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 do on . . .
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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 is dead:

LinkedIn has . . .
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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 these myself. . . .
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