Get Your LinkedIn Game On!

Get Your LinkedIn Game On! Its time, isnt it? LinkedIn has been growing, and its an excellent career resource. What have you done with your account? Let me share a very cool e-mail I got from Tom Kenny, an East Coast friend (and a living example of perfect networking), after he read Im on LinkedIn Now What???: I feel there is a lot of useful information in the book that people can act upon to improve things, a lot of food for thought and you even give over 30 references to other material. The book may be brief but youve given me a lot of home work to do! I hope everybody realizes that you are not providing solutions but helping to steer them in the direction that is right for them! In my book that is the best type of teacher! Heres whats cool about this e-mail: Tom wrote a very good LinkedIn user guide for members of a professional networking group in New Jersey he has already put a lot of thought into getting the most out of LinkedIn! I find it interesting that he talks about the 30+ references included in the book (I havent counted them, and didnt realize there were that many, but hey :)). I wonder if its because Im a blogger, and we regularly link out to other people, so pointing my book readers to other places is no big deal. Im going to pay more attention to what other authors do in their books, and how many resources they point to. Anyway, if you are looking for another new years resolution, and eating less donuts, lose 30 pounds, or get a promotion just doesnt excite you, how about: Get my LinkedIn game on, Get business out of relationships found from LinkedIn, Do all of the bare necessities with my LinkedIn account and profile, Derive more value out of my online social networking (Facebook, anyone?), or simply, Just understand what the heck I should be doing! Go ahead, check out my book. Or go to Scott Allens LinkedIntelligence.com blog. While you are in this mode, check out Alison Doyles list of Top Job Search Sites for 2007 I definitely agree with the third site she lists! Get Your LinkedIn Game On! Its time, isnt it? LinkedIn has been growing, and its an excellent career resource. What have you done with your account? Let me share a very cool e-mail I got from Tom Kenny, an East Coast friend (and a living example of perfect networking), after he read Im on LinkedIn Now What???: I feel there is a lot of useful information in the book that people can act upon to improve things, a lot of food for thought and you even give over 30 references to other material. The book may be brief but youve given me a lot of home work to do! I hope everybody realizes that you are not providing solutions but helping to steer them in the direction that is right for them! In my book that is the best type of teacher! Heres whats cool about this e-mail: Tom wrote a very good LinkedIn user guide for members of a professional networking group in New Jersey he has already put a lot of thought into getting the most out of LinkedIn! I find it interesting that he talks about the 30+ references included in the book (I havent counted them, and didnt realize there were that many, but hey :)). I wonder if its because Im a blogger, and we regularly link out to other people, so pointing my book readers to other places is no big deal. Im going to pay more attention to what other authors do in their books, and how many resources they point to. Anyway, if you are looking for another new years resolution, and eating less donuts, lose 30 pounds, or get a promotion just doesnt excite you, how about: Get my LinkedIn game on, Get business out of relationships found from LinkedIn, Do all of the bare necessities with my LinkedIn account and profile, Derive more value out of my online social networking (Facebook, anyone?), or simply, Just understand what the heck I should be doing! Go ahead, check out my book. Or go to Scott Allens LinkedIntelligence.com blog. While you are in this mode, check out Alison Doyles list of Top Job Search Sites for 2007 I definitely agree with the third site she lists!