Friday, January 05, 2007

Linked In

Are any of you familiar with LinkedIn?

"Most people use LinkedIn to “get to someone” in order to make a sale, form a partnership, or get a job. It works well for this because it is an online network of more than 8.5 million experienced professionals from around the world representing 130 industries. However, it is a tool that is under-utilized.

Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn

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  • The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven.

  • The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes.

  • People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five.

  • All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees.

  • According to my inside sources, the person with the most pending LinkedIn invitations is...Guy Kawasaki.

  • Increase your visibility. Improve your connectability. Improve your Google PageRank. Enhance your search engine results.
via How to Change the World

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