LinkedIn has value. Like any other tool, it depends on how you use it. Also, networking, on linkedin or stackoverflow or in person, almost never presents its value up front -- but you slog it out, and a year or two or three down the line, you find yourself overwhelmed with work, opportunities, offers.
And yep, Peter, there are people who have gone there to see not just my work history but my Q&A and group interactions, and what former clients and colleagues have had to say about me. How is that different than asking you for a set of references and calling them? In the up to $1M/project consulting world, it's almost 100% word of mouth, and people have a hard time giving 5-figure deposit checks to people they don't know and haven't worked with before. LinkedIn has made that easier. It's not a panacea. It's not a silver bullet. But, I'm doing 2-3x as much consulting business this year as last, despite the recession ... so something's working :) ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Cerebrus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Me either. I prefer this form of "intellectual networking" (as on this > Google Group and on StackOverflow) rather than social networking. Even > here, I do not use my real name, preferring instead to let my moniker > do the talking. One day, though, I will probably come out of the > shadows. ;-) > > On Oct 13, 11:16 pm, Peter Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Andrew Badera <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > You're not already on LinkedIn C? >> >> So, no, random psuedo-public networking isn't my cup of tea either, though I >> do have some sort of account there, I think. If it hasn't been autodeleted. >> >
