Comments on: Are you Linked-In? http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2008/07/15/are-you-linked-in/ Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:42:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frank Feather http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2008/07/15/are-you-linked-in/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Frank Feather Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:20:07 +0000 http://www.veribatim.com/blog/?p=56#comment-115 Dear Kat: Thanks for posting about our pleasant meeting on LinkedIn. And so now, here I am, commenting on your Blog. :-) I fully agree with you that LinkedIn is *the* professional social network to join. I always recommend it to career hunters, for sure. That's a no brainer. But for me the most valuable feature of LinkedIn is its "Q&A" feature which, as you said, is where you and I met. As a professional, I highly recommend the Q&A feature as *the* best place anywhere online to "position" yourself. Yes, anywhere online — even better than one's own website or Blog, simply because LinkedIn attracts far more traffic. It has 20+ million professional users worldwide — way more than anyone can attract via their own website or Blog. By taking time to ask a Question, or better yet to Answer one, you can demonstrate your expertise on a whole variety of specialties. If you give a well-thought-out answer, there is a chance that the questioner will select it as the "best" answer. If so, that "best" answer then gets listed on your Profile at LinkedIn, as an area of your expertise. What could be better?! The plus, of course, is that one gets to meet other experts like you! :-) If you don't mind my mentioning it, one other site that I am finding to be very useful for "positioning" is Qassia. This is a new platform, still in Beta mode, where you can post articles. These can be original articles, or content that you have previously published as an article, in a book, on your website, or on your Blog. When you post articles on Qassia, or when you rate articles uploaded by other members, you earn a "credit" in "Qassia dollars". This is not real money, but it is a significant benefit. This is because Qassia allows you to list the URL links of as many of your own websites or Blogs as you like, and you get automatic backlinks to those sites. And the more "Qassia dollars" you have, the higher will be your traffic rating attached to your posted articles. Qassia's goal is to build a massive database of quality articles, which it calls "intel" (short for intelligence). And in my opinion this will become a highly-sourced directory, once Qassia comes out of Beta mode, which is imminent. So Qassia is going to be a prime place to position your expertise in cyberspace, and I am investing quite a bit of time uploading articles there. I recommend that any serious professional join there. Qassia works on an affiliate basis, and you need to be sponsored by an existing member to join. However, anyone interested may join via my Qassia page, the URL for which is: http://futurist.qassia.com/ . Just click on "Sign Up" in the left margin, fill out a brief Profile (see what I did), and start uploading your own "intel". As for other social networks, there are far too many to mention. But frankly speaking, almost none of them are worth the time of day to participate in. For most of them, I simply "park" my Profile there, just in order to be "found" in cyberspace at yet one more place. But I have no interest in being active there, and rarely check them, other than perhaps once a month. So, to conclude, my two main places right now are LinkedIn and Qassia. If anyone is aware of other solid, professional places where one can position their professional expertise, and meet other professionals, please let me know. My e-mail: Frank.Feather@gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frankfeather Cheers! Frank Dear Kat:

Thanks for posting about our pleasant meeting on LinkedIn. And so now, here I am, commenting on your Blog. :-)

I fully agree with you that LinkedIn is *the* professional social network to join. I always recommend it to career hunters, for sure. That’s a no brainer.

But for me the most valuable feature of LinkedIn is its “Q&A” feature which, as you said, is where you and I met.

As a professional, I highly recommend the Q&A feature as *the* best place anywhere online to “position” yourself. Yes, anywhere online — even better than one’s own website or Blog, simply because LinkedIn attracts far more traffic. It has 20+ million professional users worldwide — way more than anyone can attract via their own website or Blog.

By taking time to ask a Question, or better yet to Answer one, you can demonstrate your expertise on a whole variety of specialties. If you give a well-thought-out answer, there is a chance that the questioner will select it as the “best” answer. If so, that “best” answer then gets listed on your Profile at LinkedIn, as an area of your expertise. What could be better?!

The plus, of course, is that one gets to meet other experts like you! :-)

If you don’t mind my mentioning it, one other site that I am finding to be very useful for “positioning” is Qassia. This is a new platform, still in Beta mode, where you can post articles. These can be original articles, or content that you have previously published as an article, in a book, on your website, or on your Blog.

When you post articles on Qassia, or when you rate articles uploaded by other members, you earn a “credit” in “Qassia dollars”. This is not real money, but it is a significant benefit. This is because Qassia allows you to list the URL links of as many of your own websites or Blogs as you like, and you get automatic backlinks to those sites. And the more “Qassia dollars” you have, the higher will be your traffic rating attached to your posted articles.

Qassia’s goal is to build a massive database of quality articles, which it calls “intel” (short for intelligence). And in my opinion this will become a highly-sourced directory, once Qassia comes out of Beta mode, which is imminent.

So Qassia is going to be a prime place to position your expertise in cyberspace, and I am investing quite a bit of time uploading articles there. I recommend that any serious professional join there.

Qassia works on an affiliate basis, and you need to be sponsored by an existing member to join. However, anyone interested may join via my Qassia page, the URL for which is: http://futurist.qassia.com/ . Just click on “Sign Up” in the left margin, fill out a brief Profile (see what I did), and start uploading your own “intel”.

As for other social networks, there are far too many to mention. But frankly speaking, almost none of them are worth the time of day to participate in. For most of them, I simply “park” my Profile there, just in order to be “found” in cyberspace at yet one more place. But I have no interest in being active there, and rarely check them, other than perhaps once a month.

So, to conclude, my two main places right now are LinkedIn and Qassia. If anyone is aware of other solid, professional places where one can position their professional expertise, and meet other professionals, please let me know.

My e-mail: Frank.Feather@gmail.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frankfeather

Cheers! Frank

]]> By: sarah http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2008/07/15/are-you-linked-in/comment-page-1/#comment-107 sarah Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:04:37 +0000 http://www.veribatim.com/blog/?p=56#comment-107 Linkedin is really taking off, they just made About.com's top 10 employement site list too. (alphabetical order) http://www.careerbuilder.com http://www.craigslist.com http://www.hotjobs.com http://www.jobfox.com http://www.indeed.com http://www.linkedin.com http://www.monster.com http://www.realmatch.com http://www.simplyhired.com linkedin.com and Realmatch.com are the 2 newest additions. http://jobsearch.about.com/od/joblistings/tp/jobbanks.htm Linkedin is really taking off, they just made About.com’s top 10 employement site list too. (alphabetical order)

http://www.careerbuilder.com
http://www.craigslist.com
http://www.hotjobs.com
http://www.jobfox.com
http://www.indeed.com
http://www.linkedin.com
http://www.monster.com
http://www.realmatch.com
http://www.simplyhired.com

linkedin.com and Realmatch.com are the 2 newest additions.
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/joblistings/tp/jobbanks.htm

]]> By: Kat http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2008/07/15/are-you-linked-in/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Kat Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:33:55 +0000 http://www.veribatim.com/blog/?p=56#comment-100 Doyle, I hate to admit I did it too. In fact I didn't even really get down to sending everyone I had in my address book until you and I chatted. Its made a huge difference. Thanks for your continued encouragement! Doyle,
I hate to admit I did it too. In fact I didn’t even really get down to sending everyone I had in my address book until you and I chatted. Its made a huge difference. Thanks for your continued encouragement!

]]> By: Doyle Slayton http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2008/07/15/are-you-linked-in/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Doyle Slayton Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:22:48 +0000 http://www.veribatim.com/blog/?p=56#comment-98 Excellent article Kat! I was one of those "networkers" who joined LinkedIn and let it sit dormant for a year. I talk to countless people who are doing the same thing. My advice... learn to use the tool as soon as possible... it has the power to produce HUGE results! Doyle Slayton Sales and Leadership Strategist www.SalesBlogcast.com Excellent article Kat! I was one of those “networkers” who joined LinkedIn and let it sit dormant for a year. I talk to countless people who are doing the same thing. My advice… learn to use the tool as soon as possible… it has the power to produce HUGE results!

Doyle Slayton
Sales and Leadership Strategist
http://www.SalesBlogcast.com

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