is all in the little details and how you tried to use the system – and I’ll show you…

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A recent commenter on my “Someone’s Been Sitting In My Chair” article mentioned that they like to check into the people that viewers of a particular profile have also viewed. (Thanks Wil!-)

My first reaction and reply back was that the information was good only for other people’s profiles, but when I was writing this article, I realized a nifty way to use this feature  to see who else viewers of your profile viewed – you’ll want to see this!

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Everyone knows by this time that the number of connections for LinkedIn users is displayed as a number from 0 (yes, there are some people on the system with no connections) to 500+.

A reader asked if I could help him determine how many connections someone with more than 500 had and it proved to be an interesting challenge – I thought you might like to see…

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Even if all your associates are suggesting you have to tweet or get going with facebook, you have my official permission to ignore them – and those sites. (at least for now)

And here’s why…

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So – I’ve been working with the Rochester Business Alliance to schedule a LinkedIn seminar and we’ve agreed to hold it on the morning of June 26th.

Thought this would make a nice short post as I’ve gotten several inquiries about holding a local event.

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Another common question – what’s up with that block in the top right section that says “People You May Know”.

Who are they? Why Does LinkedIn think I know them? What should I do?

Let’s look into that a bit more…

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OK – so really – Someone’s been viewing my profile.

But Who?

LinkedIn gives you a bit of information, and finding out more is often a frequent question.

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Well – my lack of post last week gives me a good topic for this week – how LinkedIn works even when you’re not thinking about it.

Even without taking the time to login to the LinkedIn system to proactively search out contacts, make introduction requests, and pursue your own agenda, LinkedIn is still there for you.

Other members from the current pool of 38 million are searching, asking for introductions, and looking to make things happen.

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Who do you work for when you work for yourself?

This came up in a LinkedIn question as another user asked about company matching.  LinkedIn will try to help you reconnect with people who have also worked for the same company.

It’s helpful when the company has a few hundred employees – you might have known Mary Smith.  It’s often not so helpful for large conglomerates with more than ten thousand employees, and really improbably for companies with over a hundred thousand…

But what happens when you put “Self Employed” in that box…

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