Sneak Peak at Upcoming LinkedIn Article

I've recently been hitting the social networking scene, only I've taken a different path than most of my peers who are my age and younger. Instead of the MySpace addicts and FaceBook fiends, I hopped onboard LinkedIn.com, a professional networking site, to create an account and accept my initial invitation from a friend of mine who I do business with online. What started this "late bloomer" beginning in the world of social networking sites really had to do more with my current employment than personal desire. I work for an executive search firm that among other things desires more efficient and smarter ways of doing business. One of the reasons why I was brought on board was to help in this area. Fast forward to today, and I have a full-fledged LinkedIn premium account with 35 connections. Granted, that's a small number of connections (or "friends" for you MySpace folk), but you're looking at someone who had NO desire whatsoever to join and setup an account at a social networking site.

Next post, I will talk about the benefits of using LinkedIn both as a business user and for your own personal gain. I will also start to delve in other Web 2.0 technologies that I've begun to really start using, mostly at work. I'll mention several relevant articles that helped me to understand how these tools work, so that hopefully they can help you to do the same.

In the meantime, feel free to click on that shiny new button to the left that looks like this: to see my LinkedIn.com profile. Until next time!