Lena, Thank you for a wonderful series (last entry appended in full below) detailing your experience, albeit dreadful, with LinkedIn. Like any product, your...
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Lena Katz
Lena_Katz
Feb 19, 2008 8:26 pm
hey marc, not dreadful, just...underwhelming. Remember, my point was just to see what all the fuss was about, and whether it was worth its ostensible...
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Lena Katz
Lena_Katz
Feb 19, 2008 8:31 pm
Y'know, there's one thing I never mentioned in my LinkedIn blog, which made me particularly well qualified to run my experiment...and which inspired a lot of...
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Andrew Moffat
amoffat_8
Feb 19, 2008 9:11 pm
Lena has really opened the discussion that many of us have been waiting for. I am tired of being asked to build my network, only to have the "site" tell me...
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Lena Katz
Lena_Katz
Feb 20, 2008 1:29 am
Hello all, I'm the proud new executive editor of LAX Magazine--yup, the official mag of Los Angeles International Airport. Rather than guess what editorial...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 20, 2008 9:56 am
(Are your friends and LinkedIn contacts ready to supercharge their LinkedIn networking? If so, invite them to our TopLinkedIn forum here at ...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 22, 2008 12:12 am
Even more DallasBlue LinkedIn groups have been added. We have almost 50 now at http://MyLinkFamily.com . Marc By Networking Type: *...
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nouveau6996
Feb 24, 2008 4:17 am
My name is Gene Schenberg. I am an Open Networker with a mere 350 connections and looking to grow. Anyone in this group is free to send me in invite. I'm also...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 24, 2008 4:32 am
LinkedIn cans its Superman http://valleywag.com/359860/linkedin-cans-its-superman Has LinkedIn lost its soul to growth? ...
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Danny R. Faught
sw_alchemist
Feb 25, 2008 11:54 pm
Social networking must have come of age, because we're starting to get cartoons about it. Here's one from a favorite comic of mine. ...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 26, 2008 9:41 am
Danny, Great comic, thanks. Unfortunately the poll there doesn't even mention LinkedIn. On LinkedIn no one can hear you kill a connection. It just disappears ...
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Danny R. Faught
sw_alchemist
Feb 26, 2008 4:41 pm
... Strange that they would mention eBay (social networking?) but not LinkedIn. ... Ooh, good point! When I retire I'm going to follow up on my dream to build...
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Marilyn Magallanes
marilynmagal...
Feb 27, 2008 3:03 am
MyLink500 Top LinkedIn NetworkersHi Marc, Hate to sound plum ignorant but I do not understand what this mean? <SNIP>"But there is a clue. The de-connected...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 27, 2008 8:50 am
Marilyn, There is a natural progression in LinkedIn. When you upload your contacts they are LinkedIn Contacts (displayed in the Other Contacts tab -...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 27, 2008 8:14 pm
Bill Gates is coming to your LinkedIn home page to promote charitable causes. I did something similar two years ago. I created a Linked4Kids campaign that...
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Doc Farmer
docfarmer9999
Feb 27, 2008 8:23 pm
Yeah, but he's not open to InMails or Connections. Which is a bummer, because he's got to be three points higher than me (I am, after all, a 96th percentile...
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Danny R. Faught
sw_alchemist
Feb 27, 2008 8:33 pm
Interesting that Bill used to be on LinkedIn a few years ago (with just one connection, obviously a gatekeeper), but then dropped off. LinkedIn must have...
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Lonny Gulden
lgulden55347
Feb 27, 2008 9:12 pm
Marc, I think you could have boiled it down to your last three words! Lonny J. Gulden Chief Connections Officer™ Deep Valley Consulting LLC 952.829.7828...
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Daniel Ilies
ilies_d
Feb 28, 2008 12:58 pm
New Linkedin UI....hmmm it looks nice... maybe :) but could's find a link with "swich to classic UI" (like in yahoo :) Usually I'm not that conservative but,...
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Daniel Ilies
ilies_d
Feb 28, 2008 2:32 pm
"There was an unexpected problem that prevented us from completing your request." :) ...same errors...only now looks better we can even see videos in our home...
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Bruce Gilmore
dadhap2007
Feb 28, 2008 3:02 pm
LinkedIn Tailored for the iPhoneBy Clint Boulton2008-02-22 Article Views: 1006Article Rating: / 2 Poor Best LinkedIn Tailored for the iPhone ( Page 1 of 2...
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Danny R. Faught
sw_alchemist
Feb 28, 2008 3:12 pm
Nice! m.linked.com also works from the Openwave browser on my LG phone, and I can preview how it works using Firefox on my desktop. -- Danny R. Faught Tejas...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 28, 2008 10:18 pm
Yes, same network problems. Only difference, they now always revert to the home page ... which means Microsoft videos. See my previous post on the deal with...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 28, 2008 10:18 pm
The Mobile app is just a simple version of LinkedIn. It took them 5 years to come out with it. Very lame. Still, it *is* a way to avoid the advertising and...
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Doc Farmer
docfarmer9999
Feb 28, 2008 10:23 pm
I dunno, I kinda like it myself. It's much easier to read on the phone now than it used to be. From: TopLinkedIn@yahoogroups.com...
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sharontrudgett
Feb 28, 2008 10:53 pm
Mr Feedman Your postings always manage to keep me entertained.... I myself am counting down the days when we get a Status box on the page so we can put things...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 29, 2008 6:32 am
My Sharona, Mr. Freedman? Puh-leeze, just call me your Daddy. I absolutely agree. I have written previously about the silly widgets. the useless News on the...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 29, 2008 6:32 am
That's Inbox messages, not connections, your link sluts. At least LI now displays those by page so it's not onerous to display. But don't ask me the logic of...
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Marc Freedman
fvision
Feb 29, 2008 6:32 am
Have you send the new LI Twitter feature - "What are you working on?" Here is my current entry: Marc is working on clicking & praying for LinkedIn's soul...
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sharontrudgett
Feb 29, 2008 8:00 am
Ha ha Sorry I just felt the sudden urge to be formal... from now on it's Daddy all the way.... Now beware of the application I've built for LI that allows...