Depends on what you use it for. I use it for marketing, so, it is a "brag wall." I highlight my years of experience, level of expertise, and some highlights of big cases. But, it does not look like a resume. I don't go into detail about past positions and education. Most people don't care (in my case, YMMV).

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Huh.

I've been leaning in the direction of "most people don't care" lately.

Thanks for the info.

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LinkedIn was just purchased by Microsoft so it will go down the toilet pretty soon.

FWIW I have a fair amount of detail on my profile because I was looking for a job. Now that I found said job, I haven't changed much in the past 18 months or so.

Funny, I just updated mine the other day. I've never really used it but had an account so I put on my job that I got in January. Now I'm getting people congratulating me on my new job, 5 months after I started.

I didn't put much information on my job, just a general idea of what I do. If there are other people in similar jobs, they would know what I do.

I'm not sure why I am on it to be honest.

The user experience of LinkedIn is horrible. I changed my settings to receive no alerts and also NOT to notify people of work anniversaries or any of that other BS. The whole social aspect of LinkedIn with people posting is just weird and a poor attempt of them to attract people on a daily basis.

The user experience of LinkedIn is horrible. I changed my settings to receive no alerts and also NOT to notify people of work anniversaries or any of that other BS.

You are missing out then.

Apparently, after receiving congratulatory notes on my new (5-month old) job, someone just endorsed me for a skill. The fact that I have never actually done anything remotely to deserve that endorsement is beside the point. It must be true, it's on LinkedIn.

I can see new and much better job offers flowing in any second now.

It is already in the toilet. They aren't relevant. They've been struggling. There are some ethical concerns such as they have been caught downloading address books from user's smartphones and then everyone in the address book receives the "connect on linked in" e-mails unbeknownst to the sender. Not cool.

MS will probably attempt to turn it into their own social media platform, geared toward business because MS still has a lockhold on businesses with Office and Windows. They may integrate the login with live/passport/msn/outlook/whatever.the.hell.they.are.calling.it.this.morning in the short term and update the front end looks with their branding. Not sure what they'd do long term. We'll see.

Oh yeah. Suckers. Linked-in isn't worth 1 billion let alone 26.

Having worked in executive search for the previous 11 years of my career I can tell you LinkedIn is a disrupter in that space. There are few ethics in recruiting, so that just lends itself well to the industry, it really is an eat what you kill business.

If this is what you think, then you're not using it correctly.

For B2B, we're struggling to find anything as close to relevant as LinkedIn is right now.

If you're just posting a profile, then you're not going to get much further than an online resume / business card.

If you publish on LinkedIn, then you'll establish yourself as an expert and drive your value up and / or sell more stuff.

I'm guessing you've published a total of "zero" on LinkedIn to date?

There's a big difference between being on stage giving the speech versus sitting in the audience listening to the speech. You're both in the same room but not even close to the same world.