Free Webinar – Using LinkedIn to Sell More, Faster and with Less Effort

6/28 by Scott Allen

Earlier this week I had the pleasure to meet and chat with Larry Benet aka “The Connector”. He is the past Chairman of the Tsunami Disaster Relief Project where he brought top business leaders together to raise money for tsunami victims. Larry now teaches business owners and sales professionals how to open doors and … »

Networking for Nerds – HP.com Chief Architect on Using LinkedIn

6/28 by Scott Allen

Self-professed uber-nerd Pete Johnson is Chief Architect of HP.com and runs a personal blog called Nerd Guru. I met Pete a couple of months ago when he was in Austin, introduced via Jason Alba, and gave him a copy of The Virtual Handshake. Pete read it on the airplane on his way home and … »

LinkedIn API Plans to Compete with Facebook

6/25 by Scott Allen

Dan Farber at ZDNet reports today that in a conversation last Friday, LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman told him that over the next 9 months, LinkedIn will be opening up to developers via a series of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

What this means in plain English for non-techies is that LinkedIn will make … »

LinkedIn Connections 6-20-2007

6/20 by Scott Allen

It seems LinkedIn is a really hot topic in the blogosphere at the moment. Here’s my irregular roundup of some of my favorite recent posts:

20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively

Web Worker Daily has compiled a list of 20 ways to use LinkedIn:

Increase freelance work. Find your dream job. Boost your business. … »

Using LinkedIn to Make the Sale

6/19 by Scott Allen

Here’s yet another smart way to use LinkedIn. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 21 of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, entitled “Increase the Quality and Quantity of Information”. This, of course, is one of major value propositions of LinkedIn, which this story illustrates beautifully.

Al Chase tells how … »

Using LinkedIn to Find Celebrity Guests

6/19 by Scott Allen

Here’s another smart way to use LinkedIn. On MyLinkedInPowerForum, Stan Relihan recently told the story of how he used LinkedIn to find a celebrity guest for his podcast:

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Systems Archetypes and Online Networking

6/18 by Scott Allen

I’ve long been a fan of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, which first introduced me to the idea of systems thinking. A lot of the concepts I have practiced and written about for the past four years are based on the application of certain system archetypes to the area of online business networking, particularly … »

 
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