—–Original Message—–
From: Lindy
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:52 AM
To: Reinke
Subject: [=reinkefj Contact Request]
Hi
I read your comment on the Linkedin power forum on ostracism which gave me a chuckle. I thought you might have been an Aussie ;-)
Your profile is entertaining. Are you finding that LinkedIn and Ryze are worthwhile?
Lindy
www.linkedin.com/in/lindyasimus
—–Reply Message—–
To: Lindy
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007
From: Reinke
Subject: [=reinkefj Contact Request]
G’day Mate, No, not an awesie, but I watched Crock-a-dile dundee a few times. Does that count? Glad you were amused. I think that inet’s “hidden nature” allows people to be butt heads and think there are no consequences. Putting bozos on the virtual iceberg and giving them a healthy shove out to the proverbial sea will send a quick chilling message. Glad to be entertaining. I had an injineering prof say “if you can’t get the answer right, at least be entertaining”.
OK, seriously now, I think the jury is still out on the whole social networking genre. I really don’t have time to master multiple sites in the niche. I chose LinkedIn over Ryze for my efforts because Ryze was overrun with MLMers and “kiddies”. I have yet to say “wow, that was because of LinkedIn that I made that $5”. OTOH I have connected with lots of people, earned a little following on my blog, and did publish a “vanity” of my blog in 2006. I’d say that was all driven from LinkedIn. I’m not sure that I say it was “worthwhile” yet. But, I haven’t written it off yet. It’s still a “work in progress”. The genre is still “silo-ed” imho. That is that tools don’t interoperate yet. If ever. I still have a lot of “hand operated” stuff. If I could logically add Act – Outlook – Plaxo – LinkedIn – Skype – Corex Cardscan – AOLIM – MySql – Gmail – Greader – Gpage all into one black box that synced flawlessly, then I’d say “worthwhile”.
Thanks for a great question that allowed me to summarize my thoughts. I’ll blog it when I get time.
So what do you think? Are they “worthwhile”?
Very Truly Yours,
“Crock full of bull” fjohn
aka known in the jobseeking circles
as the big fat old turkey hisself
http://snipurl.com/turkeyfarm
Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824
[Note: An interesting idea. Instead of email, blog posts as a “conversation”. I have to get a patent and some VC money. And a slide deck … absolutely have to have slide deck! I can call it “eavesdropping”.]
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