Hi Barry, Most of Steve's stuff is relevant from a Social Networking perspective, and cover more than linkedIn, Steve gave this presentation at an event I hosted here on the 19th June, it really made people think http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/06/18/slouching-towards-intertwingularity/
I actually gain heaps from linkedIn and more recently Twitter :) Cheers, R On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Rae > > > check out www.acidlabs.org > > anything specific you're referring to of Stephens thinking? I mean, > Trib's right on top of the action when it comes to social media, > connecting people, etc ... and he's got some really good ideas and > thought provoking thoughts ... but is there anything specific relating > to Linkedin you're referring to? > > Mike, IMHO, you can have too much of a good thing. I'm not a gun for > hire like you are so I find things like Linked-In of limited use to go > nuts with. In fact I get more action tracing someone else's profile > (eg a potential employer) than building my own. I got berated recently > for letting my Facebook page languish with cobwebs. > > but there are a ton of registry/connecting spaces around. Pretty hard > to manage them all. It's also pretty hard to twitter / forum post / > blog / present / be seen at a sustainable high level (although Trib > seems to manage fine) - but I can just imagine if you stop people > would suspect you've fallen off a cliff or something. > > in the end, just like I found in the music industry, it always comes > down to people who's at the front of your mind that always gets the > gig. Talented people who aren't everywhere being seen get forgotten > easily. Typical supermarket checkout magazine fodder show the other > side of that coin (the talentless who are everywhere). > > meh, as always, it's not what you know, it's who. and if they hardly > know you and you get a call, they're getting desperate. > > my cynical 2c from seeing it all before > barry.b > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
