Read Notes from a Scot Herrick asks is LinkedIn useful? What do you get out LinkedIn? What would it take to make it more useful?
I get only a little of value. When helping a friend conduct a job search recently it was helpful in figuring out who to introduce him to. Finally its just plain fun to see who you're friends are connected to. One of my friends has over 600 contacts - confirming what I've always known - he's a great connector.
I also get some traffic from having my blog as my home page on Linked-in. In theory it will also help keep track of people who change their email addresses.
Next time I do my own job search I'm sure that most of the value will come from taking a few good friends out for lunch. In that case Linked will just be a good reminder of who to talk to.
As I've said before (Online Code Reviews suck - even Guido van Rossum can't fix that) nothing beats face to face communications.
How do you use LinkedIn?
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