Social Networking Seriously
A former student of mine sent me his LinkedIn site the other day. Are you LinkedIn? It's not a bad idea to set up an account.
LinkedIn calls itself the social networking site for older people (oh great!). It's not really MySpace for geriatrics. Think of it as a "mature" form of MySpace. It's networking the way we used to think of it – getting to know people who may be interested in your job or business, not picking up friends like a 14-year-old.
LinkedIn allows users to register their professional information on a personal site and send it out to the world for others to comment, offer advice or provide more contacts. It's free, but there are premium services if you want to build yourself a super-loaded site.
I haven't really fixed up my LinkedIn site yet, but plan to. In the mean time, I left a reference for my former student and wished him luck in his own networking. I like the whole idea. It certainly beats the old way of networking. (See my previous commentary on rubber chickens.)