LinkedIn Link-Love

There’s a lot going on out there about LinkedIn, the check-your-personality-at-the-door social networking site for business-types.
Here’s a few key take-aways for you:

The New York Times today speaks about LinkedIn’s recent influx of capital, and the benefits the site has in being a decidedly-stuffy site for networking among professionals:
“LinkedIn gives professionals, even the most [...]

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Calendar: May CTO Forum Friday (Tomorrow)

One of my favorite events each month is coming up tomorrow (Friday, 5/30). Phil Windley’s CTO Forum/Breakfast at the Novell Cafeteria in Provo (map).
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Anyone interested in how information technology is used to build products or run companies. Despite it’s name, you don’t have to be a CTO to attend—just interested in technology, where [...]

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Early Morning SocNet Adds

Some social-network administration I’ve been doing includes:

I just joined Friendfeed and Lijit.
Twitter says Jeff Barr will be in town today, but his Dopplr doesn’t say where.
Note that Jeff Barr got me hooked on twitter in December 2006 (woah).
I’ve gone through all my little accounts and updated my icons to be the same… the now-famous “guy [...]

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LinkedIN Mobile Version now Available

I’ve got to say I like what LinkedIn has done lately… cool new features, a facelift and now, access to their systems via mobile phones:
[Announcing] LinkedIn mobile for any Web enabled wireless phones that use the wireless application protocol (WAP). What that allows you to do is access LinkedIn from any mobile device ranging from [...]

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Introducing Couch Cast, a weekly talk radio show

To kick off the new CouchCast.org, a weekly talk-radio show to discuss what’s happening out there, co-hosts Thom Allen, Matt Reinbold and I interviewed Jesse Stay, co-author of I’m On Facebook, Now What, and a co-founder of socialoptimize.com, a social network application consulting firm:

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Bestest Blog Post Evaaaar?

I think I just wrote the best blog post of my life… and it wasn’t even on MY BLOG.  It was on Jason’s… down in the comments. It’s how to get yourself noticed by a hiring manager when you have too many skills, or you’re overqualified, or you  are a round-peg in a square-hole.

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About My Company

Last week, I traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico as part of a recruiting event in partnership with DBM, a global outplacement firm.
While I was there, I presented some information to a great group of people about who SOS Technical (my employer) is, and what our services are. I felt it would be good to [...]

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Collective Status

I’m LQTM about the following I noticed in my facebook account just now:

Yeah, I know. It’s probably not funny to you. Its just a bit interesting how, when you aggregate enough people together, you can accurately tell whole populations what you ARE doing by simply comparing yourself to what someone else is NOT doing.

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…But You Say He’s Just a Friend…

Via my Twitter network today: Is your social network about the number of “friends” you have? Or is it about who you trust, and who trusts you?

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