Six types of people I’m Linkedin with

3 June 2010

I’ve got 49 pending Linkedin invitations in my inbox at the moment. I get a lot, partly because I have a lot of contacts on Linkedin (over 500). But I clearly don’t accept them all.

Matt Franklin (the architect in Shropshire who runs Ask The Architect) asked me tonight:
“@SuButcher Just been looking at Linkedin myself. What [...]

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Using Pull Marketing on Twitter (and how Push marketing won’t work)

31 May 2010
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You may have noticed from my last post that Linkedin is very like face-to-face networking in some ways. You’re not going to walk right up to a stranger and offer them your services (or shout at them for that matter). Instead you wait to be introduced. Polite.

Today I’m going to talk about Twitter, and in [...]

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Using Pull Marketing on Linkedin – don’t be Pushy!

27 May 2010
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Last time I defined Push and Pull Marketing in this way:
Push marketing is when the customer doesn’t want your product or service. Pull marketing is when the customer does want your product or service.
Now lets look at a couple of social tools. These tools put a greater number of people in touch with each other, [...]

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Pull Marketing – what it is and how to use it

26 May 2010
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Many people who don’t like networking on the internet won’t use it because they are concerned that it wastes their time.

If you want to make sure you don’t waste anyone’s time, and instead become a trusted contact of everyone you know, and get business out of online networking, then it is essential to learn about [...]

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Watch a new social tool take root – Woobius Eye

24 May 2010
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I first found out about Woobius, a startup company set up by architects and techies, at a be2camp event that, appropriately, I was attending via the internet. Now Woobius’ little multiplatform real-time-visual-chat application Woobius Eye has won the MEX 2010 award, just another step on a road to inevitable stardom.
So What’s a MEX Award?
Mex [...]

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Stop tweeting on Linkedin – should I give an ultimatum?

11 May 2010

Since my three posts on how to use Linkedin properly I’ve been thinking about what I should do. Should I put my money where my mouth is?

Earlier this year Linkedin and Twitter confirmed they had enabled Twitter-Linkedin integration. This is how it works. When you connect your linkedin account to your twitter account, you can [...]

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Using Linkedin Properly – 3: Ask for Help

5 May 2010
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If you’ve read my last two blog posts about this subject on Getting Found on Linkedin and particularly on Getting Connected on Linkedin, you might be thinking,
“Hang on a minute. I can connect to all these dozens of people, and send them information about my company and how great we are!”
or you might [...]

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Using Linkedin Properly – 2: Connect

30 April 2010
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Linkedin is huge, but this isn’t why I like it. I like Linkedin because it is useful. I’ve noticed, however, that people are not making use of it. Here is the second of three simple ways you can get so much more out of Linkedin, and your network will thank you for it.
2 – Connect, [...]

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Using Linkedin Properly – 1: Be Found

28 April 2010
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Linkedin is huge, but this isn’t why I like it. I like linkedin because it is useful. I’ve noticed, however, that people are not making use of it. Here is the first of three simple ways you can get so much more out of Linkedin, and your network will thank you for it.
1 – Be [...]

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A Very Innocent Rabbit

19 April 2010
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A funny thing happened to me on the way home from work on Friday.
I was innocently scanning the stream of people I follow on twitter when I noticed that @Innocentdrinks (the makers of the lovely Innocent smoothies my son loves so much) had a new ad, so iPhones being what they are, I clicked through [...]

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