+10, same here. It all depends on what your purpose is. ASB is also very much on point. You build your profile and contacts/connections when you don't need it, because you never know when things will change and you might need it - if you don't have it and you need it, it's too late. And, for anyone who changes positions, it helps you to be able to maintain contacts. In some companies, when you give your notice, they walk you out the dor, with no further access to your %work% email. Suggestion to tie BOTH your work email and your personal email to your LinkedIn profile so that you can always maintain access easily. You can limit what emails you get from LinkedIn fairly easily. If get an invite from someone I don't know, I simply ignore or deny it. End of story.
I will say that once you get a substantial number of contacts, it is QUITE interesting to scroll through the "people you may know". It is also interesting to see how many hops Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and Kevin Bacon are from you... What was that about 6 degrees of separation? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA www.eaglemds.com [email protected] ________________________________________ From: William Robbins [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Did LinkedIn change? Interestingly I've ad almost the opposite experience. I can honestly say I gained my current position entirely via LinkedIn. BUt like most things you have to work at it. You get out what you put into it and I'm very selective about who I connect with. Easy enough to deny requests. - WJR On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:18, Daniel Rodriguez <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I hate LinkedIn. :( I had signed up for it, the free account. But right after that, I started to get invites from people I didn't know. Hated it. It was not beneficial to me. I just feel it rude that someone wants to invite me to be part of their group, when I don't know them. Lately, I have been getting invites from recruiters, who I don't know, and then they want me to go to their sites and fill out job apps. Waste of my time. My .02 worth. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM, William Robbins <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks for that link ASB! I hadn't been given that option from LI before. Interestingly they want to charge me a tad more than $5/mo...but then I'm not surprised they like you better. :) - WJR On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:38, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A - You can invite anyone you want for FREE, as long as any of the following apply: --- 1 - They are no more than 3 hops away from you (and they are open to invitations) --- 2 - They share a group with you (and allow connections/invitations through the group) --- 3 - You have their email address (and they are open to invitations) --- 4 - Both of you are OpenLink members (and they accept connections/invitations via OpenLink) -- This one is not exactly free If they are not open to invitation, then none of the points above matter. B - You can get a cheaper membership than the set they readily advertise: Personal Plus - http://www.linkedin.com/personalplus ---- This gets you access to OpenLink, plus a few other perks, for only $5/mo While LI doesn't allow you to just reach anyone directly, unlike FB, it does facilitate having people introduce you. This is another method that can get you to someone who is not a direct connection, and for whom you do not have an email address. (There's also InMail, but that costs money) ASB (My Bio via About.Me<http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hey Folks, It's been a while since I was on LinkedIn. Yesterday I was looking for a past colleague, found him, but could not send him an invite as this person was "out of network". I was able to join another past colleague since we had someone in common as part of our network. I was able to send the past colleague a message, if I signed-up for at $24/month "upgrade". Since I don't use LinkedIn except for occasional professional contacts, it's hardly worth it. I thought when I first signed up with LinkedIn I could invite anyone to be part of my network. Maybe I'm wrong and missing something. 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