The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

Short version: people are once again talking about a lawsuit that includes the word “LinkedIn” and suggesting that connecting to coworkers / ex-coworkers could be covered by employment agreements.

THAT ISN”T THE ISSUE AT ALL.

If you agree to not solicit company employees, and actually do that, you will get sued – even if the method of solicitation is through LinkedIn, IM, email, facebook, or twitter.

We talked about this three months ago…

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Connecting to thousands of people you don’t know is the best way to drive traffic to your web site!

The myth list is nearing the end, but there’s still a couple more we must talk about before we can put this issue to rest.

And it is interesting, one of my readers, Kurt (don’t worry about which one – there are only 27,000 Kurts on LinkedIn), thinks I am beating a dead horse, but he manages to find out new and interesting things each time I write on the subject, so it does seem to be a different way to think about the system – and worth the time to investigate.

And hey – who doesn’t want more traffic on their web site – I know I do!

So let’s figure out how this could work.

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Updating mobile apps one day, the Inbox another – you’d think those people over at LinkedIn were busy or something…-)

I’ve taken a hard position on LinkedIn’s Inbox for a long time and this update makes the system palatable – let’s look.

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LinkedIn is letting us know that the first uptick in their BlackBerry software, version 1.1 – has been released.

It adds support for Storm and Pearl, and you know what they say about release .1!

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Let’s offer some assistance for those that are feeling LinkedIn is useful only if you are looking for a new job.

You know – they say “I’ll get to it, but I don’t need it right now.”

If only they…

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May’s poll attempted to shed some light on rules about accessing LinkedIn at work…

<insert ominous music here – da-da-da-dum>

Media has written about some draconian policies, and while I have seen a few sites with restrictions, I haven’t seen a whole lot  – So I asked!

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Connecting to thousands of people you don’t know is the best way to meet people and learn new things!

Continuing with really nice sounding arguments on why connecting indiscriminately is the best strategy – who doesn’t want to meet new people and learn new things?!?

In order to support this statement, one would have to be able to say that other mechanisms of meeting people and learning things are less effective than LinkedIn.

I mean – if you can meet 100 new people, and learn 25 new things by doing activity A (in some amount of time) and can meet 1000 new people and learn 400 new things by doing activity B (in some similar amount of time) you might be able to support this statement.  If you can’t, well – that’s just an opinion, isn’t it?

Secondly, we’d have to be able to say that the meeting of people and the new ideas learned are constructive in some way.  It’s easy to learn things by reading the encyclopedia, but I don’t know many people that spend their time just flipping through the pages. (Though since I grew up before the information superhighway, I did spend some of my youth doing just that, though it was more like “skimming for something interesting”…)

So let’s check this out!

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A Guest post by Mike

I was laid off about a month ago. Given the state of the economy and my “older worker” status, getting a new job could have been a lengthy ordeal or a mission impossible. Thanks to LinkedIn, I accepted a new position less than three weeks later.  It was not just any job.  It was, it is – my dream job.  By many important measurements, it is a much better job than the one I had.

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So here it is – a good week after I intended to post on the LinkedIn Personal Trainer Blog – and I can’t really explain what happened.

It’s always interesting when life intrudes on good intentions, but there’s got to be a lesson here somewhere…

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Connecting to thousands of people builds your thought leadership!

Another really nice sounding statement to take on today – doesn’t everyone want to be a thought leader?!?

And if some expert says that you’ll be considered more of a thought leader with thousands of connections (to people you don’t know), it’s got to be true, right?

So let’s start this investigation from the beginning of the thought leadership process…

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