LINKEDIN: LinkedIn requires a lot of activity to stay in sync

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

In my LinkedIn Outlook folder, I have 1109 contacts. In LinkedIn, I have 1100. Why the discrepancy?

And, it’s not easy to figure it out.

One can count until you’re bleary eyed. But it’s like counting sheep, it’ll put you to sleep.

And, is it an “activity trap” type of activity? Or, does it lead to something useful?

Don’t know.

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RANT: Put the sheeple in their proper place in the pecking order!

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

This morning I went to vote. Hey, I’m insane. Keep doing the same thing year after year, expecting different results. Today it was raining. As I walked past all the parked cars, in the rain, thru the puddles, it struck me. These are the worker’s cars.

What monumental disrespect!

It’s a peek into their souls. They took the first space and they will be their for their full shift. And every voter will have to trudge by their car. If you were really interested in “serving” the people, wouldn’t you have parked you car a little further away and left the close to the door spaces for the myriad of voters who would come to “duck in and out”.

No, they are the sheeple who can be treated with such disrespect.

Sigh!

Is it uncharitable to wish that all their tires go flat?

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JOBSEARCH: Updating my mental model

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS:

The model of success is changing again.

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Success, in a job search sense, is found by having:

(1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt;

(2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — certifications — credentials — they can’t take it away from you;

(3) a white collar job in order to save big bux;

(4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber;

(5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open;

(6) a free time hobby that generates income; and

(7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.

***End Quote***

Please exchange your old memes for new ones at Customer Service.

We are not responsible for adverse consequences of using old memes. Bankruptcy, divorce, alcoholism, sleeplessness, depression, and lost of self-esteem are side effect of using the wrong meme. See you certified Turkey Master for the correct meme in your specific case.

We take visa/master card and most insurances.

This is not an offering to buy or sell securities which can only be made by formal prospectus.

This is only for illustrative purposes and not indicative of anyone’s actual results.

Your Mileage May Vary.

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LINKEDIN: You can be in LinkedIn’s “dog house” and not even know it!

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

FROM AN EMAIL TO A LINKEDIN CONTACT WHO HAD BEEN “POUNDED”:

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FYI Your profile has been sent to the “dog pound” by LinkedIn. I think you need to take some action on that, but I don’t know what to tell you. It’s my understanding that you will not, repeat NOT, be found in any LinkedIn searches if you’ve been “pounded”. So right away, I think you have a problem. It’s my again my understanding that LinkedIn has done this to anyone who has their email, or other strange characters in their name field. The hard part is only YOUR first level connections can see this “pounding”, and tell you about it. Others that I have told, have “fixed” the problem and about a week later were “un-pounded”. Please advise if, after you “fix” it, you want me to check for you again.

Fjohn

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AND HERE”S WHERE I FIRST HEARD ABOUT IT:

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Is Your Profile Ending Up In The Linkedin Dog Pound?
Posted by: “Vincent Wright”
Tue Nov 7, 2006 10:01 pm (PST)

Because of the way the symbol for it is pronounced, I think of the “#”
Section of Linkedin’s Remove Connections as “The Dog Pound” . (Some may
think this a good name for certain types of profiles. :-))

In case you’re not familiar with the “#” Section on Linkedin, it’s located
at the end of the alphabetized list of your contacts at:
http://www.linkedin.com/connections?displayBreakConnections

You and I cannot place any contacts in this area. Profiles are assigned
there by Linkedin’s contact algorithm based on certain types of elements
being present in the name field – I believe.

Food For Thought: Some people may use this as a way to clean up “weak”
connections en masse. If this happens, your profile may unintentionally be
removed even by a connection who may know you pretty well as a “strong”
connection.

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Thanks!
Vincent Wright
Chief Encouragement Officer
www.VincentWright.com

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