Category Archives: professional networking

LinkedIn implements “living profiles” that incorporate entries from the profile-owner’s blog

From an article in the March 25, 2010 issue of Fortune magazine: As companies turn to the web to mine for prospective job candidates, it’s no longer advantageous to refrain from broadcasting personal information. Instead, the new imperative is to present your professional skills as attractively as possible, packing your profile with keywords (marketing manager, global [...]
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Top performers focus on building high-quality professional networks, rather than large ones

From an advance copy of forthcoming 2010 book The 2020 Workplace: According to Dr. Robert Cross, a professor of management at the University of Virginia, the high performers in an organization focus on building high-quality social networks rather than large ones. From a 2006 paper (.pdf) co-authored by Rob Cross: Most high performers succeed by developing targeted networks [...]
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Obama education adviser: “21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students.”

From The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment To Equity Will Determine Our Future, a forthcoming 2010 book by Stanford professor and Obama education adviser Linda Darling-Hammond: 21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students. …Also key is the creation of networks that allow teachers, leaders, schools [...]
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2009 book Enterprise 2.0: “Blogs have several properties that make them well suited for converting potential ties into actual ones.”

More from Enterprise 2.0: “First, they are easy to update…This allows people to, in the words of blog pioneer Dave Winer, ‘narrate their work’…” “Enterprises have long realized both the value of converting potential ties into actual ones…”
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