I had one of those social networking moments where a stranger at Starbucks introduced himself to me after seeing the book on my table was Dan Schawbel’s Me 2.0, the best-selling book on personal branding.  The fact that this gentlemen even knew the book and had read it was surprising.  The fact that he was teaching [...]

After networking with several great people over the last several days, which have in essence been conversations that seem more like a veritable cross-breeding of ideas, I believe that more and more people are starting to see the potential value of meeting new people on LinkedIn. Now, just because you are open to doing [...]

Yesterday I wrote my own definition concerning what a social media expert is, so today I wanted to look specifically at what I feel makes a LinkedIn expert.  Recently I was named a LinkedIn expert on the site of the LinkedIn and Social Media Training Company Integrated Alliance’s blog post.  And on that same post [...]

On an average day, I receive an invite or two to join some sort of LinkedIn Group.  It is only natural since I have so many connections as a LinkedIn Open Networker (=LION).  Since you can easily send out invites to join a group when you create it, it’s obvious that I am a common [...]

This is a funny question, and I think it is only asked because LinkedIn has not done a good job branding this functionality in their user interface.  Let me explain in more detail.
Branding problem #1: LinkedIn Applications were introduced on October 28, 2008.  The Reid Hoffman authored text in the introductory article mentioned nine applications [...]