Dan Pontefract

APRIL 28, 2014

LinkedIn Skills. LinkedIn itself states the following: LinkedIn Skills & Endorsements helps you discover the expertise that other professionals have. The cynic in me believes this feature is simply an attempt by those at LinkedIn to accomplish their stated goal of building (and I would suggest selling) the world’s first economic graph. I don’t think the skills feature in LinkedIn is critical for success in your career. Useful or useless?

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Dan Pontefract

MAY 2, 2013

When it first came out I thought the LinkedIn Labs feature known as “ InMaps ” was really cool. I haven’t used it in a couple of years, so after two days where I was on four planes and in three cities, I decided to vegetate on the couch and take another look at my LinkedIn network … graphically speaking. Here’s what 1800 LinkedIn contacts look like and their relationship to me and each other. LinkedIn personal linkedin

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Euen Semple

JULY 21, 2019

I may lose out on the odd connection who relied on LinkedIn to keep up with my ideas and my activity but, to be honest, I am drifting away from that sort of work anyway. I've been in there pretty much from the start (user number 1400 and something) but it always felt like a chore, something I "should" be doing rather than a pleasure. A combination of the design of the site and the people who tend to spend more time there than on the rest of the web.

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Dan Pontefract

APRIL 2, 2013

On the afternoon of Sunday, March 24, 2013 I sent a generic email to my entire LinkedIn network. He was a true ‘guide on the side’ not a ‘parental drone with a megaphone’ Which brings me back to my decision to release an email to 1800 LinkedIn contacts informing them of the availability of Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization. And then on March 24th I sent a direct email to anyone in my LinkedIn network.

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Dan Pontefract

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To those that are beginning to utilize LinkedIn like Facebook, my apologies in advance, but I’ve been removing you from my network list. If you’re going to post a graphic (or get sucked into the idiotic hope of a larger email network by playing along) you might want to try a function known as ‘spell check’ Dan''s Related Posts: My 1800+ LinkedIn Network Graphically Mapped I Unfriended You On Facebook. social social media social networking facebook linkedin

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Euen Semple

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Linkedin has recently started to refer to meetings I have had with people in its email updates. I am pretty sure that I haven''t given access to my calendar and in some cases I am not even connected to the people in Linkedin. The only way I can see that it is doing this is from them having given it access to their calendars and then using those pesky little ics meeting invites.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 14, 2016

With Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn in the news, here’s a LinkedIn cheat sheet (from Leisure Jobs ) that will help you quickly create the perfect Linkedin profile, maximise your online visibility, build your contact list or get contacted about a new job.

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Euen Semple

MAY 23, 2012

Chris Brogan blogged recently about his decision to close his Linkedin account. I keep trying to get involved in the various Linkedin groups I am a member of but a few things drive me away. This got me thinking, yet again, about whether I should do the same. . I have been in Linked in for nine years, having been user number 1400 or so out of 100 million. It is useful for keeping up to date with the people I know's changes of circumstance but little more.

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Luis Suarez

MAY 6, 2014

Is that the main reason why I then went ahead and deleted my LinkedIn profile for good over a week ago? Will I survive as an independent trusted advisor on Social Business & Digital Transformation without having an active LinkedIn profile? Lots of questions looking for an answer, I suppose, but, for now, what I do know is that deleting my LinkedIn identity was an educated and informed personal choice.

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Euen Semple

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

I reckon people who say that Facebook is for friends and Linkedin is for business are missing out on the wider changes in attitude to work and business that the social web is enabling. Linkedin in, in contrast, is full of people in suits being "professional". The web is all about people. It''s about connections, relationships and energy. So is doing business. Energy and connections are what help you do your work. Facebook, for all its faults, is good at increasing both.

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Euen Semple

JANUARY 23, 2014

Linkedin has been acting very oddly recently. At one level this doesn''t matter, but if people who I don''t really know thought that I was spamming them through Linkedin, or even that I was desperately trying to increase my network, this could potentially reflect badly on me. When I mentioned this a while ago on Facebook and Linkedin a lot of people responded that thy too had experienced this problem.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

How many LinkedIn requests are you getting? LinkedIn reached 100 million users in March. It consistently grew in size and user value over the years, however now that everyone is piling on to the LinkedIn bandwagon, the value of LinkedIn personal connections and networks are decreasing at what seems like an accelerating pace. Until recently I looked at all of the LinkedIn invitations I received. It will make LinkedIn more valuable – to you, and to others.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

for Learning Professionals , I've created a couple of screen casts showing very quickly how I use LinkedIn to find expertise. As part of the Web 2.0 This is my first time using Jing. Let me know what you think. FYI - the Jing object does not appear in the RSS feed. Whoops, I clicked too fast on publish - I will try to get additional screen casts posted soon. By the way, I'm still looking for a free tool that will let me do this with someone else online at the same time.

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Dan Pontefract

JANUARY 26, 2019

Dan's Related Posts: LinkedIn Skills – Useful or Useless? leadership linkedin professional development soft skillsYou're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: There is no such thing as "soft skills." Why do companies keep using the term? Docking Employee Pay to Improve Their Skills is Dubious if not Dumb. For every fall there is a spring in our step. My Definition of Work and an Update on Book Two. Our Three Young Children Blog … Here’s Why.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 14, 2012

I was out in a rural area where Internet connectivity was a huge challenge, so was not able to blog, But now that I’m back in Kigali with a good Internet connection, expect to hear more about my experience teaching social media and the Networked NGO. Right before I left for this trip, Geri Stengel, shared a guest post about nonprofits and use of LinkedIn that was of interest to many folks. Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them – guest post by Geri Stengel.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 30, 2008

If you read my blog much, you know that I use LinkedIn quite a bit to help me find experts and expertise. You can see how I do this in my posts/screencasts LinkedIn Searching for Experts and Expertise and LinkedIn Answers to Get Help. And, I sometimes wonder what I did before I had LinkedIn as a resource. That's what LinkedIn tells you. But, after listening to Christian, I've changed the way I look at LinkedIn connections and how I treat invitations.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? How many of you actively use LinkedIn? How many of you get really high value from LinkedIn? - Now down to 2-5% I am continually surprised by this result ( Getting Value from LinkedIn ). I can't remember how I could get things done without LinkedIn.

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David Gurteen

JANUARY 19, 2009

By David Gurteen If you have not realized it already, LinkedIn has well and truly established itself as the de facto standard social networking platform for your professional life. LinkedIn is for professional connections. Slowly, I am connecting with all my professional contacts via LinkedIn and have over 1,000 established connections. LinkedIn limits the number of invites I can send to about 2,000 and with 15,000 members of this community that restricts me a little!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Yesterday I created a screen cast on LinkedIn for Finding Expertise. I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far. Today, I saw a post on our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals where someone said: I am currently trying to find a SME experienced with Moodle (a CMS/LMS) and WizIQ (synchronous web class technology).

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APRIL 15, 2013

In 2011 I wrote about The continuing devaluation of LinkedIn connections. Commenters on my post as well as LinkedIn’s local PR company let me know that you could in fact do that. The broader point I was making about the devaluation of LinkedIn connections still held, but the feature allowed me and others to sort through requests. I and many others get deluged with LinkedIn requests. I do hope LinkedIn reconsiders this very poor decision to remove this feature.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 21, 2009

I have to make sure that I get at least as much value from that 3-4 hours as I would from spending the same time using LinkedIn for Networking – and that's tough competition. Many events now publish the list such as the following: If they don't have a similar list and I can't find the event on Facebook or LinkedIn or somewhere else, then likely I won't attend. I choose people with names that are a bit more unique so that it will be more likely to find them on LinkedIn.

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David Gurteen

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

By David Gurteen There are a growing number of LinkedIn Groups many of them dedicated to KM. There is no KM directory but here are most of the Groups (in no particular order) that I have found: Gurteen Knowledge Community. KM Forum. Network of Intellectual Capital Professionals. actKM. CKO (Chief Knowledge Officers) Forum. For Knowledge Persons. KM Australia and Asia. KM Cluster. KM Edge. Knowledge Management. Knowledge Management Experts. Knowledge Management for Legal Professionals.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Now Davenport is at it again with a post (on his blog no less - I guess he doesn't want to be productive himself) - LinkedIn Is Not a Social Network. In this post, he says: I've been on LinkedIn for several years. Occasionally people I know have asked me through LinkedIn for access to my connections -- which an email notifies me of -- and I wonder why they didn't just send me an email themselves. I've met fantastic people through LinkedIn.

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Nigel Paine

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The Question: What do you look for when deciding upon a first class graduate career? The overwheming answer is here: 50% voted for a good training and developement proposition

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Clark Quinn

JULY 30, 2008

The question was: What is your assessment of the relative benefits of pure blogging vs LinkedIn Answers and other social networking platform-based discussion venues? I consider LinkedIn Answers to be quite a different animal. The way I use LinkedIn Answers is to ask specific questions (never open ended or partially thought out the way I do in a blog) that I want to get specific answers or find people with expertise who I can't seem to find by searching LinkedIn normally.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 19, 2009

I went through examples similar to LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers to show the basics of how LinkedIn works. I also discussed being more or less open as a LinkedIn Networker: My LinkedIn Open Connection Approach. The earlier presenter had talked about LinkedIn and someone in the audience asked for a show of hands for people who have got business through LinkedIn. Let's compare that to LinkedIn.

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David Gurteen

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

By David Gurteen The Gurteen Knowledge Community Group on LinkedIn has grown from 2,076 members last month to 2,184 today and looks to be the most active of all the KM LinkedIn groups. You can join LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/reg/join and the Gurteen Knowledge Community Group here : [link

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David Gurteen

MARCH 25, 2011

By David Gurteen The Gurteen Knowledge Community Group on LinkedIn has grown by over 100 members from 2,184 members last month to 2,289 today and is still one most active of all the KM LinkedIn groups. You can join LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/reg/join and the Gurteen Knowledge Community Group here : [link

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 19, 2011

Some nice data on the demographics of LinkedIn has just been compiled, shortly after it has reached 100 million users. LinkedIn demographics and statistics – 2011. LinkedIn members are predominantly male, most notably in Middle East (77%), Asia (69%), and Africa (65%), but is still 55% in North America. * I was one of the first 10,000 people on LinkedIn , and have closely followed its rise until its recent blockbuster IPO.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 19, 2009

Hot List - May 8, 2009 to May 15, 2009 Once again, used eLearning Learning to generate a list of the best from last week. The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. The Truth About Twitter - Social Enterprise Blog , May 11, 2009 Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators - Don't Waste Your Time , May 9, 2009 Twitter and Webinars - eLearning Technology , May 14, 2009 Developing a PLE Using Web 2.0 Tools - Don't Waste Your Time , May 10, 2009

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David Gurteen

JANUARY 4, 2011

By David Gurteen I have made the Gurteen Knowledge Community Group on LinkedIn an open group. To my mind, LinkedIn have done an extremely poor design job here. . You can join LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/reg/join. The major advantage of this is that discussions are now indexed by search engines and anyone on the web can read the discussions. It is also now possible to Tweet interesting discussions.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 10, 2011

The reality is that LinkedIn has been used as a proxy expert network by many for some time now. He presumed that there were alerts on LinkedIn to identify when people left so that they could be approached. These alerts are not provided by LinkedIn, but can fairly easily be created using LinkedIn APIs. A few quick thoughts on the implications: * LinkedIn could provide an expert network service (which I am sure they have at least considered and could be planning). *

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David Gurteen

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By David Gurteen The Gurteen Knowledge Group on LinkedIn is now the central discussion forum for the Gurteen Knowledge Community. Over the passt month, it has grown by over 100 people to 1,308 members. It's a great place to post questions and slowly more discussion and interaction is taking place on the forum. If you would like to join then you can register here

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David Gurteen

JULY 27, 2010

I have moved its activity over to the Gurteen Knowledge Community group on Linkedin. If you are not familiar with LinkedIn or not a member, could I encourage you to take a look. Also, please do connect with me, out of the 17,000 members of my community who receive my knowledge letter about only about 2,500 of you are connected to me personally and only about 1,000 are members of the LinkedIn Community group

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David Gurteen

DECEMBER 23, 2010

By David Gurteen I have made the Gurteen Knowledge Community Group on LinkedIn an open group. To my mind, LinkedIn have done an extremely poor design job here. . You can join LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/reg/join. The major advantage of this is that discussions are now indexed by search engines and anyone on the web can read the discussions. It is also now possible to Tweet interesting discussions.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As a result of my recent change in my Approach to LinkedIn Connections , I've actually met quite a few people who read my blog, but I don't believe had ever commented. They were comfortable connecting with me via LinkedIn and since it offers mutual value it was worth the effort. However, for some of my primary uses Finding Expertise via LinkedIn and LinkedIn Answers to Get Help , it makes more sense to connect to people who it will be good to be connected with in the future (PANs).

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David Gurteen

OCTOBER 22, 2010

By David Gurteen The Gurteen Knowledge Group on LinkedIn is the central discussion forum for the Gurteen Knowledge Community. There are now just over 1,200 members. If you would like to join then you can register here. Please take the time to register and join the conversations and help turn what is still really just a network into a community

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David Gurteen

AUGUST 20, 2010

By David Gurteen I talked about the Gurteen Knowledge Group on LinkedIn recently and how I was making it the central discussion forum for the Gurteen Knowledge Community. And if you would like to connect with me personally on LinkedIn please do so Since then, over 120 people have registered and we are now up to 1,120 members or thereabouts. A few new discussions have started also. If you are not a member, you can find more information here and register.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 22, 2011

LinkedIn have just announced they have reached 100 million members worldwide. LinkedIn– and also shared this infographic with key statistics.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 30, 2008

The question was: What is your assessment of the relative benefits of pure blogging vs LinkedIn Answers and other social networking platform-based discussion venues? I consider LinkedIn Answers to be quite a different animal. The way I use LinkedIn Answers is to ask specific questions (never open ended or partially thought out the way I do in a blog) that I want to get specific answers or find people with expertise who I can't seem to find by searching LinkedIn normally.

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MARCH 27, 2011

Last week LinkedIn reached a significant milestone: 100 million users. On the occasion LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman sent out an email to the first 100,000 users thanking them for being early adopters. You can look it up yourself in your LinkedIn profile URL; it is the number after “id=”. LinkedIn seemed to me to be one of the most promising newcomers. As it happens this model closer to LinkedIn than any of the other major social networking platforms of today.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Note from Beth: We are seeing more and more nonprofits use LinkedIn for organizational goals – from its powerful board recruitment tool to setting up company pages (see Ten Must Follow Nonprofits on LinkedIn ). How Your Nonprofit Can Make the Most of Its LinkedIn Profile – Guest Post by Victoria Michelson. As most of you probably know, LinkedIn—the networking site for professionals—expanded its scope to include company pages back in 2010.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 8, 2013

I tweeted it, G+''d it and "updated" on LinkedIn (what do we call that anyway?).I date, ut''s been retweeted twice, had one like on LinkedIn and over on G+, has sparked two conversations in two different communities with one now up to 22 comments. . So this morning, I had a not-so-random thought. Inspired by a comment made by Eugene Eric Kim - the thought went like this: .

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