My profile on www.LinkedIn.com for anyone interested in staying in contact with me or anyone interested in joining my network.
I’ve had a LinkedIn profile now for quite some time. A collegue of mine had sent me an invitation so I went ahead and created a profile, with the absolute bare minimum of information at first, because I didn’t know how much SPAM I was going to start receiving. So far, it’s been completely spam free. I haven’t looked at it in a couple of years until recently another colleque sent me another invitation to join his network. I’ve been hearing the buzz about the linkedin website and I didn’t really see why I should join it till I read this article by Ben Worthen on the Wall Street Journal Biztech Blog site.
According to the article: “LinkedIn is also a good way to solve problems that you don’t know how to answer. If you need help with a marketing problem, for example, but don’t have a relationship with anyone in your company’s marketing department, you can find out what friends or friends-of-friends have that expertise. It’s the equivalent of asking your friends if they know a good dentist, says Luo, only faster.”
I know personal referrals aren’t 100% always great, but they are light years ahead of calling someone at random out of the phone book.