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What is LinkedIn?

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LinkedIn Facts

  • LinkedIn has over 65 million members in over 200 countries.
  • A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of our members are outside the U.S.
  • Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members.

Relationships Matter

Your professional network of trusted contacts gives you an advantage in your career, and is one of your most valuable assets. LinkedIn exists to help you make better use of your professional network and help the people you trust in return. Our mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. We believe that in a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust.

 

Discussion started by Rosie Slosek , on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:19
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Rosie Slosek
Rosie Slosek
I support all of you on this. I do the same thing. I'm a big one for talking to strangers (i.e. people I don't know yet) but it's not the same as random connections. It's different if the person says there is a link and indicates they want to develop a relationship.
Saturday, 07 August 2010 21:54
 
Zuzana Sukopova
Zuzana Sukopova
I agree with you Louise - my policy too. I only link with people I know. But I go further. I don't even link with my ex colleagues if I don't rate them enough on a personal or character level...am I fussy? What do you think? It should be about their connections too that you want to make a use of...that's what LinkedIn is about.
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 16:35
 
Louise Farrell
Louise Farrell
Personally I agree - I have a policy that I won't link with anyone on LinkedIn until I know them. This seems to be fairly well received as I reply to invitations with the suggestion that we meet up before we link. I always want to ensure that my contacts know that anyone I have linked with is someone that I know.

What does anyone else think?
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 11:24
 
Ian Brearley
Ian Brearley
I recently had a request from an academic in London who I know nothing about. I don't know him from Adam and I'm just a bit reluctant to link up with him. Similarly I spotted the name of someone I had long lost touch with who was down as a contact of one of my contacts. I asked her where she knew him from and she had no idea. She knew nothing about him.

I feel this sort of thing devalues Linkedin or am I being overly picky?
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 10:35
 
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