LinkedIn Strategy Webinar June 16

Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 16) at 1pm Eastern I’ll be presenting a webinar in partnership with American Management Assocation (they published my first book, The Virtual Handshake) entitled How to Use LinkedIn to Excel in Your Current Position and Plan for Your Next.

This is not a webinar on the mechanics of how to use LinkedIn . . .
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Maximizing LinkedIn and Other Online Networks – Teleclass 9/22

If you’re reading this blog, odds are that you’re already somewhat familiar with LinkedIn and other social networking sites. But what I constantly get asked, even from people who have been participating in these sites for a while, is, “How do I use these to generate real business?”

It’s easy enough to set up . . .
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Escape 9 to 5 – Free Teleseminar Series Starts June 5

Entrepreneurs — looking to grow your business?

Starting this Thursday, June 5, you can learn some of the most current techniques for growing your business in the Escape 9 to 5 Teleseminar Series.

I love what the organizer, Melissa Gerdes, has to say about the series on the registration page:

Why are we doing this? . . .
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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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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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April 2nd – The Day After

Yesterday, April 1, April Fool’s Day here in the U.S., I wrote a post that began with:

In a surprising move, LinkedIn announced late Monday that they will be terminating their free service, beginning May 1.

It was pure satire, and got a lot of laughs (I’m told even within LinkedIn – one Sr. Director . . .
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April Fool’s!

No, LinkedIn is not getting rid of their free service and accepting only PayPal!

For more explanation, see April 2nd – The Day After.

Image: Miroslav Nagy via stock.xchng

The Impact of Social Media on Selling

In the process of working on The Emergence of The Relationship Economy, we had the pleasure to meet and collaborate with Cluetrain Manifesto coauthor and social media visionary Doc Searls. Besides writing a terrific foreword to our book, Doc has also been working with my business partner and coauthor Jay Deragon on several initiatives, . . .
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Scott Allen Video Interview

Seems my 25-minute interview at the Electronic Retailing Association annual conference last November has made its way to YouTube:

I cover a lot of ground — the state of social media and social networking, internet radio, working for b5media and About.com, and more. If we haven’t gotten to meet face-to-face and you ever wondered . . .
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Free Webinar – "Professional Networking: Beyond Sourcing"

I’ll be giving a free webinar Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2-3pm ET, entitled Professional Networking – Beyond Sourcing, sponsored by ERE Media and LinkedIn. The event is intended for recruiters, and the gist of it is this: any hack recruiter can figure out how to search LinkedIn, Jobster, ZoomInfo and the blogosphere to source candidates, . . .
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