This tip came courtesy of Mary Gillen. Want to search for links shared by a specific person on Twitter, and avoid the rest of the blah blah blah? In the Twitter search form, be more specific: from:Twitterusername filter:links Example: from:stayingintouch filter:links Read Full Story

How to Write a LinkedIn Recommendation (8 steps) To be successful in Social Networking, you must use the VCP model. VCP stands for Visibility, Credibility and Profitability. Simply stated, people must know who you are and trust you before they will consider doing business with you. LinkedIn recommendations give you an opportunity to gain credibility and visibility. Needless to say that having good recommendations by a 3rd parties go a long way to establish your credentials with people who don... Read Full Story

Thanks to Nate Kievman I just learned how to add a Video Profile to LinkedIn. To see how it is integrated on my LinkedIn profile, go to my profile on LinkedIn.  Be sure to click on the view full profile. If you do, be sure to drop me a note. Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase I’ve written before about the Visibility, Credibility & Profitability (VCP) process in Social Networking. Simply put, to make Social Networking work for you, people first need to know who you are (Visibility.) Then they need to trust that you are genuine and that you will add value to them (Credibility.) Only when these two stages are met, people will be willing to give you their direct or referral business. Earlier today I sent a message to my network co... Read Full Story

Image by ifindkarma via Flickr The proper way to use  LinkedIn introductions is to put yourself in the shoes of the people who you will be asking to introduce you. Remember that what you are asking them to do is to put themselves out there for you. If the result of the introduction is a bad one, that will reflect poorly on the people who are facilitating the introduction. The flip side is also true. If the introduction is a good one then the person who facilitates the introduction gain... Read Full Story

In my previous post, I discussed the process of getting introductions via your LinkedIn connections.  LinkedIn offers three levels of connections. There is my direct contacts. Those contacts’ contacts. And then there are the contacts’ contacts’ contacts. Let’s say I wanted to connect with Steve Griffin. I  did a search and found out that five people in my network are connected to him (see below.)  I can then send any (or all) of those folks a request to introduce me to... Read Full Story

All you really need to do is be interested in people. Forget about “networking”.  Please read Stephanie Booth’s short post on the subject of building a network. Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase LinkedIn is a wonderful engine for building relationships and networking. One of the best tools LinkedIn offers is the ability to search for particular individuals in your network and to be referred to them by your network. Say you are wating to connect with me. You could do a search for Rick Itzkowich and then you would see if any of the people in your network are connected to me. If they are, you could send me an introduction via one of them. They would then forw... Read Full Story

Ivana Taylor is a friend of mine whom I met via LinkedIn, recently published a wonderful post on a question that is on a lot of people’s minds when it comes to Social Networking: “How will this make me money?” Click here to read her post. Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia It’s been a while since I last posted. A lot has been going on since my last post and yet much of it relates to Social Networking. I am now a featured columnist with The National Networker (TNNW), a fabulous resource for networking both online and offline. I became a columnist as a result of having met someone on Biznik, who referred me to Adam Kovitz and Douglas Castle. This is very exciting because it offers me a lot of exposure as well as meeting other very... Read Full Story