Comments on: What is a LinkedIn “IDK/I Don’t Know”? And Why Should I Care? http://windmillnetworking.com/2008/07/11/what-is-a-linkedin-idk-i-dont-know/ Social Media Strategy for Businesses and Professionals Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: nealschaffer http://windmillnetworking.com/2008/07/11/what-is-a-linkedin-idk-i-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-3596 nealschaffer Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:29:45 +0000 http://linkedinquestions.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-3596 I agree that there is a problem in the nomenclature. I don't understand why LinkedIn just isn't more transparent and make it easy to accept, archive, block user, or report user for spam. Done! I agree that there is a problem in the nomenclature. I don't understand why LinkedIn just isn't more transparent and make it easy to accept, archive, block user, or report user for spam. Done!

]]> By: pantherjad http://windmillnetworking.com/2008/07/11/what-is-a-linkedin-idk-i-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-3595 pantherjad Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:36:42 +0000 http://linkedinquestions.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-3595 The problem is the language of the buttons, they need the following:<br><br>"Accept"<br>"Do not accept"<br>"Unsolicited spam"<br><br>I think most people will recognize the hard language of "unsolicited spam" and if you attempt to connect with them through some thin commonalities, they would merely not accept your invite. This is far better language as I think "archive" comes with the concept of taking up space or creating clutter and no one wants to do that. The problem is the language of the buttons, they need the following:

“Accept”
“Do not accept”
“Unsolicited spam”

I think most people will recognize the hard language of “unsolicited spam” and if you attempt to connect with them through some thin commonalities, they would merely not accept your invite. This is far better language as I think “archive” comes with the concept of taking up space or creating clutter and no one wants to do that.

]]> By: nealschaffer http://windmillnetworking.com/2008/07/11/what-is-a-linkedin-idk-i-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-903 nealschaffer Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:29:45 +0000 http://linkedinquestions.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-903 I agree that there is a problem in the nomenclature. I don't understand why LinkedIn just isn't more transparent and make it easy to accept, archive, block user, or report user for spam. Done! I agree that there is a problem in the nomenclature. I don't understand why LinkedIn just isn't more transparent and make it easy to accept, archive, block user, or report user for spam. Done!

]]> By: pantherjad http://windmillnetworking.com/2008/07/11/what-is-a-linkedin-idk-i-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-902 pantherjad Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:36:42 +0000 http://linkedinquestions.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-902 The problem is the language of the buttons, they need the following:<br><br>"Accept"<br>"Do not accept"<br>"Unsolicited spam"<br><br>I think most people will recognize the hard language of "unsolicited spam" and if you attempt to connect with them through some thin commonalities, they would merely not accept your invite. This is far better language as I think "archive" comes with the concept of taking up space or creating clutter and no one wants to do that. The problem is the language of the buttons, they need the following:

“Accept”
“Do not accept”
“Unsolicited spam”

I think most people will recognize the hard language of “unsolicited spam” and if you attempt to connect with them through some thin commonalities, they would merely not accept your invite. This is far better language as I think “archive” comes with the concept of taking up space or creating clutter and no one wants to do that.

]]> By: Darin Allen Newberry http://windmillnetworking.com/2008/07/11/what-is-a-linkedin-idk-i-dont-know/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Darin Allen Newberry Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:59:36 +0000 http://linkedinquestions.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-24 I will submit, for your consideration, that if you're just getting into this open networking arena, that you think twice about putting a little wussy statement at the bottom of your invitation, such as "please don't IDK me, don't diss me, don't get me in trouble with LinkedIn, etc." Would you put on your own résumé, "may not play well with others" or "I love mankind, it's people that suck" ???!!! This is like a cold sales call, people, and with some of your targets, you may only have one shot to make a favorable impression. Don't waste your maximum allotted characters for your sales pitch, your request to connect, with garbage like PLEASE DON'T IDK. That's so amateur, so self-defeating and so like what a "script kiddie" does, who doesn't have the chops, who doesn't know his programming or networking stuff. Send that boilerplate, that canned "professionally written" introduction from wherever you swiped it, to File 13, to your mental Trashcan, and leave it there. [Descending from soapbox now....] I will submit, for your consideration, that if you’re just getting into this open networking arena, that you think twice about putting a little wussy statement at the bottom of your invitation, such as “please don’t IDK me, don’t diss me, don’t get me in trouble with LinkedIn, etc.”

Would you put on your own résumé, “may not play well with others” or “I love mankind, it’s people that suck” ???!!!

This is like a cold sales call, people, and with some of your targets, you may only have one shot to make a favorable impression. Don’t waste your maximum allotted characters for your sales pitch, your request to connect, with garbage like PLEASE DON’T IDK. That’s so amateur, so self-defeating and so like what a “script kiddie” does, who doesn’t have the chops, who doesn’t know his programming or networking stuff. Send that boilerplate, that canned “professionally written” introduction from wherever you swiped it, to File 13, to your mental Trashcan, and leave it there.

[Descending from soapbox now....]

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