LinkedIn Working on Interesting Additions
If you’ve read my posts (I hope so!), you know I have a love/hate relationship with social media. One the positive side, it’s a great way to connect and be part of a community, share info and can be a useful marketing tool. The negative aspects are wasting too much productivity time on the sites, the danger of posting embarrassing or inappropriate content and the constant barrage of info about people we’ve never met and have zero interest in, etc.
Although I admit to not utilizing it much, I do like LinkedIn (no lucrative endorsement going on here, btw) for its professional applications. A former editor actually signed me up without my knowledge, but I have found it helpful. But a recent Wall Street Journal article, LinkedIn Wants Users to Connect More by Scott Morrison, acknowledges that the site lags behind others like Facebook in the community-building utilization by its members. According to the article, LinkedIn is mostly used by professionals to post resumes and for recruiters looking for candidates. Continue reading …
This is a post by Nancy LaFever. You can read more from her at the Centre for Emotional Wellbeing blog.
Article courtesy of Andrew G.R. and jobacle.com – your cure for carbon copy career advice!
