Todd Lyden

I hate being a nitpick. But you Linkedin users who are using your business email to signup and use the platform might be in for a rude awakening. You DO NOT OWN that email. You WILL LEAVE that position someday. And when it happens, man... I'll let Andrew Brandt explain it much better than I , but how hard is it to just use your personal email?

909. That's how many "connections" I had amassed on Linkedin since January 2009. Well, I just "Hoovered" my connections. I went down the list, bit by bit, and removed a whopping 203 from the pile. Sadly, some of the folks had passed. I'd say about 1/4 never really used the platform at all even if I knew them well enough. I'd say another 1/4 might have meant to use the platform, but switched jobs, lost interest, or just didn't bother. It was surprising the number who had duplicate and even triplicate accounts (?) I was really surprised by the number of what I would consider "high profile" people I know that have poorly executed Linkedin accounts. I'm not in an area where Linkedin is perceived as a networking opportunity, but it is. I get requests DAILY from people I have no clue who they are. Somehow they found me. For some reason, they deem me important enough to get in their circles. I suspect it was just because it looked li...

I hate when something I like is discontinued. The TV Show Firefly. The Volcano burrito at Taco Bell. Now, the "Linkedin Resume Builder." It used to be that you could go to resume.linkedinlabs.com and login into your Linkedin account and then have a really nice tool to tweak your resume. I've not had to do this for myself in some time. I have however for clients and while there are come interesting alternatives that might allow you to import your Linkedin Profile. None are particularly good as the original for editing and making a presentable resume. I'd dare say the experiment has illustrated that there is a market for Linkedin to CHARGE for this service. "Sure, we provide you with a GREAT looking online resume, but you will pay to make it functional IRL." Don't be surprised if you see a paid for version of this service soon. Highly frustrating and sad that people have not caught on to it as even this article from last month was still touti...