Manners for the Twenty-First Century

[rolanni]

OK, somebody explain LinkedIn to me. I have an account. Why I have an account escapes me at the moment, doubtless it had to do with procrastinating while on deadline or something similar. Lots of nice people want me to join their Circles of Influence, Associates Lists, Business Networks and Groups. I've been ignoring them, not through malice, but through a genuine lack of cluefulness. What is this thing for, in theory, and how is it supposed to work?

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I get it now. Probably not something I'm going to hang around with/in a lot.

I'd agree

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

The secret is that most peoplereally should only link to people that they remember and would like to stay in touch with.

A few people use it differently - Susan Shwartz (sp?) collects them and does a lot there - and linking to her puts you 2 degrees away from people who might want to find you.

It's just an electronic version of "a friend of a friend of mine might know someone who. . . "

Find the people you would actually think would be pleased to see and hear from you. It will then offer you people and a few of them will cause you to go "oh!"