[geeks] linkedin.com - Social Networking for Business

[Phil Stracchino]

Rick Hamell wrote:
> I've setup a Linkedin.com account and added quite a few people to it. My 
> question is, now what? Cool - I've got all these people added. Some of 
> them may perhaps link to a potential job down the road. But right now 
> I'm fairly happy where I am and not looking.
> 
> Do I try to to connect to more people? Remake old acquaintances? Make 
> new ones? Twiddle my thumbs? Has anyone on this list gotten a job 
> through it, or helped someone else make contact? It feels like a cool 
> idea, I just don't know how useful it really is in practice. Other then 
> a walk down memory lane.

Dunno.  I'm on it too.  I don't "get" social networking, let alone 
business networking, enough to make any actual use of it.  "OK, ... what 
now?"



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