What LinkedIn is all about and why you as an Entrepreneur can make use of it

LinkedIn: The MySpace for adults - December 1, 2006

LinkedIn is a three-year-old service that takes your personal business network online. People don’t use it to discover new bands or track down a date - there’s nothing social about this network.

LinkedIn is all about business: recruiting, sales, investment. It’s not exactly a marketplace or a job site but rather a community of more than 8 million people who rely on one another to get things done.

And not just any 8 million people, but leading venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, along with tens of thousands of employees from Google (Charts), Microsoft (Charts), and other tech giants that use LinkedIn to find the best and brightest workers.

A psychologist I know told me how he distinguishes parental praise from encouragement. When your children come home with an “A” on their report and you say “Good job!” you’re
praising them. It’s a great thing. However, it would be even better to encourage
them by saying, “I’m so proud of how hard you worked to get such a great grade.
I know you’re going to be successful at whatever you do because you’re so
diligent.” Children feed off those statements. Provide them a smorgasbord of
it. - from my friends Hans