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b5 Business Channel Bloggers Discuss 2007 Goals

By Scott Allen, on January 16th, 2007%

The b5media business channel has been growing like crazy the past few months and is now up to 17 blogs (not counting a couple of us who haven’t “officially” joined yet). That’s enough people to do a sort of blog carnival of our own. Once a month, we do a theme day within the channel. This . . . → Read More: b5 Business Channel Bloggers Discuss 2007 Goals

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LinkedIn Starts Cleaning Up Answers Spam

By Scott Allen, on January 16th, 2007%

flagquestion.gifLinkedIn fairly quickly implemented a couple of important changes to help reduce the growing flood of spam (or at least “spammy”) posts in their new Answers feature. The first, and probably most important (it was by far the most popular answer when I posed the question, “What do you think is the best way to stop people from spamming LinkedIn Answers?“) is the ability to flag a question. It took me a couple of seconds to find it, even when I knew it was there somewhere, so take a look at the picture at right to know where to look.

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Practicing LinkedIn, Part 1 – Monthly

By Scott Allen, on January 16th, 2007%

todo.jpgOne of the beauties of LinkedIn is that it works for both passive users and highly active users and everywhere in between, and still delivers value. This series of posts is geared toward the active end of that spectrum. I’m going to lay out a plan for daily, weekly and monthly activities that can help you get the most value out of LinkedIn.

If you’re a regular reader, or if you’ve seen my posts on the various Yahoo Groups, you know that I’m not an advocate of linking with strangers or of growing the number of people in your network just for the sake of having more people “in” your network (of course, I would contend that merely being linked to them in LinkedIn without any more substance to the relationship means they’re not really “in” your network except in the very most superficial sense).

So rather than spamming invitation requests to every person whose e-mail address you can get ahold of or contacting people whose profiles you find interesting and asking them to invite you to connect (a trend of late that I find increasingly annoying), here’s a proactive, goal-based approach designed to help you get high returns from the time you invest in LinkedIn.

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LinkedIn Connections 1-13-2007

By Scott Allen, on January 13th, 2007%

560026_links.gifBeen a while since I did one of these, but it seems that after the funding, some good press, reports from LinkedIn of a successful 2006, and a major new feature release, lots of people are talking about LinkedIn. Here are a few of the more interesting recent bits I’ve found:

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Saving Axel – Marc Freedman’s Reason 165 Why LinkedIn Is Great

By Scott Allen, on January 11th, 2007%

marcfreedman.jpgMarc Freedman is one of those people who seems to have figured out how to make a network of 17,000+ contacts on LinkedIn actually workable. While I normally tend to discourage building a huge network by linking to people you don’t know, there are a few people for whom I can see that as a viable strategy, namely, a) professional networkers (like Marc, who runs the DallasBlue Network), recruiters, venture capitalists, and anyone else who are essentially deal brokers, and the bulk of their work is spent finding and making deals, and b) people trying to raise awareness of a mass-market product or service, like perhaps professional bloggers, or in Marc’s case, peer-to-peer file sharing software.

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