The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur

One of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur is not having someone to bounce ideas off of. You don’t have anyone in the next cubicle to ask “hey, how do you do …”
However, if you’ve built a good social media network, you can have the next best thing.
I’m currently organizing a course - Getting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve always wanted a nice looking signature to go out on the bottom of your emails but aren’t tech savvy enough to do it yourself, LinkedIn as a simple tool for you.
LinkedIn signatures are compatible with Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, Outlook Express,
Mozilla Thunderbird, and Yahoo! Mail.
When you’re logged into your LinkedIn account, look to [...]

There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to social media networking. Whether you’re using LinkedIn, Facebook or other social media sites, most people are either an open networker or a selective connector.
Open networker is a term from the LinkedIn community. It refers to people who believe in building as wide a [...]