LinkdIn or Link Din?
Some time I ago, I seemed to be getting a lot of requests to add people as contacts at LinkedIn, for which I was already a signed up member. I could only put it down to a post-conference flurry of activity or something that happened after a blog post somewhere (I can remember Molly posting something similar a couple of years ago). Whatever, I obviously wasn’t getting it, but I intended to put all that right when I bumped into Steve Ganz at SXSW this year. Having spoken to him for some time, I’ve come away feeling encouraged and, basically, thinking that a service like LinkedIn is only as good as:
- the effort you decide to put in to it when completing your profile
- the quality of the contacts that you have, not the number
Of course, there’s more to it than that, and I’m actually having fun scrubbing my way through the various feature of LinkedIn, rather than viewing at as simply another social network to manage. It really is a different beast to the likes of Flickr, Twitter and whatever other social software I may have tried in the past.
What’s your experience of LinkedIn been? I’d be interested to learn how you’ve found it, and also keen to get any feedback about what I’ve done with my public profile.
[tags]linkedin, social networking, social software[/tags]
Posted: March 16th, 2007 under Tech.
Comments
Comment from brothercake
Time March 16, 2007 at 8:38 am
[btw - why do you make me turn on referer logging to post? ;)]
Comment from Lloydi
Time March 16, 2007 at 8:52 am
brothercake wrote “btw – why do you make me turn on referer logging to post? ;)”
Actually, I have no idea about that – this is an ‘off-the-shelfer’, I’ve barely tweaked the build or design of this blog, so I really have no idea about that aspect. Sorry :-(
Comment from Chris Kavinsky
Time March 16, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I’ve recently just started playing around with LinkedIn and really haven’t tested it out much. I signed up more for researching a project I worked on as opposed to wanting to use it. A fellow alumnus got in touch with me through it rather quickly, which was nice. I’m getting more intrigued of the possibilities of what I can use it for.
Comment from Mike Cherim
Time March 16, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Like Brothercake, I can’t be bothered either. I have a profile there and a circle of contacts — I spent a day doing that and that was enough — but it’s an overload for me. I’m so swamped with work (NOT complaining one bit), I guess I just don’t see the point, for me. I hear good things about, but that word comes from those who actively work the system spending a lot of time at it. Time I don’t have.
Comment from elsakawai
Time March 23, 2007 at 1:04 am
Linkedin is great for professional connection :) me loveeess it and just added u pal.
Comment from brothercake
Time March 16, 2007 at 8:37 am
I totally can’t be bothered with it. Call me perverse, but I’m not that interested in actively maintaining casual acquaintances. If someone wants to be my friend – be my friend – a social networking site is not required to do that.