It seems like a lot of people in my immediate circle have recently discovered Facebook. At least the friend requests are coming in pretty steadily. And Facebook is fine. But for my professional/career orientated communications I find LinkedIn a much better fit. I’ve recently started utilizing the groups feature more, and am picking up consistently good information, particularly from the WordPress group. I also just added this blog feed to my profile page, based on a suggestion in the article below. The application makes it look like it will only work for wordpress.com accounts, but my self-hosted WordPress blog works fine.
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Fast forward to today. I speak at many different colleges and to my surprise, not every student knows what LinkedIn is, so I always have to take time to give a summary of LinkedIn, its value and benefits. I really emphasize why it’s become one of the most important recruiting tools in the world and the majority of “good” headhunters have already signed up. LinkedIn, to me, has become the ultimate database of relationships and since networking is the key to getting anywhere in life, it’s significant to my professional development.
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