I had a colleague email me the other day. He'd been wanting to accept invitations sent to him to connect at LinkedIn, but every time he tried, LinkedIn was wanting to access his Gmail address book before he could go any further. So he would stop and not proceed. It's been a long time since I opened my account at LinkedIn but I know that you don't have to let LI access your address book. Once he sent me a snapshot of what he was getting, I was able to tell him what he could do, to open an … [Read more...]