By Scott Allen, on July 23rd, 2007%
 I was talking with my friend Jefre Outlaw this week (he was trying to help me help my wife find host homes for several foreign exchange students with an urgent need — thanks, Jefre and all the others who helped), and he was telling me a great LinkedIn anecdote about the importance of keeping your profile up-to-date.
If you look at Jefre’s profile, you’ll see that he’s a “portfolio entrepreneur” (like me and so many others). Among other things, after more than 20 years as a real estate investor and developer, he decided to actually go get his own real estate license and join his cousin Blake’s agency, Outlaw Real Estate Group.
Continue reading The $5,000 Profile Update
By Scott Allen, on June 28th, 2007%
 Self-professed uber-nerd Pete Johnson is Chief Architect of HP.com and runs a personal blog called Nerd Guru. I met Pete a couple of months ago when he was in Austin, introduced via Jason Alba, and gave him a copy of The Virtual Handshake. Pete read it on the airplane on his way home and has now posted a review of it on his blog, in which he talks about some of his realizations and subsequent actions after reading the book. He seemed to find a great deal of value in our “7 Keys to a Powerful Network” framework:
This is all covered in the first two chapters of the book, but I spend a lot of time on it here because it not only provides a framework for the other chapters, but when I applied this analysis on my own career it had a pretty profound effect on me. What I realized was that I had a bigger network than I thought I did, despite never actively “networking” per se. However, I had pretty pitiful diversity outside my employer of the last 14 years. These two chapters did what every good book should do: made me want to read the rest of it. [His emphasis, not mine.]
He then goes on to talk about LinkedIn in particular and how he has used it:
Continue reading Networking for Nerds – HP.com Chief Architect on Using LinkedIn
By Scott Allen, on June 19th, 2007%
 Here’s another smart way to use LinkedIn. On MyLinkedInPowerForum, Stan Relihan recently told the story of how he used LinkedIn to find a celebrity guest for his podcast:
Continue reading Using LinkedIn to Find Celebrity Guests
By Scott Allen, on June 3rd, 2007%
 My uncle once told me, “If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is its father.” So when a friend of mine from Europe contacted me to help him fill out his upcoming business trip to Los Angeles, of course I wanted to help, but I was thinking how I could go about the task with the minimal amount of effort.
LinkedIn to the rescue!
I posted the whole story as a guest post on Jason Alba’s JibberJobber blog, including step-by-step instructions on using LinkedIn to fill out your business trip.
Continue reading Using LinkedIn to Enhance Your Travels
By Scott Allen, on January 11th, 2007%
 Marc Freedman is one of those people who seems to have figured out how to make a network of 17,000+ contacts on LinkedIn actually workable. While I normally tend to discourage building a huge network by linking to people you don’t know, there are a few people for whom I can see that as a viable strategy, namely, a) professional networkers (like Marc, who runs the DallasBlue Network), recruiters, venture capitalists, and anyone else who are essentially deal brokers, and the bulk of their work is spent finding and making deals, and b) people trying to raise awareness of a mass-market product or service, like perhaps professional bloggers, or in Marc’s case, peer-to-peer file sharing software.
Continue reading Saving Axel – Marc Freedman’s Reason 165 Why LinkedIn Is Great
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