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LinkedIn’s API – Still For Toy Applications

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After last month’s spat over LinkedIn’s use of Twitter’s API, LinkedIn is once again inviting the developer world to their own API. While the program is evolving, is it really ready for prime time? »

Where does the Time Go?

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Do you ever look at your To-Do list at the end of the day, and it doesn’t seem as though you’ve done much — even though it’s the end of the day, and you know you worked all day (because it’s dark)? »

APIs – Easy Come, Easy Go

The sphere has been abuzz over the breakup of LinkedIn and Twitter. Perhaps LinkedIn isn’t happy to have the API rug pulled from under their feet, but it does look like the same sort of explanation that LinkedIn itself offered when others have made use of its API! »

Review of LinkedIn App: Here on Biz

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Here on Biz is a mobile app that connects to a person’s LinkedIn account, giving them instant visibility into professionals around them. Think of it as Foursquare for business, but much more useful and applicable to active LinkedIn users. »

Introductions are Proven to be More Effective than Cold Calls

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Did you know that introductions are proven to be more effective than cold calls? When you’re making cold calls, you’re calling someone you don’t know, hoping to get their attention long enough to listen to what you have to say. When someone introduces you, it comes with a personal recommendation. The person will listen to »

Tips from The LinkedIn Rockstars: Top Ten Annoying Behaviors of People on LinkedIn – Number 9

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I recently received an email from a stranger asking me to send them a LinkedIn invitation. This is a complete breach of online etiquette, and creates a problem where there is none.

When you join LinkedIn, you get 3,000 initial invites. (If you send them often to people you don’t actually know, and they indicate »

Tips from the LinkedIn Rockstars: Top Ten Annoying Behaviors of People on LinkedIn – Number 10

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Let’s do this in reverse order. It is so frustrating when you receive an invitation from someone who is building a network purely as a numbers game. They are just burning through their initial limited supply of invitations (3,000) and responding to a message like this is like flocking to the Firesale announcement of local »

 
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