On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Badera <[email protected]> wrote:
> LinkedIn has taken measures from Day 1 to ensure people have some sort > of knowledge of and/or relationship to one another before creating the > connection. That's half its value. > Yeah, barely-casual co-workers in different departments that know your name, almost. Great job of them there. Perhaps it's just more of my uniqueness, but given Linked In as what it wants to be: - Stay informed about your contacts and industry - Find the people & knowledge you need to achieve your goals - Control your professional identity online I don't know ANYONE I'd want, or should, have a link to. Hrm, lets go take a look at the place, since I certainly haven't been there for at least a year or so. *pause* Well, they've thrown in a few toys and such. Still has the shyster hack feel (Oh, you want to do BLAH, well, that'll cost you some money....) that it had when it began, but it seems a lot more useful without paying now... I can even see profiles of people I've connected to. Heck, it even asked me for an import list of email address to search out people I know; before, it was all "find people, then talk to them elsewhere and suggest they link up with you...unless you've paid us money..." But, no, still feels like a Mutual Admiration Society to me; I can't imagine why anyone would put any credence in anything they see there. Also, a lot of employers (or potential clients) EXPECT to find you on > LinkedIn these days. I haven't landed any engagements via LinkedIn, > but I probably landed a sale or two after the client connected with me > on LinkedIn as part of their due diligence. Probably? Meaning they found you there, so you figure that assured that they'd hire you? Man, your clients have a lot more faith in a hack of a pay site than *I* do. :) I dunno, the place has the same cachet to me as having a hotmail.com address to do business with. But, if it works for you, you use it. :)
