Great post! LinkedIn for me has been a very valuable tool that I use to help me help my clients. It’s amazing how all levels of employees can use LinkedIn as a tool – HR to find quality candidates – Marketing to find designers, experts and new tools, Sales to brainstorm leads and share economic stimulus ideas, Manufacturing to develop systems and gauge feasibility. I’m still learning something every day!

Also I did a presentation to my local DMA group. Anyone wants a copy, email me, jimdirect@aol.com

I’m glad you are a member of Toastmasters. I am also. I’m the VP of Education and I need to create the agenda today!

Yes, you can increase your membership by starting a Toastmasters Group. Maybe Call it “DePaul Speakers and Leaders – Toastmaster Club” and start inviting people to the group using the LinkedIn invite group. Also, you might want to create a meetup.com group. We’re doing this in the whole San Diego district.

Thanks,

Jorge Olson

So far, I’ve used it to connect to grad students at DePaul where I’ll be attending later this year. My next step is to figure out how to find funding for school. I think maybe I should work more with the advanced search feature like you mentioned in your post starting with fellowship as my keyword.

It would be nice to see if there’s an effective way to use it to attract guest attendance at my Toastmasters International club as well. I’m the VP of Membership so growing the size of the club is my responsibility.

I’m going to subscribe to your feed and become a regular reader. I’m also going to click Krill’s link from his comments and see if there are some use cases that I can apply to either of my situations.

Thanks again.

It is about doing for others, not about others doing for you. To get value, offer value. Provide feedback, answer questions, share ideas – creat a following. Then those followers will feel obligated to assist you.

The value of Linkein really depends upon the person.

If you are looking for friends to reconnect with then its simple and requires not much time to set-up.

However, if you are a business and trying to gain exposure then it takes a little more time but can be very effective.

As with most I started out adding friends so we could reconnect/stay-in-touch but soon after noticed others that were connected, groups they joined and thought they were on to something. I decided to check out some of the groups they joined and they seemed really powerful and asking questions on subjects I thought I could help answer.

Before I knew it the traffic on my webpage grew because I promoted it through the answers I posted to others questions. – This is the value I see in this site!

Thank you much for your great post.

I will spend some time at your site and yes, let’s talk on the phone. My nunber is 619 852 6942.

Jorge Olson