How often are you in LinkedIn? I'm logged in every day. I have multiple tabs saved as my 'home pages' and LinkedIn is one of them. So I'm prompted to be there every day, checking for messages, invitations and articles and posts of interest. LinkedIn is a great networking tool, if you use it as intended. LinkedIn never intended for us to connect with strangers but with people we knew or had a passing acquaintance with. Of course, these days they make it really easy to connect with strangers by … [Read more...]
Strange happenings at LinkedIn
Invitations I never sent. Are you getting acceptances from people for invitations you haven't sent at LinkedIn? I've had the same thing happen. These are for people I do not know personally and would not be in any address contact list that I own. They are genuine in that I can go to LinkedIn and see the acceptance message, but I don't know the people and have never conversed with them via a forum or other means. LinkedIn does have a discussion forum and there have been many people complaining … [Read more...]