Hi, I have no experience of using LinkedIn But, I'm a new consultant who is always looking for work, so I guess it's like your photography situation in a way, I take it you are hoping that people you know who need a photographer will "link you in" to people who need some photographs taken - at least thats how the marketing spiel puts it.
Now I kind of hate social networking sites such as facebook so I don't have a linkedin profile, but I have been thinking about making one recently for work hunting purposes, and based on what you say here it doesn't seem like it will magically get my phone ringing off the hook, apart from perhaps from time wasting agencies who probably troll around in there. I had no idea there even was a paid option for it, which kind of makes me hate the idea of it even more if it bait and switches on you like that. >From my experience of working for companies that have mass user websites, minor tweaks in the search algorithms and post scoring methods can change the behaviour of the whole site for all the users in quite drastic ways. The increase of traffic you are seeing could well be down to under the hood changes in linkedin's code, which will be an ever evolving lifeform being tweaked by programmers all the time, rather than just at user visible site upgrade times. I agree its a bit off topic for the group when it comes to mac discussion, but I guess a large proportion of us here are creative freelance or consultants so I think a short discussion of linkedin ...or alternatives might be of use to many of us Toby On Aug 17, 11:05 am, Jonathan Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings. > A smidgen off topic, perhaps, but not entirely irrelevant to our usual > discussions: > > I have been a freebie LinkedIn user for a long time and although it has been > interesting and enlightening to expand my network, so far I haven't received > any real business traffic from it. However, recently, and I don't know > whether it's because I've reached some kind of critical mass of connections > or what, suggested connections are becoming more and more relevant to the > line of work I'm in. Hence, I am thinking of upgrading to one of its paid > packages. I was wondering whether anyone in the group has experience of > using the paid LinkedIn service and what they think of it. By all means if > you'd like to get in touch do so via emailing me at the address below so we > don't clog up the SMUG email with off topic discussion. I'd really be > grateful for anyone who has positive or negative feedback to offer on > LinkedIn to get in touch. > Much obliged. > > Jonathan Brady > Photographer > tel: +44(0) 7931 541 489 > web:www.jonathanbrady.net > email: [email protected], [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
