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LexBlog LinkedIn API Case Study

By Scott Allen, on April 26th, 2010%

From The LinkedIn Blog:

One of the things LexBlog does for our clients is to identify valuable tools that our clients can use to extend the reach of their blogs and engage their target audience. LinkedIn is a tool we at LexBlog consider essential for professionals looking to enhance their reputation. LinkedIn has become not only the . . . → Read More: LexBlog LinkedIn API Case Study

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Startup Finds Funding via LinkedIn

By Scott Allen, on January 26th, 2010%

Although LinkedIn has become best known for recruiting and job search, angel and venture funding has more quietly been one of the most successful applications of LinkedIn. Even knowing that, in reading this story about how web collaboration startup Goshido used LinkedIn to raise capital I was amazed at just how strong the results were:

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For Those LinkedIn Disbelievers

By Scott Allen, on February 26th, 2009%

I saw this from Jon Bailey (Twitter – LinkedIn) on Twitter . . . → Read More: For Those LinkedIn Disbelievers

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LinkedIn Connections 1-1-2008

By Scott Allen, on January 3rd, 2008%

560026_links Welcome to another installment of my occasional roundup of LinkedIn-related blog posts, articles and conversations:

FYI: my LinkedIn contact

Gianpolo Carraro is using LinkedIn to stay connected with his blog readers:

I realized that a lot of the people I would like to connect with are the readers of my blog. The reason is very simple, over the past couple of years, many of the comments, questions, feedback I received through this blog led to great “offline” conversations. However, once the conversation ended, I lost touch with the brilliant mind (or minds) involved in these cyber-discussions. What a shame!

I found this intriguing because there have been some bloggers who have felt they didn’t have any use for LinkedIn because people could always find them or contact them through their blog. In my mind, that’s kind of like saying you don’t need a yellow pages listing because people can find you in the white pages.

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Building Real Relationships Globally on LinkedIn

By Scott Allen, on December 31st, 2007%

906253_brazil Bruce Hill tells the story of how he used LinkedIn to build real, valuable relationships in another continent. I also found Bruce’s story particularly fascinating because it echoes one of the ideas we introduced in The Virtual Handshake, which is that our collective experience with internet dating has laid the groundwork in our collective consciousness that trusted business relationships can be built virtually. Here’s Bruce’s story:

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