Archive for the 'Networking Tips' Category

Networking is valuable but not always easy. Here are some links that can help you improve and sharpen your skills.
Over at TheChangeBlog is a great post about How to Sharpen Your Networking Skills.
Jonathan Mead has 10 Tips for Effective Networking.
wakeuplater writes about 5 Mindsets to Reshape Your Networking. I like this part:
Instead of fitting [...]

Jason Alba of JibberJobber shares A Teleseminar Recording on Facebook, LinkedIn and personal branding. You can listen to William Arruda interview Jason Alba about “Eight Ways to Enhance Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn and Facebook”.

Jason Alba, author of I’m On LinkedIn - Now What???, teamed up with Jesse Stay to write I’m on Facebook — Now What???
The book summary says:
Facebook is one of the hottest websites in today’s world, and is having a major impact on career and business. This book explains the different parts of Facebook and helps [...]

Jason Alba of JibberJobber fame has written a book about LinkedIn titled “I’m On LinkedIn - Now What???”. The book is an excellent guide for new members and those of us who use LinkedIn only in a basic way. But it also offers something useful to the more active and experienced members of LinkedIn.
Topics covered [...]

Xing has launched My Network Value which is a tool that puts a money value on your network. In the Gallery you can compare your own network value, there are graphs by country and industry.
Personally I am not too keen on calculating a money value for my network. I get more from my network than [...]

Now you can show which online network you belong to. There is a LinkedIn Web Store as well as a XING Shop. It is a smart way for the networking sites to get some marketing done in the real world by people who (usually) can market their services too.
Xing wrote this in the information they [...]

LinkedIn has a blog where you can find information about LinkedIn, things like new features and how-to’s.
There is a post titled 3 ways to make networking work, a good post about networking valid not only at LinkedIn.

Scott Allen started the “Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn Group Blogging Project” and has now announced the Prize Winners for the first round.
Scott has gathered the entries and more at Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn. The blog posts are categorized and there are many useful entries.

I am interested in intersections where knowledge areas overlap and create new possibilities. JibberJobber is an interesting mix of career tool, contact manager and a help in job seeking. Networking is great, a network is something one shall build and maintain before it gets urgent to need one. The advantage with a contact manager like [...]

The JibberJobber blog stands on its own, it is useful and interesting even if you do not use the services from JibberJobber. Topics covered are often within my area of interests and I like Jason’s style in writing.

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