Sometimes I can’t believe the stuff I see on LinkedIn. To wit: someone asks “Are arranged marriage more successful, and why or why not?” I’m flabbergasted by both the question and some of the responses. I just blew a few brain cells.
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My head hurts
Posted in Personal, tagged linkedin, networking, Personal, society on 18 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Getting good stuff for free
Posted in technology, tagged excellence, networking, planning, tools on 21 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some free online learning resources you can use to do some research, improve your skills, and share information. I like using free e-books, slide presentations, images, and videos to find cool ideas, information, and resources. Scribd — a place where you can store documents online and browse what others have uploaded. I’ve found [...]
Answer me this, LinkedIn…
Posted in Personal, society, technology, tagged Career, linkedin, networking, tools on 31 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
…Why do we put up with obnoxious people just because they’re registered on LinkedIn? I find LinkedIn very useful, but I’m amazed at how some people waste their time to write, my time to read, and some poor innocent electrons in order to provide useless answers in the Q&A section. Mood-relevant links: Bob Sutton: the [...]
LinkedIn, but with light little links
Posted in technology, work, tagged job search, linkedin, networking, software, tools, work on 25 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
LinkedIn just borrowed yet one more feature from Facebook — and that’s a good thing. As of this week, you can see two little links that say “Reply privately” and “Add comment” after the status line updates of each your contact. So if one contact says he or she is preparing a white paper on [...]
Tell me who you are, what you do
Posted in employment, job search, tagged excellence, Friends, job search, networking, work on 11 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an invitation to all my friends — and they are many — who are looking for a job these day. It’s a crappy, crappy economic climate we’re in, and the year is shaping up to be rough; I want to help those I can. I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago [...]
LinkedIn for job seekers — and German speakers
Posted in job search, technology, workplace, tagged Career, job search, linkedin, networking, software, tools on 10 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Blogger Guy Kawasaki had a good post last week on 10 ways to use LinkedIn for job search. A day later, Adam Nash followed with his own thoughts on the official LinkedIn blog. If you know nothing of LinkedIn, I suggest you take a look — especially if you’re thinking about a possible job change [...]
More career tips and tools
Posted in books, employment, job search, workplace, tagged excellence, job search, linkedin, networking, tools, work, workplace on 26 January, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I have a frightening number of friends who are looking for jobs right now; either they have been laid off or they feel they might be about to. Fantastic people, with lots of qualifications in a variety of domains and great personalities, reliable, experienced. Web designers, technical writers, librarians, teachers, purchasers, project analysts, plant ecologists, [...]
Twitter annoys me
Posted in technology, tagged media, networking, rants, tools on 22 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve talked about online presence and social networking tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and their applications, used in a professional context. Another networking tool that is growing exponentially these days is Twitter. This application is what is called a micro-blogging service, where users can post messages of up to 140 characters. Posts can be sent [...]
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