Expanding Your LinkedIn Network

One of my friends, an author, speaker and global business consultant, wrote to me:

Dear Scott :

You are the expert: I would like to ask you how I can expand my connections up into the 500 category. I have just about tapped out the people I know (so many of them are either . . .
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LinkedIn Connections 11-15-2007

The Danger of LinkedIn Addiction

Ray van den Bel, who I applaud for trying to reclaim the term “open networker” from meaning, “I’ll link with anybody,” tells of his experience shifting from a quantity focus on LinkedIn to a quality focus. This is a must-read.

There are quite a number of really addicted networkers now . . .
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One Person’s Spam Is Another’s Networking

Ben Jankowski, writing on MLPF, says:

The problem is that the explanation of the violation of spamming is so vague, that a person that sends a particular Invitation to a user, one user could interpret that as mere networking, while another user may consider it spamming.

Ben is spot on with this. This is . . .
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What’s In Store at LinkedIn?

In case you’ve been wondering how to get some cool LinkedIn swag, the LinkedIn Store is now open for business. In it you can find:

T-shirts Backpacks Gel pens Microfleece vests and jackets Caps

Not a bad start. The prices are fine, and I really like the pens.

But isn’t LinkedIn a business network? . . .
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Using Your Network

In a recent post on MLPF, new author Teresa Holler asked the question:

How Can I Use My Network to Promote my Book?

Hello everyone, I am relatively new to Linked In and to using groups. I am getting ready to launch “Holler for Your Health: Be the Key to a Healthy Family” and . . .
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I’ve Been Busy!

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been pretty scarce around the blog during the month of October. It’s not just here, but also on my other blogs, the Yahoo Groups, my Ryze networks, etc.

So what have I been doing?

First, let me tell you one of the most valuable lessons I have . . .
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LinkedIn Joins Google OpenSocial API Initiative

I wrote book in June about LinkedIn’s API announcement, ostensibly for them to compete with Facebook’s expansion into the business networking market. Since that announcement, though, LinkedIn has been pretty quiet about the whole thing.

That all changed yesterday with the announcement from Google of the launch of their OpenSocial platform, a standard set of . . .
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Video: Social Networking in Plain English

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My long-time (well, at least in internet terms) friend Lee LeFever has created a really clever, entertaining video that explains online social networking (a la LinkedIn) in plain English. Enjoy!

I found it really interesting that he used the same roadmap analogy I have used to describe . . .
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It’s All About Meme!

It seems I’ve been meme-tagged, so what better excuse to poke my head out from a several-week hiatus, eh? Ali over at Greener Assets has tagged me for the “7 random things about me that you might not know” meme.

So here we go…

. . .
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LinkedIn to Add Photos

Sometimes it pays to be up and working at 2:30 am, because just a few minutes ago, LinkedIn’s Senior Product Director Adam Nash announced on the LinkedIn blog that starting today Friday, LinkedIn users will be able to add pictures to their profile.

According to Nash:

Adding a profile photo is one of the most . . .
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