>What email do you use on LinkedIn?
>Posted by: “Ed Callahan”
>Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:19 am (PST)
>You can and should have as many emails in your profile as possible.
Understood. I have lots.
>then brokers communication with you via your primary email.
That’s part of the problem. People think of their employer’s email as “theirs”. It’s not.
>you should use an email you own as your primary email – I’m with you on that.
Glad we agree to agree agreeably. As opposed to agree to disagree either agreeably or disagreeably. (Whaaa, like the Aflac duck commercial!)
>I like the other suggestions you make, but in some sense they are moot.
Not so sure, that I agree with the LinkedIn design of primary email. If I was king, I’d insist that each LinkedIn-ite have TWO working emails. Primary and secondary. And, I’d double LinkedIn’s email load (notice how free I am with other people’s resources), so as to ensure it works. (It would ensure that you don’t miss messages.)
I have at least two correspondents who have lost their access to their primary email account AND forgotten their passwords. Interesting? (One bozo kept it on the computer she had to turn back in.) So she has no way of recovering her profile.
If I was the “King of LinkedIn” (hey that rhymes), I’d decree that LinkedIn would test for “life at the end of the wire”. Hasn’t happened to me on linkedin, but it has on my ezine, where are readers email goes bouncing due to death. Awkward, but one should know these things.
I wonder how many of LinkedIn’s millions are dead (user died), disabled (user’s email innoperative), lost (user not interacting), zombies (shells constructed by other), abandons (user walks away), or in one way or another “empty rotting shells” (are there other types of strawmen). Someone might crassly say that its to LinkedIn’s benefit to inflate the numbers with these empty rotting shells and they have no incentive to bulldoze inactivity.
So, imnsho, LinkedIn’s email architecture is flawed. And, it doesn’t have robust process and procedures to ensure “liveliness”.
Am I the only one who measures “days since last contact” in my network? The empty rotting shells play havoc with your score. (See like some players of the Linkedin “game”, score on how many scalps they collect, I’m much more sophisticated. I score by days since last significant contact. Pinging you with a plaxo or cardscan email address update doesn’t count. That’s a better “game”.)
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