Wonder what’s going to change?

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Relationship Section of Profile – No Longer Available

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Just makes room for a competitor!

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https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/43372

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Note: As part of our ongoing efforts to invest our resources in building a better LinkedIn, we’re retiring the Save to Contacts feature on February 25, 2016. You’ll still access all of the Contacts you’ve previously saved by going to your Connections list, choosing the Filter By Tag option, and selecting the Saved_Contacts tag.

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I used this feature a lot.

It just disappeared. 

Hence I’m dropping the premium feature of LinkedIn.

Sad, when these “services” go rogue.

Guess they don’t need my money!

Too bad. Argh!

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2015-Apr-26

Matt McCrosson has a new job: Partner, O’Connor Davies, LLP

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmccrosson

McCrosson, Matt (MC????)
Partner,O’Connor Davies, LLP
Greater New York City AreaAccounting

Summary
My diverse professional experience and background provide a better understanding of the challenges faced by my clients. I strive to offer practical guidance that improves operating capability and helps the organization as a whole.

I am a partner of the Firm and have more than 20 years of experience in public accounting. I provide a broad scope of management advisory services to a diverse range of clients, including business finance, operations, technology, and performance improvement. I have significant experience in planning for organizational change, and helping my clients remain on track in a rapidly-changing corporate environment.

Prior to joining O’Connor Davies, I held a senior position at a Big Four accounting firm and focused on clients in the not-for-profit, higher education and government sectors. Earlier in my career, I served as the Chief Operating Officer or Chief Financial Officer for several national and regional not-for-profit organizations, including the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and the New York Urban Coalition.

I regularly speak on the topics of financial reporting, organizational efficiency and operations management. I am also a dedicated volunteer and sit on numerous not-for-profit organization Boards.

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LinkedIn is further mudding the waters with group. Without disclosure or discussion, it is making unilateral changes. It no longer passes through to the underlying Yahoo Group. And, the management tools are gone. It makes it just worthless.

Oh well. When the LinkedIn competitor comes along maybe they will treat the PAYING users as if they mattered.

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First, thank you for managing your group on LinkedIn. We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you devote to your members, and we know they value it. Together you have made Groups one of the top features on LinkedIn.

This Friday, we will be adding several much-requested features to your group:

Discussion forums: Simple discussion spaces for you and your members. (You can turn discussions off in your management control panel if you like.)
Enhanced roster: Searchable list of group members.
Digest emails: Daily or weekly digests of new discussion topics which your members may choose to receive. (We will be turning digests on for all current group members soon, and prompting them to set to their own preference.)
Group home page: A private space for your members on LinkedIn.
We’re confident that these new features will spur communication, promote collaboration, and make your group more valuable to you and your members. We hope you can come by LinkedIn on Friday morning to check out the new functionality and get a group discussion going by posting a welcome message.

Sincerely,
The LinkedIn Groups Team

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http://getsatisfaction.com/linkedin/topics/new_linkedin_group_issues

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New LinkedIn Group Issues
LinkedIn just changed (translation: “broke”) many things about LinkedIn Groups

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Unfortunately, when LinkedIn went for the big buxs, it showed the Leadership’s true colors. It tells you a lot about people. How do they follow their principles. I’ve become unenamoured with LinkedIn over the years. When they were struggling for traction, it was come one and come all. Then, they got testy with the super connectors. Then, they got testy with me, even though I am a paying customer, not a super connector, and not an open networker. Then, the final straw, they lawyered up on Vincent Wright, one of their early and most popular “champions”. He did more support then they did … for free. He single handly did more to keep their start ont he rise than they did. He finally got disgusted.

The LinkedIn folks better hop that no comptitor targets them. I think they’ll be lunch. No one is suggesting that they don’t have the right to make their rules. But, a little openness, gratitude, and appreciation of why they got all those big buxs.

It wasn’t them. It was all the Vincent Wrights, and a grazillion little people.

Where is the competition?

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http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2008/07/17/linkedin-maintenance-do-this-right-now-or-else

LinkedIn Maintenance: Do This Right Now (or else?)
July 17th, 2008

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I got an e-mail from Susan Ireland, at the Job Lounge. She asked me if I knew anything about LinkedIn deleting people’s accounts… I’ve heard a little about this, but mostly just hand-slapping for looking like spammers. Getting an account deleted can be a huge problem, especially as you use LinkedIn more.

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LinkedIn deleting people’s accounts?

Wow, that’s news!

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The LinkedIn Blog: The 3 minute LinkedIn Overview video

Posted using ShareThis

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/linkedin-raises-53-million-at-billion-dollar-valuation

LinkedIn Closes Its Round; Got That Billion Dollar Valuation
Mark Hendrickson

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LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion.

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Yeah, LinkedIn wasn’t doing anything!

As a commenter recently and harshly took me to task about!

So, do you think those folks GOT ANYTHING for their 53 Mil?

:-(

Now what will they try to do to the users. Still no competitor in sight to knock them off.

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Another LION: Linkedin’s Ignorance Of Networking + Keep STRONG!
By WrightHandBlogger

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So, imagine my surprise when Linkedin Corporation wrote to me today telling me that they’d suspended my group called “Keep STRONG!” – ostensibly for this well-worn-out old Linkedin reason: “The LinkedIn Groups feature is meant for like-minded peers who have a similar base of professional experience. Group members should have some structured
off-line association with other professionals. We do not feel your group goes with bringing like minded professionals together in the LinkedIn manner. We have suspended this group at this time.”

Here is the group description I wrote for the group “Keep STRONG!”: “It is NOT your job to help those who seek to drag you down, to weaken you. That’s their job. Your job is to acquire as much encouragement as is needed for you to have a healthy life. YOUR job is to Keep STRONG!!”

{Extraneous Deleted}

Thanks,
Vincent Wright

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LinkedIn continues to demonstrate it’s ‘tin ear’ to it’s champions. They better hope the next better idea doesn’t come along until after they cash out.

:-(

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I’m a paying customer of LinkedIn. (Not that that seems to matter much.)

I send a few emails to folks from time to time in support of their jobsearch efforts. (Offer help, cite some resources, give a few urls, and wish them bona fortuna.) I used to just call up an old one and steal the usual passages. Then, customize a little and shoot it off. LinkedIn doesn’t offer drafts or templates.

When I went to do that, (I guess for the first time since the redesign.) SHAZAAM, there not where they used to be.

Maybe they’ve just moved?

I read the LinkedIn faqs and it looks like they went to the bit bucket.

Argh!!

Copying an email to yourself isn’t even a future workaround because the email is kept in the LinkedIn playpen.

Sooo, ti seems like you have to cut and paste an email to yourself to compensate.

Arghh!

So I shot this off to “Customer Service”: (BY THE WAY, did anyone notice that ‘customer service’ is now a new and different domain from LinkedIn? That is ‘linkedin.custhelp.com’! Outsourced to a vendor in India maybe?)

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I used to be able to see my old messages that I wrote, received archived, invitations and such. Since the redesign, I can’t find any of that. Are they now gone?

It would have been nice to give a ‘head’s up’. So I could have saved them. As a paying customer, I don’t expect surprises. If I was a freeloader, I’d have less of a squawk.

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Upon submitting, you have to put in contact information? Interesting. This leads credence to the ‘outsourced customer service’ impression. Why would they need that input again?

Argh!

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http://www.linkedin.com/companies/1703/Comcast?trk=pro_other_cmpy

I looked at the one for Comcast. And “new employees” are four months old. No rss feeds. And, I don’t see a lot of use. Maybe Business Week (the sponsor) will.

?

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FROM AN EXCHANGE ON CREATING LINKEDIN ACCOUNTS

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Perhaps this is the answer to the “quantity” types. You too could have
a few thousand meaningless networking contacts. And, at the same time
help LinkedIn reach 100 million accounts.

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From: XXX
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:46 PM
Subject: LinkedIn’s magic millions

Wicked :)

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Glad you like that idea.

Can I interest you in the 10, 100, 1000, or our 10,000 contacts plan. I figure I can put up a script that will generate them as a service to our “quantity brethren”. What should I charge? $1/contact? 2?

Maybe I can have a pseudo identity with a pseudo army of contacts?

You really shouldn’t encourage me. Next I’ll have a deck and start looking for VC money.

:-)

Happy New Year,
fjohn

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I wonder what an army of ghouls is worth. Time to update the taxonomy. What do spies call their alternate identities?

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http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/1060

Resolve To Not Be A Digital Nuisance In 2008
January 1st, 2008

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Improving communication is key to our career success, right? Here are 08 things for ‘08 to help us communicate better on the digital playground.

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One can only hope that one avoid annoying people. After all, we need them to do the “heavy lifting”.

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>PLEASE give us 500 characters for our professional endorsements!

May I suggest a tiny url as a continuation to what you really want to say?

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Joe Jones is a real gem. Blah blah blah
(continued at http://tinyurl.com/yo6d5y)
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That uses up your last 31 characters, but you have an unlimited amount of space somewhere.

With Google pages, ISPs, WSPs, giving the stuff away it shouldn’t be a big deal?

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http://www.trademork.com/in

12.27.07 | No Comments

On December 11, 2007, business networking company LinkedIn Corporation filed to protect the trademark in in relation to their popular business networking website.

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So, you thought that circle-R next to the LinkedIn logo was only for the whole name. Well, now it appears it applies to just the “in” part. The abbreviated LinkedIn logo (seen in the above link) is now showing up on sites across the web, including that of a prominent Presidential candidate (scroll down), and on LinkedIn’s own merchandise. Makes sense. With one little word and a cute Web 2.0 logo, everyone in the world can see that you’re “in” the club, “in” the know…and just plain “in”.

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Argh!

LinkedIn groups are basically under the bulls eye.

Trust no one! Ever.

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FROM AN EMAIL ABOUT “LIVELINESS”

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I don’t know about the other 63% of your contacts, obviously, but as for myself, I didn’t respond because the email address was V2Y2R0N27RHJ6Y and even though the message looked authentic, that email looked hokey.

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OK, point well taken. I’m going to be moving my emails off Comcast and onto my own domain (i.e., reinke.cc). In the spring, I’ll test again and see if that makes a difference. :-)

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FROM A LINKEDIN CONTACT ABOUT “LIVELINESS”

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I decided to perform a small test of my own today… by simply sending out recommendation requests to those people I have actually worked with (as opposed to all the recruiters that are in my network). I’ll et you know the final results… but I’m already getting replies from people who have taken over colleagues email addresses at companies asking me who I am!!! Not a real good sign.

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Amazing what you find out when you look!

Here’s another reason why you should never ever use your current employer’s email in LinkedIn.

I rant about this all the time. Not your current employers! Not your ISP! Not gmail, yahoo, or whatever! It has to be from your own domain name.

Like “reinke.cc”!

No excuses. No reason not to. You’re supposed to be a pro, professional, it can be done for well under $100 bucks a year. It’s probably in the 60$/year range. That’s a little more than a dollar a week.

There’s no excuse for it.

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FROM AN MLPF EMAIL

>Re: Hilary For President
>Posted by: “Verdegem, Luc”
>Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:58 pm (PST)
>Sorry for this question,
>I was just wondering why there are not more “smart” politicians that use

Interesting.

“Ron Paul” is also on LinkedIn. I’m one of “his” loons. But, I would know more think of doing the old Star Trek Vulcan Mind Meld with that pseudo person

(I have to update my taxonomy of “Trolls you find on LinkedIn” with a new one “political alter egos”! — POLITICIANS. Sort of the opposite of ABILLGATES that high value target. This is imho a low value target.)

LINKEDIN: Updated taxonomy of LinkedIn “identities”
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/11/29/linkedin-updated-taxonomy-of-linkedin-identities
http://tinyurl.com/25b5mw

Those have to be a violation of the LinkedIn TOS, contrary to the spirit of LinkedIn, and injecting your politics into an inappropriate venue. IMHO.

I can’t see any upside to doing this. What’s next? Linking to your favorite cartoon character.

(Shaking my virtual, not virtuous, head in amazement.)

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Please note: You are now required to enter an email address to send invitations from this page because several recipients of your invitations indicated they don’t know you. This safeguard is in place to prevent users from receiving unwanted invitations from people they don’t know. Customer Service can remove the restriction at anytime once you indicate that you understand this policy.

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I don’t know what they are talking about. I don’t invite ever since Linkedin instituted their dumb “5 I don’t knows and your suspended”. I only accept invites.

The funnier think is that I am not, nor have I ever been, what they hate … an “open” networker.

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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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