Are you LinkedIn?

April 26, 2007 at 12:45 pm · Filed under Housekeeping

I received an email yesterday from someone I worked with at USWeb in Boston more than eight years ago. It was great to reconnect! He found me on the professional networking tool called LinkedIn. I created an account with LinkedIn a few years ago, but hadn’t logged in lately.

So last night I tried searching for old friends and was surprised at how popular this tool has become. I found former employers, previous coworkers, and even my college roommate (from 10+ years ago). What fun! Want to see who we know in common?

I heard from some other freelancers that this is a great way to manage references and recommendations. Instead of having to bug your references time and time again for recommendations (each time you get a new freelance client), you can invite them to join your LinkedIn network and view your recommendations. That sounds like a good idea to me… time to bug my references once more :-)

1 Comment »

  1. Skhan said,

    April 27, 2007 @ 10:46 am

    Hey… I haven’t heard about LinkedIn before. I thought I should join it. Wow! they had an option for students as well !.. and they had my Uni’s name in their list, grrrreat!
    I felt LinkedIn is not only a good connection tool but also a well maintained and well managed web site.
    (after all they welcome students and they had my university’s name in their list :P )

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