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Books About LinkedIn

I’m on LinkedIn — Now What???
By Jason Alba

You’ve signed up for LinkedIn, set up your basic profile, and connected with a few people you know. Now what? It’s the question nearly every LinkedIn user asks. Business isn’t going to just start rolling in magically. There are still some things you have to do to get LinkedIn working for you. This book will show you how, step by step.

LinkedIn for Recruiting
By Bill Vick and Des Walsh

LinkedIn has received numerous awards as one of the top career sites on the web. For recruiters it is one of the best sources of passive candidates, as well as a great source of referrals. In this book, over 40 recruitment industry leaders, authors, consultants, Big Billers, Human Resource and Staffing professionals and expert LinkedIn users share their secrets of LinkedIn success. The book will show recruiters, sourcers and others in the recruitment industry how they can make more effective use of the various tools and resources within LinkedIn. The book includes access to audio interviews plus several hundred dollars of bonuses.

The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
By Steven Tylock

If you want to just jump right in and start flexing your LinkedIn muscles, as it were, let this book be your guide. Packed with advice, insightful questions, and exercises, you learn what to do – and why you should be doing it. When completed, you’ll be prepared to find, get found, and network your way to success with LinkedIn.

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The LinkedIn Blogosphere

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Linked Things
30/08/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
If you haven’t guessed, I’m working through the lyrics of the video – because in order to make it in, I really did have to think highly of each favorite thing;-) This line gives me a chance to reflect… By the numbers..

Is LinkedIn Broken… or is it just a TOOL?
30/08/10 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I read this post a few days ago: My Problem with LinkedIn . The author ( Tom Nixon ) presents the idea that it's not really “the social network's fault,” it's really our fault because we are using it wrong. Tom suggests there a..

Wonderful Coworkers Recommending
27/08/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Some skeptics seem to think that LinkedIn recommendations are not worthwhile, but to me – they’re golden. As I mentioned last post – if you’re connecting to people you know, the things they write will absolutely supp..

What do recruiters think about LinkedIn?
25/08/10 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I'm always intrigued to see how a specific group uses or thinks about a tool. Job seekers think about LinkedIn a certain way, while wondering if their target audience (hiring managers, business owners, recruiters, HR) will find them and se..

Warm Friendly Tweeters
24/08/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
I’m new to the twitter world, but definitely enjoy seeing good tweets coming through LinkedIn. If you’re connecting to people you know, the twitter connection makes it easy to keep everyone aware of what’s going on. But yo..

LinkedIn for iPhone 3.2: Where Are They Now?
20/08/10 The LinkedIn Blog
Keeping track of what your connections are doing professionally is one of the most important things we offer to our members at LinkedIn.   We’re excited to announce LinkedIn for iPhone 3.2, because we’ve made it easier than ever to stay up..

Groups With Nice Members
19/08/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Group functionality has come a long way on LinkedIn since the early days, and one of the aspects that is a must for successful group interactions and livelihood is the attitude of members. Let’s look at some of the ways it might be on..

QvQ: Quality vs. Quantity: The Great LinkedIn Debate
18/08/10 I'm On LinkedIn - Now What???
I just saw a blog post by VirtualJobCoach (the first competitor I had with JibberJobber, and some very good people ) titled “ The Trouble with LinkedIn: Bigger is not better ” In the post they argue that if you get a bigger net..

Any Instances of Fake LinkedIn Email?
16/08/10 The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
I’ve been reading on some supposed email that uses the look of LinkedIn invitations to get by spam/threat filters. Have you actually seen any?!? Not from LinkedIn Clearly LinkedIn is not in any way shape or form connected to these mes..

New and improved moderation features for LinkedIn Groups
13/08/10 The LinkedIn Blog
Since its roll out at the end of June, the new groups interface has already significantly increased member participation, measured by user comments and visits to Groups. We’ve also been listening to user feedback from many of our active gr..