The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur

Those who haven’t tried the micro-blogging tool Twitter - and even some who have - wonder how it can be useful. If you’re Tweeting 140 characters into the ether, how does that help you build relationships?
It took me a while to figure it out, but now that I know the secret, I’ve found Twitter to [...]

I find that many of my LinkedIn contacts are not people I have in my email address book. As I get to know my LinkedIn connections I gradually accumulate more information about them: phone numbers, addresses, personal information. In order to keep track of it all, I’ve been creating an entry for them in my [...]

Recently I’ve tried to find contact information for a couple of people and failed miserably. I found it terribly frustrating and began to wonder why someone would make it so hard to be found.
The first was the guest of a teleseminar I attended. He was talking about using LinkedIn and invited participants to connect with [...]

The more I use Twitter, the more I have come to rely on it. It’s fast, fun to use and has become an essential business tool. In spite of this, I frequently get questions from people who have heard of Twitter but have never used it. The gist of most of the questions is “what’s [...]

Yesterday LinkedIn announced an amazing new feature on their site: you can now have discussions within your LinkedIn groups.
It seems like a no-brainer to me, but for a long time LinkedIn groups didn’t have this feature. All you could really do with a group you were a member of is look at the profiles of [...]