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 hopeless wallflower, a painless way to follow the advice of every career counselor: build a network.”

• Author and Speaker Lindsey Pollak noted not only the article above in her blog post this morning, Why you should use LinkedIn (if you aren’t already), but also jotted several notes down she received from a PR manager at LinkedIn on how you can use LinkedIn more effectively:
  

  1. Study people you admire.
  2. Tailor your profile to look similar to the people whose careers you want.
  3. Research people you are scheduled to meet.
  4. Ask for… and Give advice.
  5. If you want to increase your Google-ability, set your profile as public and choose a vanity URL

  She also points people to more information about using Linked in smartly here, here and here.

• Finally, Kiley Newbold pointed me to a court-ruling in England where  the High Court orders an ex-employee to hand over LinkedIn contacts apparently used to compete with his former company.  Nevermind the random and really-trying-hard-to-include-relevant-news image of Obama in the article, the point is that companies are trying to clamp down on the rolodex of their past-employees… is  that fair? What do you think?

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 it’s headed, and the problems of starting and building a high-tech business in Utah.

If you’ve seen something cool or just want to discuss a current topic, come prepared to bring it up.

Put these future meetings on your calendar:

* June 27 (Friday)
* July 18 (Friday)
* No breakfast in August
* Sept 26 (Friday)

• 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 in the car” photo that people recognize me from at various meetups, etc.
• Finally got facebook and twitter talking so my statuses work.
• I listened to Cris Russell’s Social Media Recruiting cast with some interesting news articles that got me really thinking…
• Thinking about personal branding. Always impressed with Peter Clayton’s Total Picture Radio.
• I seem to be the last person in the Western Hemisphere to know about Laura Fitton, but twitter took care of that in about a 3-minute round-trip. Cool.
  (actually, I’ve read her blog here and there, just didn’t realize what a rock star she is)
• Blogged about the G33k Dinner/Lunch @ Tucanos next week (salivating).
• Speaking of podcasts, listening to Tech Weekly from Guardian.co.uk is like sugar for my ears.

And it’s just now 7:30.  Off to get kids to school, and myself to work…

P.S. And I wish Wordpress 2.5’s wysiwyg editor didn’t put “http://” in the URL linking box.

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 your Blackberry to iPhone

http://m.linkedin.com/

Check out LinkedIn’s corporate blog post on the subject, including some cool videos. Check it out. It’s been three years since I called LinkedIN out abut missing the boat.  SO MUCH has changed in this marketspace, since then, but I’m glad to see they’re making good progress.

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:

Couch Cast Interviews Jesse Stay of SocialOptimize

The Couch Cast Crew interviews Jesse Stay of SocialOptimize.com, and co-author of “I’m On Facebook, Now What??” A look at social networking tools and how to use them

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 archive this information for others to have, so I’ve uploaded my presentation in PDF and PowerPoint format for your viewing and sharing pleasure.

Below is a map of the current locations of SOS Staffing’s family of companies (including 8 strictly “SOS Technical” location)

(Please note that SOS Technical, its other divisions or parents, assumes no responsibility for this blog or any of its content)

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.