Tony Karrer has a post about Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups where he writes about he interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Tony asks three questions:
How do you use LinkedIn?
How do you use Discussion Groups?
What’s the interaction between them?
I use LinkedIn as a networking [...]
The number of LinkedIn discussion groups at Yahoo Groups is high and growing. A really useful list can be found at Directory Of Linkedin Discussion Groups.
Linked in has launched a new function for Reference Search. Reference Search is useful when you need more information about potential employees, employers, and business partners. Just enter company names and the years the person worked at each company. Your search will find the people in your network who can provide professional references for your [...]
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I have joined Twitter but can not really make up my mind about the service. Twitter is a kind of micro-blog, each message is maximum 140 characters. You can follow what your friends at Twitter post about and it is a quick and easy way to communicate.
Jason Alba has a post titled Twitter - Effective [...]
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I found an article titled How not to be a cultural knucklehead in a global business world over at Escape from Cubicle Nation. It is an interesting and useful read for everyone working in an international setting. I fully agree with what is written at the end, “applying these global etiquette principles is neither about [...]
Scott Allen runs Linked Intelligence, a blog with lots of useful information around LinkedIn. The header (The smart source for all things LinkedIn) is Scott’s tag line.
While reading posts over at Brazen Careerist I came across this text:
Requesting a specific action and providing a specific benefit are very important – Tell people what you want from them so they can give it to you.
This is line with the method for introductions we used at our XING Oeresund BC After Work [...]
Guy Kawasaki has a very interesting post about his LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover. There is an image of his profile before with great comments on what ought to be changed and added. Many of us (me included) can learn from this and make our networking profiles much better.
The comments Guy makes are valid in all [...]
I have joined LinkedInnovators, LinkedinEurope and MyLinkedinPowerForum. With LinkedIn Bloggers it is a nice set of groups.
Guy Kawasaki has written an interesting post about using LinkedIn. He writes that LinkedIn is a tool that is under-utilized (I am guilty of that), and he has compiled a list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn:
1. Increase your visibility.
2. Improve your connectability.
3. Improve your Google PageRank.
4. Enhance your search engine results.
5. Perform [...]