Self-professed uber-nerd Pete Johnson is Chief Architect of HP.com and runs a personal blog called Nerd Guru. I met Pete a couple of months ago when he was in Austin, introduced via Jason Alba, and gave him a copy of The Virtual Handshake. Pete read it on the airplane on his way home and has now posted a review of it on his blog, in which he talks about some of his realizations and subsequent actions after reading the book. He seemed to find a great deal of value in our “7 Keys to a Powerful Network” framework:
This is all covered in the first two chapters of the book, but I spend a lot of time on it here because it not only provides a framework for the other chapters, but when I applied this analysis on my own career it had a pretty profound effect on me. What I realized was that I had a bigger network than I thought I did, despite never actively “networking” per se. However, I had pretty pitiful diversity outside my employer of the last 14 years. These two chapters did what every good book should do: made me want to read the rest of it. [His emphasis, not mine.]
He then goes on to talk about LinkedIn in particular and how he has used it:
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