The inspiration for this blog post comes from someone I consider to be a true thought leader in social media, someone who I had a chance to finally meet in person recently: Jeremiah Owyang.  He wrote a blog post back in 2008 entitled “Stop Fondling the Hammer, and Focus on the House,” and I didn’t [...]

I am amazed by how many small businesses do not utilize social media to the maximum.  Think about it: social media, like the internet two decades ago, allows any business to compete with larger, more established entities.  Come on, what are you waiting for?
What further amazes me is how few small businesses maximize their presence [...]

LinkedIn has been around for many years now, and maybe some of you created an account in the early days of 2004 like I did and just forgot about it, including the password.  Then, later on you created a second account.  Or maybe you used your business email as your primary email address and no [...]

If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will soon: the dreaded request for a LinkedIn Recommendation from a former co-worker or employee that you may not want to give one to.  Why?  Well, every time you make a LinkedIn Recommendation, it appears on your LinkedIn Profile and becomes part of your LinkedIn Brand.  Perhaps [...]

I will start out this post by letting you know that I am not in any way nor have ever been a recruiter or a headhunter.  While I have been a hiring manager for previous companies, my experience in being able to write this post comes from helping out many recruiters looking for candidates on [...]

As you probably already know, I am very active on LinkedIn as a LinkedIn Open Networker or LinkedIn LION.  I accept all LinkedIn invitations, and I respond to each invitation with asking my new connections how I might be able to help them.  I often get the following response, which I again received just this [...]

It’s no surprise that jobseekers flocked to LinkedIn with this past recession after realizing that most recruiters were already heavy LinkedIn users and were using the social networking platform to find new talent.  So many jobseekers are utilizing LinkedIn that some are calling it less of a professional networking site and more of a jobseeker’s [...]

As the year comes to a close, it is time to look back, before looking forward to 2010, at all of the informative and insightful blog posts that the world has created in the past 365 days concerning LinkedIn.  LinkedIn itself, while beginning 2009 at a slow start, ended the year announcing 50 million members, [...]

I finally got access to the new LinkedIn user interface yesterday, so I thought I would write up a quick comparison to the old user interface and conclude with my thoughts on whether or not this is a step forward for the LinkedIn user.  I already mentioned in a previous post that the new LinkedIn [...]

Today’s blog post has been contributed by Lisa Hendrickson, the owner of Call That Girl! (CTG) based out of Minneapolis, MN.  CTG does local and nationwide telephone supported computer repair/troubleshooting.

My personal experience with using LinkedIn Groups has been more than exciting and has also brought me to my first “eye-opening” attention grabbing numbers of making [...]