Scot Herrick asks is LinkedIn useful? What do you get out LinkedIn? What would it take to make it more useful? I get only a little of value.  When helping a friend conduct a job search recently it was helpful in figuring out who to introduce him to. Fin...

[2007-01-09 12:09:00]

I know, LinkedIn has been around for a while. I was one of the early sign-ups. I felt I needed to when some of my business development counterparts were sending me invitations. But for almost 2 years, it's been in a malaise for me. I'm not an active user ...

[2007-02-19 04:17:00]

...but you gotta be willing to jump in and swim if you want to catch IT.A few weeks ago I was linked in to an attorney blawger that I believe all solo practitioners and big firm lawyers should closely be paying attention to. His name is Charles "Chuck" Ne...

[2006-10-25 14:07:35]

We often try to bring our portfolio companies together to network and learn. So this week about 25 Bessemer companies gathered at Spago's in Palo Alto for 7 hours to share best practices for search engine marketing (i.e. buying keywords) and optimiza...

[2007-02-07 01:18:00]

If you notice on my side bar to the right, you will see a cute little widget that is hooked up into my LinkedIn Profile. This was created by Linkedinabox and I thought I would give it a test drive. It allows users to view your profile without having to ...

[2007-02-22 11:10:21]

If you notice on my side bar to the right, you will see a cute little widget that is hooked up into my LinkedIn Profile. This was created by Linkedinabox and I thought I would give it a test drive. It allows users to view your profile without having to ...

[2007-02-22 11:10:21]

Last week Jeremiah asked people to share their media consumption diet. There were a number of responses. At the time that I responded,only Chris Saad and Brian Keith mentioned that they used the major social networks as a source of communication. Twitter ...

[2007-02-27 23:06:00]

The LinkedIn Fast Generator I created is proving to be one of the most successful "features" of this site, and is bringing me into contact with lots of extremely smart networkers in the LinkedIn community, and my contact list and network is grow...

[2007-03-01 09:38:25]

The LinkedIn Fast Generator I created is proving to be one of the most successful "features" of this site, and is bringing me into contact with lots of extremely smart networkers in the LinkedIn community, and my contact list and network is grow...

[2007-03-01 09:38:25]

The LinkedIn Fast Generator I created is proving to be one of the most successful "features" of this site, and is bringing me into contact with lots of extremely smart networkers in the LinkedIn community, and my contact list and network is grow...

[2007-03-01 09:38:25]

The LinkedIn Fast Generator I created is proving to be one of the most successful "features" of this site, and is bringing me into contact with lots of extremely smart networkers in the LinkedIn community, and my contact list and network is grow...

[2007-03-01 09:38:25]

The LinkedIn Fast Generator I created is proving to be one of the most successful "features" of this site, and is bringing me into contact with lots of extremely smart networkers in the LinkedIn community, and my contact list and network is grow...

[2007-03-01 09:38:25]

A newly unemployed relative recently asked me the merits of LinkedIn.com compared with CareerBuilder and Monster.While it’s true all three can be used as an online resume site, LinkedIn is more of a networking destination, while Career Builder and Monst...

[2007-03-05 15:00:00]

It was good while it lasted, and provided needed functionality to LinkedIn, and was widely supported by open networkers on the social networking platform. During a routine check of functionality I discovered that the "get" method of form complet...

[2007-03-28 01:52:32]

It was good while it lasted, and provided needed functionality to LinkedIn, and was widely supported by open networkers on the social networking platform. During a routine check of functionality I discovered that the "get" method of form complet...

[2007-03-28 01:52:32]

It was good while it lasted, and provided needed functionality to LinkedIn, and was widely supported by open networkers on the social networking platform. During a routine check of functionality I discovered that the "get" method of form complet...

[2007-03-28 01:52:32]

It was good while it lasted, and provided needed functionality to LinkedIn, and was widely supported by open networkers on the social networking platform. During a routine check of functionality I discovered that the "get" method of form complet...

[2007-03-28 01:52:32]

It was good while it lasted, and provided needed functionality to LinkedIn, and was widely supported by open networkers on the social networking platform. During a routine check of functionality I discovered that the "get" method of form complet...

[2007-03-28 01:52:32]

Almost daily I'm encountering situations that are blog worthy - if only from a "consumer - give some feedback or warn others" kind of way.  Whether it's the jerk sales guy at a vw dealership who (shall remain nameless) completely insulted me ...

[2007-03-29 08:03:19]

I wrote about Harmony over a year ago… it’s absolutely criminal that something this interesting couldn’t get developed and into customer hands more quickly. Dan has a good post about this innovative product project. SAP doesn’...

[2007-04-23 19:22:10]

Yesterday I decided to join the professional social networking site LinkedIn because I had come across an old acquaintance who belongs and I couldn’t view his complete profile unless I joined.  That was a motivator though I still haven’t con...

[2007-04-24 18:53:36]

Conversation Agent Valeria Maltoni asks Is LinkedIn Working for you? and poses at the end of the article a very basic, yet very important, question that requires some thought and conversation:Is LinkedIn about connections or is it about people?My response...

[2007-04-24 21:37:31]