FROM AN EMAIL ABOUT WPDOTCOM
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>Your top clicks should wrap in the box, not bleed off the edge ( though I wouldn’t have a clue how to fix it ;o
The top clicks widget is a WPDOTCOM problem. I keep pinging them about it. If I didn’t think it was valuable, I’d have dropped it. Argh!
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Annoying but it’s valuable to the site visitor.
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http://linkedintelligence.com/smart-ways-to-use-linkedin-weekend-update/
Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn – Weekend Update
by Scott Allen on May 7th, 2007
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All of the above will receive signed copies of Liz Ryan’s Happy About Online Networking and Andy Sernovitz’s Word of Mouth Marketing, as well as be eligible for some of the other great prizes.
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Yeah, I’ve finnaly made it. I’m a “winner”! Why when my wife says it … … “you’re a real winner” … … does it not sound the same?
Seriously great information in these posts.
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http://www.highrisehq.com/tour
Highrise
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Your address book doesn’t do enough. Traditional CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software tries to do too much. That’s why we built Highrise. It’s the just-right, more thoughtful way to keep track of the people, conversations, and tasks that are the lifelines of your business.
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Not for the average Joe. Intended for a company CRM. A bunch of like-minded people sharing information.
I’m comparing it to LinkedIn and JibberJobber.
Andm this ain’t it.
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http://linkedinbusinessdiscussionindex.blogspot.com/2007/05
/open-letter-to-linkedin-552007.html
Saturday, May 05, 2007
An Open Letter To Linkedin (5.5.2007)
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We’re confused.
Some of us are downright dismayed.
Even some renown evangelists among us have stopped evangelizing. And
others are watching to determine whether or not they should continue
evangelizing.
Still others of us are intensely looking at other networking platforms
to join or to start.
Why?
Because of the indecipherable policies, inconsistent practices, and
unclear procedures that leave us in the dark regarding what IS and
what ISN’T acceptable ways to use Linkedin.
The confusion is compounded by inordinately long dry spells of
communication – coming after we’d been introduced to professionals
whom we expected to hear from on a more frequent basis.
Of course, Linkedin doesn’t owe us a response and doesn’t owe us
regular communication – or anything else.
But, nor do we owe Linkedin anything – beyond abiding by Linkedin’s
policies when on their platform.
Some of us have really championed the name of Linkedin. But, now,
some of us are so desperately looking for a respite from the confusion
of Linkedin’s current behavior that there’s a growing chorus of
“NIDEKNIL”, the opposite of Linkedin. (Think “Oprah and Harpo”.)
{Drop Over To Vincent’s Blog For The Rest}
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Vincent Wright, the instigator of a bunch of LinkedIn Yahoo Groups to gather like minded people around some aspect (i.e., City; School; Interest), has become really exasperated with the LinkedIn management. He’s been getting conflicting messages from various parts of the LinkedIn hierarchy. Like Yahoo supplanted with Google, LinkedIn could be vulnerable to a competitor.
In the time I’ve known Vincent, which is longer than I’ve been blogging, I’ve never seen him so … … annoyed. He’s got a following, that would follow him to a better service site.
Perhaps the current LinkedIn management is buffing it up for a sale at jugundo prices. But they, or whoever buys it, could be holding an empty bag if all the users take their attention elsewhere. It’s happened before and it can happen again.
Be afraid LinkedIn. Be very afraid.
I know what I want now. It’s a software agent that is like a robot. My idiot clone.
I can describe to myself what I want to do:
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VISIT website.
QUERY Find out who came to visit yesterday.
FOR EACH visitor:
IF NEW:
Create an Outlook record. Create flat file record. Send invite. Retrieve LinkedIn. Create JibberJobber entry. Flag for further review.
ENDIF NEW
IF OLD:
Compare their information to their last visit.
IF UNCHANGED
EXIT
ENDIF UNCHANGED
IF CHANGED
Update Outlook. Update flat file. Update JibberJobber. Flag for further review.
ENDIF CHANGED
ENDIF OLD
ENDFOR visitor
EXIT
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Now I just want an idiot to do that. It’s a lot of hard work. It should be all able to be done in software. Argh! Where’s my FORTAN compiler?
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Included in the May 4th blitz
INTERESTING: Adding my Yahoo Answers
May 4th, 2007
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Missed
LINKEDIN: LINKEDIN changing their rules a little
May 4th, 2007
Missed
YAHOO ANSWER: Another Job after being fired?
May 4th, 2007
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Included in the May 3rd blitz
LIBERTY: Economics more powerful than government
May 3rd, 2007
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>I have to give LinkedIn credit for a really excellent solution to this
Well, I would NOT call it excellent. And, I recognize that it LinkedIn’s “ball” and they can take it home any time they want.
However, if I was them, I’d have went at this a little more sensitively. I’ve been on LinkedIn for a long time. If I wasn’t in the first wave, I was in an early one. When they were trying to get recognition, it was “upload your address book and get connections”. Now, like a reformed prostitute, they want to move “upscale”. No more “connection sluts” wanted. (Sorry if this is too graphic.) They are saying “we used you to get our buzz; now buzz off”. I’d have communicated with people, everyone, what was changing, why, and an attempt to build a community agreement of “best practices”.
I get upset with heavy handed approaches. FWIW I have 60 invites left. And, have been rejected for an increase. As an alumni ezine publisher, I have over 2k or active readers and a rolodex of 6k “live” alums. (And, some dead ones too. RIP! Whose families use their email account to keep in touch.) I also have professional rolodex of 10k from my consulting days. I can’t guess at the percent I know personally, but it is high. But LinkedIn doesn’t seem to see that as a legitimate use of their service. But, their “group” group just accepted LinkedInJaspers as a valid group. Like most organizations, policy and procedures aren’t uniform.
Like Digg just learned the hard way, the community can revolt. If LinkedIn doesn’t recognize that they have a tiger by the tail, then they should. Assume that one of the movers ‘n’ shakers gets annoyed at some tactic or other, LinkedIn could be faced with a competitor. If some one had the time and inclination, you could use them as a model. Do it better based on the mistakes they have made. And, poof, NIDEKNIL is born! All the Open Networkers move. Followed shortly by all the Recruiters. Followed shortly by all the JobSeekers. Followed shortly by all those employed but scared. LinkedIn will have its employees, those too lazy to move, the clueless, and the “strawmen”. Since NIDEKNIL is coded from scratch and knows the volumes, it can be better, faster, and cheaper than LinkedIn. Heck, it can even do an export / import from LinkedIn like those bozos at Jigsaw did. They sucked every public source of profiles, turned it into a db, and started selling it. They’re still there so I assume they are making money.
So, gazing into my crystal ball, I see that there is a path that LinkedIn could take to their doom. Hope they don’t take it, but they seem to be very oblivious to just how fickle the marketplace can be.
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http://www.wservernews.com/TY4XIX/070402-Shift-Happens
“Shift happens”
The need for 21st Century learning skills. An interesting presentation
by Carl Fisch: “Shift happens”
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“Shift happens”
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Wow! Don’t miss this video. It’ll stretch your paradigm.
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http://www.sticky-notes.net/sticky-notes-software-free.html
Sticky Notes Software
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This free software allows you to create sticky notes on your computer desktop to remind you of important events.
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Comes highly recommended. I’ll try it.
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http;//www.blogdesk.org
Highly recommended and superbly supported.
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