Linked In - Like any tool , knowing how to use it is the key

LinkedIn sent me an email that a former adjunct at UCC, Anita Rose, wanted to connect.  I always check out the people who sent these invitations because I want to know the people I connect to either F2F or virtually, otherwise LinkedIn loses some of its value for everyone.  My buddy, Stephen Nacco, had left one of the best recommendations for Anita that I had every read. That reminded me that I was going to leave recommendation for students over winter break. 

Howard is on the Union County Foundation Board.  He is looking for way to connect with Alums.  I create a LinkedIn Group for UCC Professors.  But there is none for UCC alums.  But there is search and over 7500 LinkedIn profile say they are students or alums of UCC. WOW. This can be filtered by

• Where they live
• Where they work 
• What they do 

I sent a connect message to a dozen of them and 4 responded within an hour.  Yeh, this is gonna work.  And when I did a standard search for Union County College under School  interesting only 6,717 were in the USA. Fascinating.

A side diversion   LinkedIn suggested a link to Karen Freidt. Her title., "Lead, NASA's Navigation Center for Creativity, Collaboration & Innovation" really exited me. So I broke my rule and sent a connect request. We share 1 connection, so it went through. I Googled her and found her Twitter 
(followed her).

This led me to Karen's blog. It is full full of wonderful art and inspirational sayings.
And Karen's YouTube. 
I shared all this with my wonderful daughter-in-law
Christine since she is my #1 artist. 



Karen's tweet led me to Harvard Business Review blog post "What’s the Point of Creativity?" from Sept 1, which I diigo'ed  under creativity.

I also did some personal learning on how to get the most out of LinkedIn:

• How LinkedIn Works from How Stuff Work - 10 pages 
•  Forbes March 2013 Mistakes You Should Never Make On LinkedIn (2 pages)
• How to Connect on LinkedIn — and how not to

Well it's day 2 and I've kept to by a few day before New Year's resolution!