LinkedIn: An analysis ...

Over the past little while I've become a regular user of LinkedIn, especially during my unemployed period. In that time I looked for people working in my location in my area of expertise. I also looked for groups discussing issues, new ideas, etc in my area of expertise/interest. The groups I joined have been of great interest and benefit to me in developing my personal knowledge management/network learning.

While my new job didn't come through LinkedIn the possibility is there.

The following Infographic provides a really good overview of what LinkedIn offers to its users.

Do you use LinkedIn? What have you found particularly useful?

What I've been reading ...

I thought I would share with you the posts I've read over the past few days (from Google Reader, Twitter, etc)

The first comes from Learning Solutions Mag which discusses how people can be very excited about a new innovation (be it technology or something else) when other people find it scary ...



This blog discusses an organisation's lack of hierarchy. Could be scary for someone like me who likes working in a structured workplace, however, I can see that it could work well for some businesses.

Anne's Spot on serendipity:

Serendipity helped me discover people, concepts,  and ideas that I would have never known before

Anne reflects on her experiences of using social media. I find her experiences quite similar to my own.

Harold Jarche is always a good read. I like the way he talks about personal knowledge management/networked learning. He's been working in this area for many years and for me is my mentor. This read is about why he blogs.

Like Harold, blogging has become a means of making sense of my personal knowledge management/networked learning plus it enables me to share my thoughts with you, my dear readers.

Why do you write a blog? Who do you connect with to learn serendipitously from? How do you 'sell' social media to others without scaring them?

A Twitter Attack

Yesterday, a person I follow on Twitter was hacked and then I was! The message:

I foolishly tried clicking the link and that must have been the go ahead for the same message to be sent from my account to all my followers. Yuk.

A kind follower alerted me:

I've now changed my password and hope that this is enough to stop the hacker. 

And then I noticed the following tweets:

What the ...? I have no interest in weight loss (the bottom tweet is mine though and has nothing to do with weight loss!)

Have you had the same or similar experience? What did you do?