FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH A LINKEDIN CONTACT
>and LinkedIn stays on my personal e-mail which is second priority. I’m cleaning e-mail today .
Well, just as long as you remember, that one’s first duty, the 2008 Prime Directive, is to find your “next” job! Too many times, as you’ve probably heard me blog, I hear my turkeys tell me that “they were too busy with work to … …”. With unfortunate results. Both in family life and earning power.
>I agree with your blog comments. I think one interesting question is how “linked” are we through affiliations.
I think that “affiliations” can lead to “linking”.
> I would not hesitate to recommend you or introduce you, based upon my view of your work on XXXXXXXXXX and your writings I’ve seen.
Thanks for the kind words. If one can’t be “good”, be “persistent”? :-)
>I wouldn’t offer the same to someone just because they XXXXXXXXXXX.
No, but I bet you might be inclined to take a Lucht-style networking meeting with them. See that is the theory of the “granfalloon” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon where one can parlay an “imaginary connection” into a chance to create a weak link. Which then, over time, you can build to a strong one. I used that extensively first in my career, and later in selling.
>interesting that in at least four – I was linked to these people through you – two or three separations.
Well, in LinkedIn you need to connect to a few “paul revere” types or some of the “mega connectors” to be “findable”
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