Comments on: Not Linked In, thankfully?

By: Julien

Julien — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:13:07 +0000

Linked-In is quite useful to me, and I enjoy playing with it.
I consider it as a funny online RPG. See http://my.opera.com/jcayzac/blog/is-linked-in-a-mmorpg to better understand my point.

By: Hmmcast #26: getting in shape » Make You Go Hmm

Hmmcast #26: getting in shape » Make You Go Hmm — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:59:52 +0000

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By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:35:30 +0000

Mostly neutral. I have reestablished contact with a couple of people I hadn’t talked to in years through it, but otherwise no benefit or harm.

By: iiq374

iiq374 — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:10:05 +0000

I have to agree with Darkmoon on this; that it really is more about a formalised professional netwrok rather than a social network.

Certainly one aspect that I have found interesting is using it as a lever to check what the professional associations etc of similar people in roles that I would like are.

I also have found it quite a good way to keep in touch with all those business acquantancies from time past, which more social oriented sites actually are not that appropriate for.

By: Konstantin Guericke

Konstantin Guericke — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:33:13 +0000

Yes, you have to log in to see the recommendations, but you don’t get recommendations with the yellow pages–and especially not from people you know. When I’m hiring an attorney, dentist, general contractor, etc., I definitely always rely on recommendations from people I know. Until now, I had to email all my friends to get recommendations, but that was highly inefficient for them and me.

I like the “check spelling” option!

By: darkmoon

darkmoon — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:12:57 +0000

Yeah. At least I would think so. I know that Calacanis and a few others have actually posted job postings via Linked-In. From my end, I’m not looking for another job but opportunity is always good to look out for. I think that a lot of people dislike it due to random hits. It’s no different from posting your resume online though or on Monster and just waiting.

Is the social network aspect worthwhile? I’d say no, it’s just a gimmick. But it’s more interesting as a professional to have this network than say MySpace/Facebook or Friendster.

Just my opinion.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:49:06 +0000

Ahh, so if you are looking for work it might be useful then darkmoon?

By: darkmoon

darkmoon — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:43:59 +0000

Had a couple of cold headhunter shots which actually was to my benefit. It needs a lot of tweaking, but I also look at it as a way to keep my resume up-to-date instead of a Word doc. Otherwise, it’s pretty useless from the “9 degrees of Kevin Bacon” standpoint. I do like to see what people are doing from time to time, since you can’t keep on top of everyone of your buddies.

From the standpoint of CodingHorror, he’s right. From the other side though, since I don’t get the millions of requests, it actually doesn’t matter one way or another depending on what you use it for.