Wordless Wednesday – Cat-5

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Wordless Wednesday – Heard It Through the Grapevine

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Survey – LinkedIn Community Evangelism, One Year Later

LinkedIn launched their blog in April 2007, shortly after hiring Mario Sundar as Community Evangelist. I know there are probably almost as many different opinions about what LinkedIn ought to be doing with regard to community outreach as there are LinkedIn users. So I thought I’d see what Mario has to say about the . . .
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Wordless Wednesday – Social Networking

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How My Blog Turbo Powers My LinkedIn Connections

This week we’re having some fun in the b5media Business Channel doing a “blog scramble”, with everyone doing guest posts on another blog in the channel. My guest blogger is the inimitable Liz Strauss of Successful Blog, explaining how a well-done blog can enhance your network.

How My Blog Turbo Powers My LinkedIn Connections . . .
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Of Baked Potatoes and Corporate Branding

My favorite LinkedIn-related quote of the past few weeks is from Erik Dafforn at ClickZ, who asks, “When does social media matter in SEM?“:

LinkedIn has been a workhorse of social networking sites, sort of a baked potato to FaceBook’s bag of Skittles. People likely spend less time per visit on LinkedIn than they . . .
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More Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn

Over the past few weeks I’ve been collecting some more great ideas from the blogosphere to add to my collection of 100+ Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn. Here are the recent additions:

Warm Calling via LinkedIn – Alex Iskold

As part of his excellent “Guide to Business Development 2.0″, Alex says that cold calling . . .
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Five Ways Authors Can Profit from LinkedIn

The following article came up a couple of times in my Google Alerts in the past few weeks, and I thought it was truly excellent. The author gives free reprint permission, so I thought rather than link to it, I’d just provide it directly here.

By the way, I’ve used LinkedIn for several of . . .
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Blogger Appreciation Day April 14

Problogger’s Darren Rowse has declared Monday, April 14, Blogger Appreciation Day, saying:

I’ve been chatting with a few bloggers of late who’ve been feeling a little down in the dumps about their blogging – so perhaps everyone could do with a little lift.

Lets spend today doing a few random acts of kindness and . . .
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The Joys of LinkedIn Evangelism

Sean Nelson at the Got LinkedIn blog came across my Bitstrips review and decided to check it out. Here’s one of his first efforts (hilarious):

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Ever feel like that when telling your friends and colleagues about LinkedIn?

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