As God is my witness, I will never join LinkedIn.

However, your suggestions make more sense than maintaining something on the
SkSp wiki. We could simply have a link to the LinkedIn group you were
mentioning.


On 8 May 2013 10:21, Mak Kolybabi <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-05-08 10:11, Justin Lacko wrote:
> > Mak: The benefits are twofold - one, we create a simple database of our
> > members so people if people need help with something specific, they know
> > who to go to. Second, I think it's a good way to entice people to come
> > check us out. It's nice to put faces and individuals to an organization.
>
> You could subscribe to LinkedIn, create a group[1], and publicize it. I
> have no
> interest whatsoever in a SkullSpace-specific thing, even if it got used, I
> expect people would let their info lapse. Backing this with LinkedIn gets
> you
> several benefits:
>
> - Only have to add/update your info in one spot, and you have an incentive
> to do
>   so (employment)
> - Has avatars, so you can put faces to the organization
> - Has a large list of existing skills, it's easier to answer yes/no than
> produce
>   a list of what you can do
> - Cross-referenceable, so you can find someone who has the skill to answer
> a
>   question
> - Useful for employment, nobody is going to trawl our wiki for recruits
> - Can be exported as a resume, once again exploiting the fact that the
> info is
>   in one spot
>
> [1] http://learn.linkedin.com/group-management/
>
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