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Finding Connections on LinkedIn
n this article, Linda provides a number of ways to find those LinkedIn connections and how to treat those connections once made.
If you're a member of any social network, you may bemoan the fact that you don't have many connections compared to, say, Guy Kawasaki. But, the number of connections aren't the point – the quality of connections you make on any social network – such as LinkedIn – are key. In this article, Linda provides a number of ways to find those LinkedIn connections and how to treat those connections once made.
Conclusion
While LinkedIn may seem stuffy and rigid regarding contacts, this careful method is a great way to learn how to gain contacts in other social media tools as well. LinkedIn is for business, and the way you create your contact list at LinkedIn can say a lot about how you conduct your business. While some people may create contact lists that consist of hundreds of contacts, others may be happy with less than one hundred. Like my father used to say, "You can count your true friends in life on two fingers" (although later in life he expanded that list of friends to three fingers).
LinkedIn also can provide you with contacts for Facebook, Friendfeed, Twitter and more – and these contacts can help you spread your message for your services and products through those other accounts – or not. But, Facebook and Friendfeed also provide ways to expand that contact list both at those sites and at LinkedIn. As you expand your contact lists at all social media sites, you'll learn that these tools really are very interconnected and that they can serve different purposes.
More on those methods in the next article...
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.