I will admit, I’m not a social networking master, but I did make my way up through Friendster, had a profile on MySpace before it became the band and pornstar networking mega-site. I never thought I’d spend that much time on Facebook (was scared it would become a time-suck), but recently a client had me do some research and propose some marketing ideas using that network. (Yes, I was paid to spend time on Facebook and I am amazed by the number of people that I know there).
But the site I spent the most time on is LinkedIn.
I’m a LinkedIn poweruser, having a network of more than 3,600 contacts and am a member of the LinkedIn LIONS (LinkedIN Open Networkers) and MyLink500. I find the site useful for business development and to get to know people I meet and might want to work with.
Occasionally, I also Twitter.
You might be wondering, how much time do I spend networking on social networking sites. The answer, not more than 15 minutes. And that’s been pretty consistent for the past year or so. Occasionally, it’ll take me longer but I try to keep it to 15 minutes since there are more valuable uses of my time.
Tags: Productivity
Boston.com gives a great info-graphic on how to improve your napping habit. Whether you nap or not, it’s definitely worth reading.
Did you know: Mammals are programmed for 2 periods of intense sleepiness? It’s no wonder the coffee isn’t working.
Highly recommended.
Tags: useful sites · Productivity
Here’s an article that has a formula for naming your start-up.
There are pros and cons to following formulas.
Pros, it’s easy, or seems to be.
Cons, it can limit your creativity and might not work.
Tags: useful sites
Wendy Bounds at the Wall Street Journal’s Independent Street, a resource for entrepreneurs, posted a list of 15 Blogs by Entrepreneurs Worth Reading. Among them are the well known – Seth Godin, John Janatsch, Guy Kawasaki, Kevin Kelly (best domain name of the bunch!) and Mark Cuban, the (perhaps) lesser known and several others that look like they are worth checking out.
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Om Malik at Gigaom gives a nice evaluation on LinkedIn’s recent $1billion valuation. By his calculations, the site is worth a little more than $1 billion due to the number of users.
People who know me know that I am a huge LinkedIn user (full disclosure: I’m a Premium User with 3.5K in my network) but this valuation is a little bittersweet since I’ve been getting a lot of errors at LI lately. On the messageboards, I’ve been seeing a fair amount of complaining about issues heavy users have been having.
That said, I reconnected with an old acquaintance in Holland. A guy I hadn’t spoken with in nearly 20 years. And it was great to reconnect. And, compared to other social networking sites, LinkedIn is by far the most professional and easiest to use.
So, yeah, bittersweet.
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