On 2013-10-07 11:26, Shrdlu wrote:
Interesting question, Adam. I've read nearly all the responses, which
includes the group of "me too" concerning Linked In, which I consider to
be a vast wasteland, populated here and there with interesting people.
But, that is the thing, LinkedIn has become a contact list for work. What
makes it valuable is that by updating your contact information there, you
effectively update all your contacts, including the ones you have lost touch
with, giving them a way to find you and re-connect.
I started to become more aggressive about adding my contacts in LinkedIn a few
years back when I was ask for a work reference for a technology I hadn't used
in a few year. I had since changed companies, cities and even countries a few
times. In a few click I was able to find people who worked with me on the said
technology.
> It's an incredibly useful repository of a generic sort of resume, and
Yes, I'm now actually annoyed when recruiters and contract agencies ask me for
my resume, especially the ones who found me on LinkedIn!
> while I wish that they'd quit trying to be facebook/twitter/whatever,
> I still like it.
I agree with you, although I think they have a huge opportunity to become the
professional blogging place.
In the past few years:
• google reader got killed
• less and less people publish anything on a personal blogs
• people use social website to publish what they used to blog about
• shorter and shorter material has become acceptable
• both personal and professional material are published in the same forums
• both well researched articles and 140 chars "thoughts" are published in the
same forums
This, has decreased the signal to noise ratio to the point that it isn't worth
the time to look for the good ones. I tend now to go back to known publishers,
Hacker News and very specific subreddits. There is a huge gap here, I could
see LinkedIn fill it.
--
Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/
Unix/Linux and Python specialist in Calgary.
http://blog.zioup.org/
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