Idea: LinkedIn Recommendations for You As a Blogger
We all know that social media is very important. Especially as we move into 2009, I think people who know how to use social media will find themselves with a kind of social security blanket.
If you’re anything like me, you tend to forget about LinkedIn. I have a profile on the site (of course), but I don’t spend any time doing much of anything with it. Most of my time is spent on Twitter, Facebook or Friendfeed.
Some time ago, Louis Gray hit me up for a recommendation of him on LinkedIn. Louis Gray is a pretty prominent blogger in the social media space and definitely worth the read. What was interesting about this request, though, was that it was a recommendation of him as the author of his blog.
Novel idea! Why not treat your position as an author of your own blog as an actual position, and use LinkedIn to seek testimonials from your network?
Testimonials and recommendations are always good for your reputation. Not to mention that you can potentially use them for marketing purposes if the need ever arises.
Don’t discount LinkedIn (I’m speaking to myself here, too). Unlike the major contenders out there, LinkedIn revolves around your professional career. In this era of recession talk and job insecurity in some circles of the economy, updating and using your LinkedIn profile is a pretty good idea.
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Comments
I wasn’t even really aware of LinkedIn until a couple weeks ago. I’d heard the name, but didn’t pay it any attention. I signed up last week, I think, but haven’t done much with it. It certainly does sound like a very powerful networking tool, one with a little more… integrity?… than Facebook or the like.
Thanks for the reminder, and enjoy the rest of your vacation!
I added louisgray.com to my LinkedIn profile at the beginning of 2008, after two years of active posting, once I figured it was important enough to feature alongside my work efforts.
The first endorsement came as a surprise, and got me thinking it would make sense to ask my peers to do the same. I find it a lot more valuable than just selecting the blog as a “favorite” in Technorati, for example.
Very thoughtful, I never thought of singing up at linkedin because I was not aware of the networking power there, I basically use FB, myspace, and twitter as well, but will sign up on linkedin now too. By the way you have a nice blog going on here. Very good info to grasp on.
I’ve considered this, not for my general purpose blog, but for my collection of specialized blogs, but haven’t done it yet.
Ironically, two of the recommendations for my day job are from people who know me from my general purpose blog, so perhaps I should reconsider.
I like your point about LinkedIn revolving around your professional career.
I’ve seen some people have outstanding success with LinkedIn in terms of traffic growth.
It surprised me, so I had to start to pay attention.
Interesting thought, as I used LinkedIn a lot in my offline business. Trouble is I can’t mix the two up for anonymity reasons, so I’m going to set up a new LinkedIn profile for this later ego. I’ll let you know how it goes! Thanks for the tip!