Posts Tagged sharing

LinkedIn: 5 Avanced Tips for Leveraging the Social Network for Professionals

18 Apr 2011

Just wanted to share my article originally posted on Search Engine Watch a couple weeks ago: I recently heard a CEO refer to LinkedIn as the sleeping giant of social networks. With last week’s announcement of 100 million members, the SEC filing in January (in preparation of going public) and 2010 being LinkedIn’s first profitable year since the company’s eight-year existence — I’d say the giant has awakened. For those of us active on LinkedIn, it’s obvious the company is moving aggressively. Even this week, you may have received an email invitation to spend your first $50 worth of advertising free of charge via LinkedIn Ads (formerly called DirectAds). Still, there’s a lot to be discovered about how to best utilize this social network. Would you believe the most popular advice about using LinkedIn begins with making sure your account profile/setup is designated “100 percent complete,” including the upload of…

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Who Takes The Blame For The Internet Overshare?

13 May 2010

Sharing/Oversharing I vividly remember my first Facebook status update; I felt like I was crossing a dangerous threshold. This past January, I had an acquaintance tell me he enjoyed that I was always in his news feed, regardless of time of day. I took that as a bad sign, and had flashbacks to reading Emily Gould’s piece Exposed, which detailed her addiction to sharing online. Her job, and thus her life, was online, and over time her sense of privacy crumbled to a point of no return; every action was chronicled via blog, and every reader comment became part of a life-defining feedback loop. The New York Times did an interesting piece this weekend on the “Tell-All Generation”, chronicling a small shift as early 20-somethings realize their online persona is also their virtual resume. Yet, just as some freshly-minted college grads are realizing the discrepancy between their resume interests (volunteering, photography) and…

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