7 ways to use LinkedIn as a real networking tool | Communication This past week, I received a number of LinkedIn requests to connect. Same ol, same ol’, right? Wrong. I got two different requests that were not only personalized, referencing events we had both attended recently, but also requested follow-up in-person meetings. Now that, my friends, is how you use LinkedIn to build relationships, network and ultimately get jobs or build business. While personalizing your invites may seem basic, I’m continually surprised how many people don’t take this simple step (that also takes about five seconds). Update your status line regularly. Ask current contacts to broker introductions. Focus on thought leadership by importing your blog feed. Extend your network by engaging your blog commenters. Be a joiner. Be an active participant. Let “worlds collide.” What would you add? Thanks for installing the Bottom of every post plugin by Corey Salzano.
10 Great Small Business Smartphone Apps | Company Activities & Management > Company Structures & Ownership from AllBusiness These days, business doesn't just happen between the hours of 9 to 5 or only at the home office. Work gets done almost around the clock wherever a small businessperson happens to be. That makes having a capable mobile device a necessity -- and, for the most part, a "capable mobile device" means a smartphone. But a smartphone all by itself isn't very capable. - Jake Widman LinkedIn Aims to Show Up in More Places Online - Bits Blog - NYT LinkedIn is hoping to let its users tap into their professional network across the Web. On Monday, LinkedIn will make its technology available to software developers who want to use it in their own sites and applications. By incorporating information about someone’s professional profile and connections, LinkedIn can make those sites more useful, said Adam Nash, LinkedIn’s vice president of search and platform products. Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s chief executive, has said he wants the site to be the hub of all conversations about business on the Web. LinkedIn’s recent partnership with Twitter was one step in that direction, and this is another. A few developers have already been experimenting with LinkedIn’s new platform.
7 Ways to Get More Out of LinkedIn - Flock Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. LinkedIn, which recently reached the 50 million user milestone, has long been considered the social networking site for professionals. If you're in business, it is basically expected that you have a profile there. But with the more mainstream platforms like Twitter and Facebook being used for business purposes, some professionals are neglecting their LinkedIn profiles. While LinkedIn is certainly not as dynamic as other social media sites, it still provides a lot of value — if you use it correctly. 1. Some media reports claim that because organizations can use any criteria they want to make hiring decisions, photo avatars provide companies with information they may not have otherwise known about you based on a resume alone and could actually hurt you more than help. Eric B. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Sharlyn Lauby
XIAM007 - Making Unique Observations in a Very Cluttered World Twitter, LinkedIn Get Together: How to Get Started - CIO.com - B CIO — LinkedIn and Twitter announced a partnership on Monday that will allow you to tweet your LinkedIn status or stream your tweets to your LinkedIn profile. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone called called this "bringing the peanut butter and the chocolate together to make the perfect combination." HOW TO: Do Good on LinkedIn - Flock This series is supported by Toyota Prius and presented by harmonytweets, a Twitter-based platform for filtering conversations around design, sustainability, eco technology and philanthropy. Leverage Twitter to communicate around ideals you care about at harmonytweets.com. Over the last few weeks, we've focused on how you can use the web to do good. Whether you're using your own blog, Twitter or Facebook — social platforms can be a real catalyst for contributing to social good. With more than 43 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is most frequently used as a way of networking with business colleagues and potential employers and employees. 1. Last November, LinkedIn launched its Events feature in conjunction with Eventbrite. In the "Find Events" menu of the Events panel, you can search for events by keyword, date, area and here's the big key, "event type." Do you have an upcoming fundraiser or charity event? 2. LinkedIn Groups are a great way to bring like-minded individuals together. 3.
LinkedIn Book | Social Media Training & Speaker | Rock the World Microsoft Outlook To Become More LinkedIn Professional social network LinkedIn is showing a little Microsoft love today. In conjunction with the announcement of the beta of Microsoft’s Office 2010 at its Professional Developer Conference, LinkedIn and Microsoft have partnered to offer an add-on that integrates much of your LinkedIn contact information with your Outlook contacts. The add-on to Outlook will provide professional and social context to any Outlook users everyday email experience. When you received an email from a contact who happens to be a member of LinkedIn, Outlook will show a collapsible pane that will show information on what the contact’s latest activity is on Linkedin. So in Outlook, you’ll be able to see a picture of contacts (pulled from their Linkedin profile), who they have recently connected to on the network, and any status updates they’ve posted on the site. The other bonus of the add-on is the synchronization between Outlook and LinkedIn contacts.
Embedding Video Into Your LinkedIn Profiles - Flock LinkedIn announced recently that it was opening up its platform to Open Source development, allowing public developers to be able to access the site's API and incorporate LinkedIn into their business and Web sites (similar to the process permitted by Facebook and Twitter). In so doing, one could only hope that a developer will decide to create an API that will allow users to download videos into their profiles. However, if you don't want to wait on development, there is a short-cut for embedding videos into your LinkedIn profiles using Google's presentation application. Niall HarbisonNiall Harbison, one of Simply Zesty's founders is a prominent PR/social media guru based in Ireland who assists small businesses in branding and disseminating their messages vis a vis social media. Here you can see, Niall successfully found a way to embed a video into his LinkedIn profile
Giant Solar Blast Headed for Earth | Wired Science The biggest solar blast in four years erupted late Monday, and it's sending jets of charged particles right at Earth. The spray will spark bright auroras when it hits the magnetosphere in the next 24 to 48 hours. A cluster of sunspots called Active Region 1158 unleashed the flare at 8:50 p.m. EST, Feb. 14 [1:50 a.m. As Spaceweather.com notes, the sunspots didn't even exist one week ago, and now cover a swatch of sun wider than Jupiter. NOAA forecasters estimate a 45 percent chance of geomagnetic activity on Thursday, Feb. 17, when the bulk of the radiation hits Earth's magnetic field. Should the new storm prove as powerful, it could be a preview of what's expected this year and in 2012, as the sun reaches an expected maximum in its natural cycle of activity. There is, however, a silver -- and green, and yellow, and glowing -- lining to the flares. Via Spaceweather.com Images: NASA/STEREO See Also:
Writing Great LinkedIn Invitations | Investing, Raising Capital, Great LinkedIn invitations? Are they really that big a deal? Sure, canned messages are lame, but inviting someone to connect via LinkedIn (or any other social networking site) is just a simple matter of record-keeping. What’s wrong with just, “Hey, let’s connect?” That’s one way to look at it. But consider this: every communication you have with someone in your network is an opportunity to move that relationship forward, to make it stronger. There’s another reason your LinkedIn invitations matter: if too many (five or so, best guess – LinkedIn doesn’t publish the actual number) of your invitations are rejected (“I don’t know the sender”) by the recipient, your account may be temporarily suspended and you will lose the ability to invite people to connect without their email address. One way to ensure having your LinkedIn invitations accepted is to email the person before sending them a LinkedIn invitation and ask them if they’d like to connect on LinkedIn. Establish context. Hi Paul!