A remark from a friend and my fascination with how people communicate and relate to one other led me to use LinkedIn yesterday. Despite registering months ago, I hadn’t actively connected with business associates through the site.
According to LinkedIn, there are already 9 million professionals in the LinkedIn Network. In the last 24 hours, I’ve added close to six thousand of those individuals to my network. Whether this proves beneficial to me or not is yet to be seen.
Here are some observations though:
• Millennials ARE plugged in. (DUH!)
The first ten or so people to officially connect with me were all under the age of 30. We’ve all read that this generation is connected to their keyboards. If you could have seen how fast they responded to my LinkedIn invite, you would believe it!
• Women may be better networkers
In my network, women have more connections then men and therefore larger networks. Does this reflect women's well-documented emphasis on relationships?
• Personal relationships still rule
Nothing is a more powerful marketing tool than a verbal referral. An electronic recommendation on LinkedIn is great, but it will never replace a verbal referral.
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