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Introducing Your Network to Each Other

By Scott Allen, on August 19th, 2007%

732367_business_meeting.jpgOne of the most common questions I see about how to use LinkedIn is “How do I introduce two people in my network to each other?”

This is a fundamental practice of good networking, but unfortunately, there’s not a built-in mechanism in LinkedIn for doing that (FYI, others and I have been suggesting that feature for at least three years or so). But just because there’s not built-in functionality for this specific task doesn’t mean that LinkedIn can’t make it a lot easier to accomplish.

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LinkedIn Connections 6-20-2007

By Scott Allen, on June 20th, 2007%

560026_links.gifIt seems LinkedIn is a really hot topic in the blogosphere at the moment. Here’s my irregular roundup of some of my favorite recent posts:

20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively

Web Worker Daily has compiled a list of 20 ways to use LinkedIn:

  1. Increase freelance work.
  2. Find your dream job.
  3. Boost your business.
  4. Improve your Google results.
  5. Check references for potential hires.
  6. Get advice.
  7. Easy resume.
  8. Do research.
  9. Jazz up your profile.
  10. Get connections.
  11. Prep for an interview.
  12. Batch process messages.
  13. Increase your cred.
  14. Brand yourself.
  15. Find people.
  16. Help others.
  17. Get to know a company.
  18. Throw out a net when you don’t need it.
  19. Get publicity.
  20. Market research.

I’ve added it to the Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn page.

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Why Can’t I Just Say No Any More?

By Scott Allen, on May 25th, 2007%

invitation_received.gifRecently, LinkedIn made some changes in the way invitations work, adding some automated consequences for sending invitations to people you don’t know (and who don’t want invitations from people they don’t know). In so doing, they changed the options as to how you can reply to an invitation you receive. You can now:

  • Accept
  • Say you don’t know the person
  • Decide later
  • Reply to the inviter (this very important feature was just recently added a couple of months ago)
  • Flag it as spam

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A LinkedIn First – Asking for Input Before Changing a Feature/Policy

By Scott Allen, on May 16th, 2007%

605494_number_1_-_finger_pointing_up_with_clipping_path.jpgI hope this is the start of a trend…

One of my biggest frustrations with LinkedIn has been the fact that they have not made a practice of getting user input about new features before they’re rolled out – only after the cat’s out of the bag. This used to be just irritating, but increasingly, it has led to some near-disasters for LinkedIn, such as the launch of their really cool Answers feature, which was fraught with spam problems and other blatantly obvious shortcomings, causing them to have to make apologies and promises.

So I was pleasantly surprised to see a message from LinkedIn Business Analyst Ben Guthrie on LinkedInnovators today asking for public input regarding a possible new feature and change in LinkedIn policy:

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Top Ten Feature Requests for LinkedIn Answers

By Scott Allen, on January 9th, 2007%

answers.gifI’ve been using LinkedIn Answers pretty heavily now since its launch. While I think it’s a really useful feature, it has a lot of room for improvement. Here are my top picks for features LinkedIn could add to Answers to make it supremely useful:

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