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Making the Most of Website Links on Your LinkedIn Profile

By Scott Allen, on July 29th, 2007%

websites.gifWhen LinkedIn first launched, there was nowhere to put links to any of your web sites in your profile. Then they added the ability for a single link, and later three. Now, they not only allow you to have three links, you can also make the text for those links whatever you want, rather than just the generic “My Website”, “My Blog” and “My Company”.

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Liz Strauss Thinks I’m an SOB

By Scott Allen, on July 28th, 2007%

Uber-blogger and corporate blogging consultant Liz Strauss of Successful-Blog and Liz Strauss.com has named Linked Intelligence as one of this week’s SOBs (Successful and Outstanding Bloggers).

Now, anyone can hand out an award, but I think what really resonated with me about this is Liz’s explanation of what this award is all about:

…for extending the conversation . . . → Read More: Liz Strauss Thinks I’m an SOB

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Who’s Looking at Your LinkedIn Recommendations?

By Scott Allen, on July 28th, 2007%

ginarecommendations.gifVincent Wright posted on MLPF about what may be a LinkedIn first (first time I’ve ever seen it, that’s for sure): a publication actually quoting a LinkedIn recommendation.

In a recent interview with Ning CEO and Co-founder Gina Bianchini, Folksonomy.org opened the interview with:

Marc Andreessen commented on LinkedIn that he was impressed with your strategic thinking.

That “comment” is actually an endorsement on Gina’s LinkedIn profile by Netscape Co-founder and former AOL CTO Marc Andreessen.

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LinkedIn Toolbar Vulnerability Alert

By Scott Allen, on July 25th, 2007%

776465_warning_3.jpgSecurity researchers (some would say hackers – more on that below) have discovered a vulnerability in LinkedIn Internet Explorer Toolbar, which can be exploited to execute malicious code on a user’s system. Until such time as LinkedIn releases an update, users of the toolbar are advised to disable or uninstall it. This does not affect the vast majority of LinkedIn users, as the vulnerability only occurs if:

  1. You are using Internet Explorer, and
  2. The LinkedIn toolbar for IE is active, and
  3. You visit a malicious site with exploit code.

See the Secunia advisory for more details.

This case is bound to spark some ethical controversy, both in the security industry and regarding LinkedIn’s handling of the matter.

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The $5,000 Profile Update

By Scott Allen, on July 23rd, 2007%

jefre_outlaw.gifI was talking with my friend Jefre Outlaw this week (he was trying to help me help my wife find host homes for several foreign exchange students with an urgent need — thanks, Jefre and all the others who helped), and he was telling me a great LinkedIn anecdote about the importance of keeping your profile up-to-date.

If you look at Jefre’s profile, you’ll see that he’s a “portfolio entrepreneur” (like me and so many others). Among other things, after more than 20 years as a real estate investor and developer, he decided to actually go get his own real estate license and join his cousin Blake’s agency, Outlaw Real Estate Group.

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