September 2009

An email to a friend. Friend, I think you should get more involved with LinkedIn. I'm seeing more benefits as I explore LinkedIn. Do you think you have time to add more connections to your LinkedIn? As you said, Samuel your in LinkedIn all the time. Yea, I'm in there everyday now. Once you build your network you can stay on "top of mind awareness" with your network and the entire LinkedIn network. Today I discovered "polls". It would be great for you (friend is in the financial biz) to...

I've noticed that I'm getting unsolicited emails in the form of an email newsletter from all over the country using my "services" email address. People are phishing everywhere during this time of economic downturn. So what should I do and what have I been doing? 1) Mark them as Spam - this helps your email software to determine if it is spam or not. But it's best to 2) Unsubscribe - unsubscribing takes you off the list - so you don't even receive the email to begin with. Next you...

Today, I attended a social networking seminar presented by Nhat Pham (http://www.linkedin.com/in/nhatpham) with the Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce on LinkedIn, Facebook for businesses and Twitter. Even though I have been LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/samuellittle) for about a year now, it was good to hear it from an expert like Nhat. The seminar was just today so I haven't been able to use what I've learned...I'll have more posts on that later. One thing that I did do immediately is put my LinkedIn web address link on my email signature. My first impression...