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LinkedIn starts with your professional connections. Each friend or colleague you connect with gives you access to the network they have built. Some of your colleagues may already be LinkedIn users, and you can build your network quickly by finding and connecting with them.
LinkedIn seems to be the buzz for today - I saw references to it in a couple blogs and one email list that I follow.
I registered, but quit at the point of uploading contacts and inviting them to join.
First, call me cynical but I just don’t trust a website - no matter what promises they make - to use all that contact information responsibly. I also don’t trust them to remain viable for the long-haul (what IS the income model here?), and would rather maintain my contact information myself. I maintain contacts in Outlook, where they’re available for email, billing, and mail merges into other applications. I don’t want to maintain all that in two places.
Second, I don’t like to invite my contacts to join and use a site that I have no experience with. This is somewhat of a chicken and egg problem for LinkedIn - I guess the best thing to do is see if someone invites me to be part of their network.
And if that doesn’t happen…it’s going to feel like high school all over again…;)
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