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How LinkedIn Blew It
It seems like for a while that collecting connections was a sport. I suppose everyone was trying like hell to get as horizontal as they can, anticipating some way to make money later on would materialize. The way for most people to make money involves some kind of action. How do you do that on LinkedIn? There is no way. In networking circles, you have to have your “Ask”. What do you want? It is really hard on LinkedIn to even do that level of basic networking functionality. But, networking is even more than the “Ask”. It’s buying and selling. LinkedIn has taken this attitude that selling something is bad. They have failed to model the real world networking interactions of its participants. So, it’s like we’re all in this big room, with nametags and resumes in hand…sipping punch. We keep updating the resumes in our hands and making bigger name tags. Some of us get poster boards and make big signs to tell people what we do. We can all text each other, as long as we know each other. But we’re not allowed to talk to the person next to us. The fire marshall is here, now.
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How LinkedIn Blew ItIt seems like for a while that collecting connections was a sport. I suppose everyone was trying like hell to get as horizontal as they can, anticipating some way to make money later on would materialize. The way for most people to make money involves some kind of action. How do you do that on LinkedIn? There is no way. In networking circles, you have to have your “Ask”. What do you want? It is really hard on LinkedIn to even do that level of basic networking functionality. But, networking is even more than the “Ask”. It’s buying and selling. LinkedIn has taken this attitude that selling something is bad. They have failed to model the real world networking interactions of its participants. So, it’s like we’re all in this big room, with nametags and resumes in hand…sipping punch. We keep updating the resumes in our hands and making bigger name tags. Some of us get poster boards and make big signs to tell people what we do. We can all text each other, as long as we know each other. But we’re not allowed to talk to the person next to us. The fire marshall is here, now.
