The Social Media Breakfast Club - Via The Comit Developers Blog

The Social Media Breakfast Club (Shanna Perkins via The Comit Developers Blog)

Shanna Perkins, SEO & Internet Marketing Specialist at Comit Developers, wrote a great post on the different strengths and weaknesses of the most popular social media platforms last week.

Given that I'm old enough to remember watching The Breakfast Club in the movie theaters, I was particularly fond of her use of the characters from the movie to describe the traits of each social media platform.  It's a great way to offer a perspective that everyone can relate to - even if you didn't watch the movie ;)

LinkedIn transforms Contacts section into super-powered personal assistant that integrates with EVERYTHING

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Today, LinkedIn released a few important new features for members that really turbo-charges their Connections section of the site.  In addition, they released a new mobile app called Contacts for Apple devices (with other platforms slated for future release dates).

If you're like me, you have probably already imported some of your Contacts into LinkedIn from your gMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc accounts.  Which was great...except of course, that it was a one-time affair.  If you have added any contacts since your original import, those won't appear on your LinkedIn Connections because the import is a one-way process.

Well, go back and do it again, because now LinkedIn creates a permanent connection to your mail system's contacts and will keep your contacts synchronized between those systems (should you choose to permit it) and your LinkedIn profile.  Unbelievably, LinkedIn also now supports synching your mobile device's contact lists with your LinkedIn profile if you also install the mobile application.

I've finally got my LinkedIn Profile mostly complete...

It definitely took me way longer than I expected, but I figured since I recently left Dell I would go ahead and update my LinkedIn Profile to try and make sure I kept in touch with the many great people I've had a chance to work with over there. It took longer than I expected because I really didn't realize how much stuff there is on LinkedIn!

I had a few friends shoot me notes about joining LinkedIn, though I pretty much procrastinated on getting my account setup (sorry for those of you who've been inviting me over the last couple of months!!!) If you haven't checked it out yet, you definitely should - if for no other reason you'll have that fun Facebook friend experience for those people who you connected with at your previous jobs / schools. Funnily enough, I described it to Sam the other day as Facebook for grownups...of course now that everyone (including my Mom) is on Facebook, I guess that description may not be as accurate...