It's a similar conundrum to questions I have about texting and Facebook and other electronic forms of communication. They keep us connected, but are the connections so superficial that we're missing something, replacing face to face conversations with short, meaningless messages that are easily typed into our phones?
In the case of LinkedIn, this is more than an academic question, because what I really want to do is get a job, and the question is how can I go about that most effectively. But if you give me a chance to play with my computer, like I am doing right now, I will gravitate toward that.
In any case, I have sketched out some changes to my LinkedIn profile and will try to post those today.
On the networking with real people front, I took that LinkedIn class Thursday, in a classroom with actual people, had lunch with friends Friday, called a recruiter I know at Robert Half and got some contact names, will call Joel and go walking this afternoon if he can, and have my job search group to attend tomorrow. I am finding, oddly enough, that I look forward to days when I have some activity planned outside of family stuff. This seems odd to me anyway, because I used to really look forward to days with nothing to do, but I need little bit of structure to keep me on task and provide some feeling of progress. And I have plenty of chances to do nothing these days.
It's a beautiful day in Seattle, a rarity that shouldn't be wasted. Time to call Joel.
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