As promised yesterday, here are some stories about LinkedIn. Let’s make them part of our social media project.
Lisa Gates has this to say:
Isabella, I think I’m too new and green to give you a full blown story, but I will say this: people have come out of the woodwork to say hello, people from my past that I’d wished to find again. And still others who connect because of a common dot. I think the thing I’m liking best is connecting others to others–seeing something in someone that I know someone else would love to be part of.
Gerrit Visser, with whom I connected on LinkedIn after becoming Twitter friends, comments:
I found out that LinkedIn truly crosses the borders and once was contacted by a recruiter in London. The community function of asking questions within your network serves its purpose. Compared to other social networking sites I like it that you can choose to reveal your contacts or not to. Positive is also that LinkedIn protects your email address and gives you full control about the provided features.
Terrence Seamon shows that LinkedIn is much more community oriented than I thought:
I guess my story would be that, since I’ve become such an avid user of LinkedIn Answers, people say things to me like,
“Hey, I saw you on LinkedIn.” and “See you on LinkedIn.”
I still don’t know what to say in reply yet. I smile. And I’m happy that they noticed.
And here is something from Director Tom, who I met last year through LinkedIn. He makes full use of the questions section in LinkedIn, and that’s how we hooked up. Here’s his story:
I did an advanced search a month ago and found my first college professor who taught my television class in 1975.
Do the math…that’s 32 years ago! We haven’t seen each other since then.
Until last week. We connected on LinkedIn and decided to meet at a coffee shop! 32 years seems life a lifetime ago.
We re-connected because of LinkedIn. Cool!
On top of that, our networks will help each other’s business.
Finally, JL Robinson suggests we read the following articles, each written by LinkedIn users:
Guy Kawasaki on Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
Lisa, Terrence, Gerrit and Tom, if write your own blog post about LinkedIn in the next month, please let us know, and we’ll include it in our social media project.
Oh, and let’s not forget a wave to Vivien, who started all this!
Thanks for this post, and the great connection stories. I’m a little slow off the mark with everything but blogging, by choice, but this has me more curious to dig in further.
Lisa Gates’s last blog post..Aren’t We Done with Normal Yet?