My Apologies to LinkedIn

By Scott Allen, on March 31st, 2008 | One comment

In my recent post, Getting to Know the Folks at LinkedIn, I made this statement:

What’s clear to me from my conversations with Steve and Mario, as well as past conversations with Patrick Crane and others, plus looking at the latest new features from LinkedIn, is that the main customers they are listening to right now . . .
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Getting to Know the Folks at LinkedIn

By Scott Allen, on March 27th, 2008 | 7 comments

2a69006 Since I don’t live in Silicon Valley and don’t attend a lot of tech conferences, I haven’t previously had a chance to meet any of the people at LinkedIn in person. But I attended SXSW a couple 0c5d6edof weeks ago and had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ganz (right), Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn, and Mario Sundar (left), LinkedIn’s Community Evangelist, who you may recognize as the lead blogger on the official LinkedIn blog.

Steve spoke on a panel about using social networks to build your personal brand (summary/commentary at The Email Wars). Mario was on a panel about corporate blogging (afterthoughts from Mario and a great summary from Scott Monty).

I had a chance to visit with each of them after their panel. Besides just getting to know them personally (Steve loves frisbee golf), I also got a little more insight into what’s going on at LinkedIn.

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What’s New at LinkedIn…Really?

By Scott Allen, on March 24th, 2008 | One comment

The other day I accessed LinkedIn from a computer at an internet cafe, which allowed me to see the full login page for the first time in a long time. The login page features a list of what’s new at LinkedIn:

Hmm… really?

LinkedIn Answers launched in January 2007. Personalized URLs and public web profiles have been . . .
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LinkedIn-Twitter Fascination

By Scott Allen, on March 12th, 2008 | 3 comments

Quote of the day, from Jay Solo on Twitter:

I find it fascinating to look at Joe Random LinkedIn of Twiitterites and find 8-way 3rd degree linkage through wildly disparate connections.

Are you on Twitter? I’d only just sort of tested the waters before, but after this weekend at SXSW, I’m hooked. At the moment it’s sort . . .
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Wordless Wednesday – SXSW Day 5

By Scott Allen, on March 12th, 2008 | Leave a comment

Me at SXSW Bloghaus taken by Tris Hussey:

Check out Tris’s SXSW 2008 pics . . .
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