{"id":6178,"date":"2007-06-26T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2007\/06\/linked\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:59:14","slug":"linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/26\/linked\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide if <a title=\"LinkedIn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> is useful or not. I was introduced to it about a year ago by my lawyer who has lots of connections to colleagues and clients on his profile. But I&#8217;ve yet to discover anyone that I know from my own industry that uses it.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, I&#8217;m not sure that the point of LinkedIn is to find people that you already know. Finding people you don&#8217;t know and being found by others have to be the two biggest advantages that it might have. But it would help to achieve a more credible appearance on LinkedIn if, by knowing a few people already, you could establish a network of connections and not look like a sad loner with just one linked profile.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use LinkedIn? Do you think it is useful? You&#8217;ll find me if you search for my real name and know what I do for a living\u00a0(I&#8217;m not linked as Graybo and nor is this blog linked).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide if LinkedIn is useful or not. I was introduced to it about a year ago by my lawyer who has lots of connections to colleagues and clients on his profile. But I&#8217;ve yet to discover anyone that I know from my own industry that uses it. The trouble is, I&#8217;m not sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}