Comments on: A Second Life for LinkedIn

By: Windenberger

Windenberger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:59:23 +0000

I am still getting ready for my first life on LinkedIn. First it took me over a year before I finally signed up in May 2006. Then I just used LinkedIn every few months. Now that I see linkedIn profiles coming up in search engines in front of me for my target keywords such as my last name Windenberger, I am finally spending more time on the site and participating. And it looks like I am about to get my first piece of business as a result; someone wants to get my assistance with the Unconditional Freedom Process.

By: Jessica Johns Pool

Jessica Johns Pool — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:17:19 +0000

I too had slowed my participation on LinkedIn until I got busy on Facebook. Now, I use LinkedIn and Twitter for my professional contacts/conversations and Facebook for friends, and spend about the same amount of time on all three. It’s an easy way to keep information that’s too personal out of my work world. There’s a bit of overlap in my contacts, of course, but no one ever seems to want to cross those lines.

By: Mike O'Toole

Mike O'Toole — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:28:42 +0000

Susan, I agree on the value of groups. In fact, it was taking the leap to join a few groups (and the subsequent new and Q&A that I monitored) that really began to crystallize LinkedIn’s new value.

By: Susan Brown

Susan Brown — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:09:05 +0000

Another useful area of LinkedIn is the Groups–I joined several groups, including my Northwestern University alumni group, and have found Groups a source of good information as well as a great way to connect and communicate through this vehicle.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:39:24 +0000

A “normal” adoption pattern with new communication technologies.
Thanks for the anecdotes.

By: Chris Perry

Chris Perry — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:18:13 +0000

LinkedIn is one of the most powerful personal branding, career search and career development tools on the web today, not to mention one of the better business launch and development tools.
I have launched two web organizations on LinkedIn, found my job, established principal business partnerships, established my own personal brand, you name it, I have done it using LinkedIn.
I would recommend it to any professional, and the beauty of it is, LinkedIn keeps growing and getting better.

By: Mike O'Toole

Mike O'Toole — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:57:29 +0000

THanks for the great comments. Mario, I’ll definitely follow you. I’m @motoole1, for anyone who wants to follow me.
Chris, I’ve left a comment on your great question about tracking ethics (a topic woefully unrepresented on the twitter stream).

By: Mario Sundar

Mario Sundar — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:35:25 +0000

Hi Mike,
I’m a fellow blogger at Mprofs and also happen to be the community evangelist at LinkedIn. Loved your post, which interestingly mimics my adoption of Twitter – in “small, accretive moments”!
LinkedIn was an easier sell for me, though.
Just started following you on Twitter. Feel free to follow me @mariosundar.

By: Kim Kochaver

Kim Kochaver — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:34:00 +0000

I work in the Marketing department at LinkedIn, and I can confirm that our integration on NYTimes.com is live (you’ll find it in the top right corner on the Business and Technology article pages). We also have a broad-based partnership with CNBC (including joint polls, content and API integration, and more) that we announced last fall . For more information on all our partnerships, please visit http://press.linkedin.com/partners. Glad to hear that you all are such active users of LinkedIn!

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:56:34 +0000

I love this analysis… I think #7 helps account for the people who don’t ever login (I’d guess the dip is deeper), and I don’t necessarily agree that LI is hitting a plateau, but the logic behind the analysis is very cool.
Also, in response to some comments about the value of LI being tied to what you put into it, and your authenticity, I agree up to a certain point. There are recruiters and sales professionals who don’t interact much with Answers or Groups but do a lot of searches and communicate with people one-on-one… interesting how different people can get different value out of the same tool.
Jason Alba
Author – I’m on LinkedIn — Now What???
Create of LinkedIn for Job Seekers, the DVD