Apr
10
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 [...]
Feb
3
February 3, 2007 – 10:16 pm
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.
Jan
16
January 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm
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 [...]
Jan
13
January 13, 2007 – 12:57 pm
I have joined LinkedInnovators, LinkedinEurope and MyLinkedinPowerForum. With LinkedIn Bloggers it is a nice set of groups.
Jan
6
January 6, 2007 – 12:49 pm
I am a member of LinkedIn Bloggers and find it really useful. The forum at Yahoo Group is for LinkedIn members only. Topics covered are blogs and blogging but also related technologies (such as podcasting, video blogging and wikis).
LinkedIn has no forum feature which is why Yahoo Groups is used to achieve this. And I [...]
Jan
5
January 5, 2007 – 1:02 pm
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 [...]
Jan
5
January 5, 2007 – 1:01 pm
LinkedIn has launched Answers which is a place where you can ask questions and/or answer other peoples questions. Asking questions means tapping into other peoples knowledge, answering questions is a way to raise your own visibility. The later is the first thing in Guy Kawasakis list of how to better utilize LinkedIn.
Update.
Jason Alba at JibberJobber [...]
Jul
16
There are several great sites that help you build and maintain professional as well as social networks. Take a look at XING (formerly openBC), LinkedIn, Ryze and ZeroDegrees.
