Tag Archives: LinkedIn

Get vanity

Amused by the fact that when you go to complete your LinkedIn profile it gives you the option of customizing the url to something more people friendly. For example changing your public profile from http://www.linkedin.com/pub/king-kong/10/466/577 to www.linkedin.com/in/king-kong. What’s amusing about this is that the page link to more information about ‘customizing’ your url is: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?editwp=&locale=en_US&trk=mypro_getvanity. [...]

How to trigger E2.0 genetic mutation in a 1.0 organization?

The question “How to trigger E2.0 genetic mutation in a 1.0 Organization?” posed by Stefano Masciocchi in LinkedIn inspired my reply below. Thought it worth re-publishing as a blog post: • Hmm, good question, it says on one of my recommendations on LinkedIn that I am expert on E2.0 and cultural change, thanks to my [...]

LinkedIn discussions

“LinkedIn Groups has always been the central place on LinkedIn for users to form communities around professional interests. Thus far, users have used Groups to search and contact one another. But, today’s release adds the most requested feature of them all – Group Discussions. ” [More..] PS: Apparently (Euan, thanks) though it doesn’t include RSS feeds.

Are employers bleeding social capital?

Piece in the FT on 15 August which follows on from recent case, highlighting trends on employer vs employee social capital: Do I ‘own’ social networking contacts? I run a national retail business employing over 100 sales representatives who are encouraged to use social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, to market the business and build [...]