I don’t know if I’m right in thinking that my email inbox is peppered frequently with messages about the relative popularity of various social networking platforms, but it does seem that way. And my impression is that, apart from the acknowledged leading duo of Facebook and Twitter, the buzz seems to be usually about one…
I keep telling myself I won’t do it again, but there I was yesterday, having another fundamentally frustrating conversation about social media with a Baby Boomer business owner who did not really want to listen. It started with his making a polite enquiry about what I “did” by way of business and – once I…
Would you connect with someone on LinkedIn who does not want to speak with you? If it weren’t for my own experience over several years, I probably would not think that was a question worth asking. But consider this. LinkedIn is a professional business networking platform. It is not and never has been intended as…
For first level connections on LinkedIn to happen, I need to first have some form of personal contact In all the time I’ve been on groups where LinkedIn is discussed, including the Linked Bloggers group I co-moderate, the great staple of discussion has always been what some refer to as the Quality vs Quantity debate….
Why it makes sense to personalize your invitations to connect on LinkedIn When I decided after Christmas that I wanted to have a clear inbox on LinkedIn before the New Year arrived, I clearly underestimated the scope of the task. I finished up spending the better part of a day sorting it all out, dealing…
I had been apprehensive in advance of my presentation on social media today at Griffith University, as a contribution to the Skool Project 2009, organised by cricketer and Griffith staffer Michael Jeh and which I posted about earlier this afternoon. After all, I would be presenting to a group of digital immigrants and I was…