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Getting to grips with LinkedIn

31 March 2011 in Internet by Stilgherrian | No comments

Thanks to my recent posts about my confusion about the point of LinkedIn and coming to the conclusion that LinkedIn is a giant Rolodex, I was treated by their PR firm to a briefing session. Here’s what I learned.

On Monday Shiva Kumar, an associate director at Edelman, spent 90 minutes over coffee running through the advanced features, mostly following the sequence of items in How Journalists Use LinkedIn.

The key lesson for me was that while LinkedIn is certainly useful for recruiters and job-hunters, it’s even more powerful when you think of it as a global database of professionals and their skills, experiences and connections, and use it for smart data mining — and by that I mean data mining that’s aware of the structure of people’s working relationships.

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How the Internet sees me, apparently

21 August 2009 in Internet, Personal by Stilgherrian | 16 comments

MIT Personas image for Stilgherrian: click to embiggen

This image is supposedly some sort of profile of me, concocted from data gathered on the Internet by Personas, a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum.

I have no idea why such a big proportion is allocated to sport. But, hey, play with it yourself.

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