All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Sometimes some funny s*** gets said about LinkedIn. We try to find and share it.

Your LinkedIn Profile Photo Matters

Besides the fact that it’s against LinkedIn’s User Agreement, this should just be plain common sense:

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What’s LinkedIn?

A funny anecdote from Kendall Kunz:

At the post office today, a woman with curlers in her hair asked me, “where’s the courthouse?”  I wasn’t sure but then she asked what I did for a living.  When I told her, she asked me for a business card and said she was in marketing.  I said, “send . . .
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Is LinkedIn Psychic or What?

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~ Arthur . . .
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Following Companies on LinkedIn – What’s the Value?

Lesson for LinkedIn: You need to communicate the value of this feature more effectively to users.

Lesson for businesses: Nobody wants to read your ads. People may tolerate it if they’re receiving other valuable content from you. But LinkedIn doesn’t (yet) have the kind of conversational engagement that Facebook or Twitter has, so you’ve got to . . .
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Dr. Seuss LinkedIn Invitation

If Dr. Seuss were alive today and a member of LinkedIn, I wonder what an invitation from him might have looked like. I’m thinking something like this:

When you’re looking for that person
Who can make a job connection,
Or someone who’s an expert in
Inflection or convection,
Or maybe you are headed on a
Trip to Machu Pichu,
And you want to . . .
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What's the #1 best job search tool that many
are missing out on?

You guessed it: LinkedIn.

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