You're LinkedIn Status: Are You In?

[Kelli B Schmith]

A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and at last published count, over 45 million professionals are linked in. As far as I'm concerned, it's not "if" you're on LinkedIn, but what you're doing with it.

I'd love to gather some feedback from Smaller Indiana folks! Please weigh in on your use (or lack) of LinkedIn on this a one-question poll.

Cheers!

[Machelle Hartford]

I'm on linkedIn and aside from getting activity emails, I don't see that it has served me any real purpose. Maybe I thought that it would service for better networking or possible business exposure, but it has not. Warning about privacy: It has a way of going in and copying your entire email database without you selecting it to do so. What a nightmare! All my contacts from church, school, volunteering, neighbors, family etc. got an invitation to link to me without me wanting this to happen. Be very careful about letting it into your email account! As a result of this, I had to manually deselect dozens of people (to not be pestered by the reminder emails to link to me). So many people were confused about this and I ended up sending a blanket email to everyone apologizing for this inadvertent invitation to them.