I attended a great local Tweetup last night in Orange County.  There were many people who I had communicated with on Twitter and finally had the chance to meet…the feeling was almost like seeing long lost friends!  I will save Tweetups for another blog post, because what interested me last night were how many people [...]

Today’s blog post is influenced by an article I read from the comments made by LinkedIn at the Social Recruiting Summit.  Let me further expand the argument for the case of LinkedIn.
Like many others who have learned to embrace LinkedIn, I did so when I was in transition.  I realized that I had not been [...]

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 [...]

We wake up and visit LinkedIn after booting up our computers.  And before we turn them off at night we are again checking in with LinkedIn.  For the many of us who consider ourselves “Power Users” of LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals is an integral part of our professional lives.  And because of [...]

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 [...]

There are so many features on LinkedIn, and so many ways to utilize them, that it always surprises me when people just don’t see the same value in features, like LinkedIn Answers, that I do.  I always hope, through this blog, that you will get more from not only LinkedIn but social networking as well. [...]

I have had the opportunity to engage with many lawyers recently, both in person as well as online through LinkedIn, and the sudden interest in social media that they seem to have has been surprising to me.  I had always envisioned the legal profession as more of an old-school, conservative group of people that would [...]

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 [...]

As more and more people start to realize the value of asking questions and providing answers on LinkedIn, it is a good time to think about the proper etiquette for participating in the Answers forum.  Now I am no Miss Proper, but there are a few things that I have noticed having experienced both ends [...]