Author Topic: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)  (Read 3881 times)

Keith Whitener

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Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« on: March 03, 2010, 03:31:19 AM »
FOT's gotta stick together! So let's all help each other out in what little ways we can. I'm not sure how helpful LinkedIn is or can be, but I figure it's worth a shot.

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Barry Egan

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2010, 04:12:41 AM »
You need help.

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2010, 11:15:07 AM »
This ain't happenin.
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

Keith Whitener

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2010, 11:20:26 AM »

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2010, 11:24:50 AM »
I don't remember my LinkedIn login or password and so I can't even delete the damn thing.  I get constant requests and they're all just sitting there.
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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2010, 11:38:41 AM »
I get constant requests and they're all just sitting there.

Yeah, me too (not braggin'). Though I do remember my password, I just can't bother. I get why some of my friends use it (tech people, software developers, educators, etc) - but why the hell should I?

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2010, 12:39:59 PM »
FOT's gotta stick together! So let's all help each other out in what little ways we can. I'm not sure how helpful LinkedIn is or can be, but I figure it's worth a shot.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/benkharakh

Help me help you help me (and you!)

I added you.
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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2010, 03:05:17 PM »
Even as an IT guy who had to look for a job late last year and used the site, LinkedIn was only marginally useful.

What I dislike about it the most is that people can't really be themselves on it, they have to be their resume/CV selves, which is like some forced, miserable, formally dressed "I'll happily jump into your hamster wheel!" thing that reflects how little the cogs of employment practice have developed over the decades.


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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2010, 05:31:41 PM »
I just had to set up a profile there. As an online business card, it's great, but I don't see myself as going through the hassle of adding new business contacts and stuff.

Keith Whitener

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2010, 07:11:27 PM »
I thought the aim was to add people for the purpose of advancing one's career.

Barry Egan

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2010, 11:04:27 PM »


Settle down, Hitler.

Keith Whitener

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Re: Networking FOT Style (AKA Add me on LinkedIn)
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2012, 12:18:15 AM »
I'm at it again! Jeeze, me, give it a rest! Seriously, though, I have no idea how people use this thing to "get ahead".