💼Why I'm Happy LinkedIn is the Middle-of-the-Road Social Media Service
Three cheers for aggressively inoffensive social media: The Neal Ungerleider Newsletter #81
Confession time: I spend too much time on LinkedIn.
Yes, that LinkedIn. The cinnamon-maple instant oatmeal of social media services: Not offensive, not especially interesting, not terrible, the we’ll-have-it-when-it’s-the-hotel-continental-breakfast-and-the-fruits-look-meh-and-they-don’t-have-the-flavor-of-yogurt-we-like of social networks. Exactly that LinkedIn.
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You see, I run my own business. And LinkedIn is very helpful when you run your own business.
Use LinkedIn right and you can find potential clients. You can find out when your contacts move on to new jobs at new companies (important!), network with people in your industry in the middle of a pandemic (important!!) and kinda sorta infer which companies will pay outside vendors to do which kinda projects for them (really important!!!).
That’s why I thought it was so interesting to see that:
1) LinkedIn is launching a creator program. Says LinkedIn News EIC Daniel Roth:
Creators are the lifeblood of Link…
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