Re: [NTLK] [ANN] NewtonTalk on LinkedIn

It's sort of like facebook. But for grown ups. :-)
Instead of accumulating "friends'" you're accumulating "contacts".
It's definitely useful for business networking. When i was on the job
market, I got plenty of well targeted approaches from headhunters.
As a hiring manager, a LinkedIn profile is very useful in giving me a
little more information about a candidate.

Here's my public profile, to give you a flavour:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonjf

-Simon

On May 2, 2008, at 5:14 PM, dotline7 wrote:

> Is it like FaceBook? Who is allowed? What a discussion profile?
> John
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> On 5/2/08 10:35 PM, "Morgan Aldridge" <morgant@makkintosshu.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 5/2/08, G. Isten <gisela@tariffenet.it> wrote:
>>>
>>> I beg forgiveness -- but what is the reason for creating a second
>>> Newton
>>> talk group? Where's the benefit?
>>
>> This NewtonTalk mailing list is still _the_ place for discussion.
>>
>> LinkedIn is a service for business/professional networking and so the
>> NewtonTalk group provides a way for members to locate other NTLK
>> members who may be able to provide professional resources and/or
>>
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