Jasper Jottings —————————————- The achievement journal of my fellow alums

FROM A LINKEDIN EMAIL EXCHANGE

>I created the Manhattan College group on LinkedIn.

Wow, I did the same thing. I paid them the 100$ to have a group. LinkedInJaspers. I only had 23 people join.

What’s yours? Did you do better?

fjohn68

On 12/28/07 9:45 AM, James Curcurato wrote:
——————–
John,

I joined Facebook, MySpace and a few others and found them all inappropiate for business networking and in some cases, inappropriate for social networking as well. I use LinkedIn because it is professional in its appearance and purpose.

I noticed when doing searches for people in LinkedIn, the search results were derived not from the total LinkedIn population but rather a subset of the total population, specifcally, people in my network. Therefore, in order to be successful in finding who I am looking for, it encourages me to expand my network.

I have tried to be selective about who I add to my network attempting to limit it to people I would truly feel comfortable asking for an introduction or recommendation and for the most part have been successful.

I thought having a common bond such as a college alum, for example you and I, would suffice in my mind to justify a request to jon my network. That is why I created the Manhattan College group on LinkedIn.

James

On 12/3/07 7:14 PM, John Reinke wrote:
——————–
The MC alum office has new people in it. I have a MC Alum Yahoo Group and Distribute-Jasper-Jottings group. There’s a semi-active MC NYC group, a Young Jaspers Group, and some other small local groups in FL, Buffalo, and , and some other “splinter cities:. There are groups in Facebook, MySpace, Freindster, and some other ones and twos.

So what type of group are you trying to start?

fjohn

On 12/3/07 10:34 AM, James Curcurato wrote:
——————–
John, I will share my thoughts with you regarding the LinkedIn “network” under separate cover but in short, I share your disappointment with your informal survey however am not suprised.

On a separate subject, after a few unanswered E-mails to the MC Alumni Office requesting they do so, I have created a Manhattan College group. I am looking for someone to search for and attempt to join the group so I can see what happens from an adimistrative point of view as it is unclear to me in the documentation how the process works. If you can help, let me know.

Thank you,

James

Question Details:
——————–
Has anyone tested the “liveliness” of their LinkedIn “network”?

http://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/12/01/linkedin-results-of-my-one-month-test-on-liveliness-37-im-disappointed/

http://tinyurl.com/ytnda9

LINKEDIN: Results of my one month test on “liveliness” — 37%! I’m disappointed

Saturday, December 1, 2007

On November 1st, I hit upon the idea of “Liveliness” testing of my LinkedIn “network”.

(We can chat why my “LinkedIn network” is NOT my “network”. And, if what one does with LinkedIn is “networking”. It’s not Lucht’s version of face to face networking. But, it is doing “something”. Just don’t know if it should be called “networking” except in the loosest sense of the word.)

Is anyone aware of any formal testing of LinkedIn networking? All I ever see is anecdotal stories. Any one applying Six Sigma to LinkedIn?

Thanks,
fjohn