Ways to Use LinkedIn
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Breaking In To LinkedIn
Posted by Steve Tylock on 29 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service, Ways to Use LinkedIn
How does one get started with LinkedIn?
You’re coming from a place of no presence and want to get going as fast as possible, but really don’t want to spend all of your time with the system…
Getting a quick and thorough, 90-minute introduction to LinkedIn is the entire reason “The LinkedIn Personal Trainer” exists, but let me offer some candid advice.
Connecting To Stranger Danger
Posted by Steve Tylock on 23 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
One more point on the “be careful who you connect to” side of things – the person you connect to may not always be real.
Computer World features an article this week on how “Robin Sage” was able to connect, friend, and follow on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter – with professionals in the security field.
On one side it isn’t as explosive as it could be, but on the other, there was probably too free a flow of information…
Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths – Part X
Posted by Steve Tylock on 24 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
Connecting to thousands of people you don’t know …
So let’s wrap this up – and answer the really big question – why does this matter?!?
For that, we must return one more time into the breach…
Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths – Part IX
Posted by Steve Tylock on 22 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
Connecting to thousands of people you don’t know gets you more sales leads, opportunities, and addresses for your database!
Finally – let’s look at a few comments I’ve seen about connecting indiscriminately that might actually have more truth in them than the others.
But do they count for you?
Let’s see…
More Linkedin Lawsuit Nonsense
Posted by Steve Tylock on 16 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
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…
Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths – Part VIII
Posted by Steve Tylock on 13 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
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.
LinkedIn BlackBerry Version 1.1 Released
Posted by Steve Tylock on 07 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Ways to Use LinkedIn
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!
LinkedIn For The Hard At Work
Posted by Steve Tylock on 05 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Ways to Use LinkedIn
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…
Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths – Part VII
Posted by Steve Tylock on 28 May 2010 | Tagged as: Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
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!
LinkedIn Works – A Guest Post
Posted by Steve Tylock on 25 May 2010 | Tagged as: Jobs, Ways to Use LinkedIn
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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