I enjoy the benefits of connecting with colleagues, friends, clients and other people in our industry.
This isn’t random spam, this is spam being created by network connections. How can this be? Interestingly, everyone views spam slightly differently. I have found a few, who view it as the reason they have a network, which I find interesting.
The benefits of LinkedIn are plentiful, however using it as an adverting tool is not one of them.
Obviously, everyone in LinkedIn has a product or service to promote, but I find the direct emails, which are apparently random in nature, as they not directed to [...]
October 10th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Business networking, Linkedin, LinkedIn Group, social network, Social network service, Web 2.0
Posted in Etiquette, Featured, Networking | 6 Comments »
What is LinkedIn’s real purpose? It is a social networking platform for making connections, right? Wrong.
Wrong? I was sure surprised to learn I had been using LinkedIn improperly.
Hmmm, that must be the reason they “blocked” me from contacting people in my groups, without their email address. LinkedIn was nice about it, stating they would remove it, if I basically acknowledged I now understood the concept.
Interesting enough, even if I had watched this video, and completely understood the concept of LinkedIn, I probably would have contacted “group” members. I consider a “group” as a collection of people sharing common interests and [...]
August 20th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Linkedin, Networking
Posted in Linkedin, Networking, Tips/Tools | 3 Comments »