At the time, I decided that LinkedIn was a grown-up version of Facebook or MySpace. Even though I have a MySpace page (go here) I have not taken that much further than just putting in links to this Blog and my Book Review Blog.
Well, today, I spent some time on LinkedIn and actually invited a few people to join my network. Funny thing is....apparently, many of them are now employees or former employees of Tel Bit Consulting. That being the case, I am sorry to inform you all that I will have to let you all go due to lack of funding. Sorry.
On the bright side, I found about 20 people I have known and worked with (or became friends with) in the past few years (and a few who started in this business so many years ago, I will not mention) who may still remember YeOldeTechy when I was YeYoungTechy. I invited them to join Tel Bit Consulting or Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Pretty cool. We will see how this evolves over time. It will actually be nice to hear from a few of the old old friends from way back.....if they accept.
Issues
LinkedIn needs to improve the invite usability, at least for me. I invited "colleagues", which to me means anyone I worked with while I was at LBL or now at Tel Bit Consulting. My good friend Ira called and gave me the low down on my mistake (he l-o-v-e-s doing that) and that he now works for Tel Bit Consulting........so I fired him. Hmmmm, that felt really good actually.
Conclusion
Go here to get LinkedIn....tell them YeOldeTechy sent you.
Here is an informative 9 minute YouTube video on How to Get Hired Using LinkedIn...hmmmm, I need to do this....
