Stephen Madaras Joins Linkedin Security Discussion Group As Moderator

I'm truly honored to have Stephen Madaras join the Linkedin Security discussion group on Yahoo Groups.

Stephen brings a wealth of experience in the IT Security field.

But what makes me want to moderate with Stephen is the high level of professionalism he expresses on his Linkedin profile:

"It is not really about me. It is about my customers. I want to understand your business concerns (technical and procedural), help to fix immediate issues and then move forward to make your technology investments actually start making money FOR you, always with security in mind."

This is exactly the type of mindset I believe most customers want when they are seeking to engage a consultant.  And it is the attitude I'd like to encourage in Linkedin Security, MLPF, and all its related groups.

Thus, it gives me great pleasure to have Stephen join Paul Dube, Arnnei Speiser, and me as a full Moderator of Linkedin Security. 

Stephen also moderates Linkedin IT with Kshitij Dayal, Tor-Bjorn Fjellner, and me. 

To find out more about Stephen Madaras and the security he can bring to you and your company, visit his Linkedin profile at:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2096598

As we get ready for a more robust Linkeidn networking 4th quarter in 2006, I invite you to join me in welcoming Stephen as Moderator of the Linkedin Security and Linkedin IT discussion groups.

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"Even A BABY Can Out-Sleep YOU!" - Problems With Unchecked Competitiveness...

We all know that competition makes us better.  (Or so "they" say.)

But we all also know people pride themselves on their competitive spirit as if it were the greatest thing they can think of to describe themselves.  With a big pat on their own backs you hear them say, "I'M THE MOST COMPETITIVE GUY IN THE WORLD!"

While I suppose competitiveness can be good as an occasional call to action, as an occasional energizer, I prefer something superior to the competitive spirit: The Creative Spirit!

The creative spirit is about building something new: novel things, silly things, serious things, humorous things, moving things, powerful things, sublime things. 

The creative spirit is about letting light shine.  

Thus, it never, ever, ever tires of generating new stuff.  

Indeed, the creative spirit has no fear of running out of materials with which to build new things.  

It is undaunted by things that cause fear in the competitive spirit.

My simple philosophy behind choosing the creative spirit over the competitive spirit is this: Who cares what the competition is doing if you're not doing the most that YOU are capable of doing with what you have?

If you are in a race with someone, why watch their footsteps?  

Instead, pay attention to your own.  

RELENTLESS ATTENTION!

Who knows what discoveries you'll make by digging deeply into "that plot of ground which is giving to you to till"?

So what if someone else discovers that their soil is rich in essential nutrients for growing wine?  We live in a rich world.  Digging deeply enough into your own ground may yield gold, oil, "acres of diamonds", if you'd just focus on digging, digging, digging and not spending your days and nights watching your neighbors digging their way to wealth, health, happiness, fame, and joy.

And when you've dutifully done your very best in creating all you can create by digging your own ground, you'll be able to sleep like a baby!  

And let's see the competitive guy try to out-sleep a baby! (Without drugging themselves, that is!:-))

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"#" Key + Need Keyboard Option When Mass Removing Connections

Earlier this evening, Konstantin Guericke announced a new ability for Linkedin members who may want to "re-think" their current connections.

This  is another step in enriching Linkedin as the platform of choice for business professionals who want to use it seriously.

For members may want to use the new "Break Connection" function to remove multiple contacts who display a variety of characters in the name field that don't belong there, Linkedin offers the "#" key as a means of quickly locating all such members you're connected to.

In considering that I've never done ANY business with ANY member who use such characters, I think this is a stroke of genius on Linkedin's part.

However, users must be careful when attempting to remove more than a few members at a time and I'll tell you why.

In attempting to remove about 15 such names, when the confirmation table recapped the selected names for you to confirm the break, the table went off the bottom of my screen.  (I'm using latest version of Firefox.)

Lowering the bottom part of the Firefox pane would not reveal the "Cancel/Confirm" buttons.

I attempted to grab the confirmation table to drag it higher in the window but, that, too, was to no avail.

Finally, I attempted traditional windows keyboard shortcuts but they, too, were to no avail.

Keyboard shortcuts, anyone?
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When Forwarding Gets Awkward: Why We Need Choice...

Yesterday, I was stunned when a forward request initiated by someone I've known since 1987 was declined by another person who had decided to join Linkedin because of an article I wrote called "A N.E.T.W.O.R.K. Of Words To Help You NETWORK". 

Looking at myself being between someone whom I'd known for 2 decades and someone who complimented me by joining Linkedin based on one of my articles, I thought this forward request was a "sure fired winner", a "done deal".

The person who initiated the request was someone I'd worked on the same team with in my very first recruiting job at AETNA back in the 80's.  She's now Director of Staffing for another large insurance company here in Hartford.

Because I knew the requester so well, I felt compelled to ask why the request was declined on Linkedin but WAS FORWARDED OFF LINE.

The answer both surprised and enlightened me:  I won't go into all the details but the person who declined to forward the request was a corporate recruiter working at the same company as the person who would be the final recipient of the request.   Being that the primary responsibility of a corporate recruiter is to build up corporate assets, I could understand the dilemma in sending an external job opportunity to an internal corporate contact.

That being said: this points out why we need to be able to have more choice in the request path.

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New Linkedin Inbox: Giant Step In The Right Direction

Earlier today on MLPF, Konstantin Guericke brought to our attention the new Linkedin Inbox located at http://www.linkedin.com/inBox

According to Konstantin, "We upgraded the inbox in response to highly active users who have a lot of messages to manage—it also now allows us to add more communication features. Our goal will be to create the right balance of more communication while keeping annoyance to a minimum. If you have connections from people you really don't want to hear from or who are abusing these features, you may want to consider disconnecting from them."

Whether or not intended for power networkers, in my opinion, this is a giant step in the right direction for Linkedin - and I'll tell you why:

Having a more robust inbox is like having a more robust highway system.   A robust highway system should accommodate the needs of those who want to drive at exactly the speed limit as well as those who may want to traverse the highway a bit faster!  ;-)

Already today, the new Linkedin Inbox has helped me to clean up a few items which may have set around for a bit longer were it not easier to find and respond to them. 

One of the more helpful aspects of the Linkedin Inbox is the consideration that went into organizing it in the highly intuitive manner as outlined below: 

• Inbox
• InMail & Introductions
  • Received
  • Sent
  • To Forward
• Invitations
  • Received
  • Sent
• Jobs
  • Received (5)
  • Sent

Profile Updates

A significant bonus to the new Linkedin Inbox is having a "Profile Updates" section.   That should nicely help to control a problem which was appearing to get out of hand with an ever-growing segment of Linkedin's 6.5 Million members updating their profiles on a regular basis.

Kudos to Linkedin on taking another giant step in the right direction!
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Nina Camp Joins MLPF and Linkedin Ecademy as Moderator

When I first met her on Ecademy back in 2004, Nina Camp got my attention by declaring how dismayed she was with people who would write her a quick introductory hello to make connection and never contact her again.

I wanted to make sure that I never made that mistake with her so, I always paid attention to Nina  ever since our first Ecademy introduction in 2004! :-)

With her extraordinary passion for networking and for actually getting results from networking, I'm happy to announce that Nina is joining MLPF and Linkedin Ecademy as our newest moderator.

For the few of you who may not be familiar with Nina Camp, here's my endorsement I wrote for her in March 2005:

"Nina Camp knows how to network: she helps herself to be found and she helps you to connect with her. But more importantly, Nina helps you to want to STAY connected with her by her demonstrable professionalism, courtesy, and clear-headedness determination to stay on purpose. Nina knows how to help your company. Further, all Nina's Ecademy friends know she knows how to cook – good!" (March 5, 2005)
Vincent Wright ,
was with another company when working with Nina at Computer Consultants & Merchants (CC&M), Inc.

I invite you to take a look at Nina's Linkedin profile at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/NinaCamp

For those of you not yet familiar with Linkedin Ecademy but have an interest in using both platforms together, please feel free to stop by and introduce yourself at: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedinEcademy/

Linkedin Ecademy DESCRIPTION:

"Linkedin Ecademy is for the growing group of users who realize the business networking importance of both Ecademy and Linkedin.

It is for the user who is either comfortable with both or looking to get comfortable with both - without necessarily disparaging either network."

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"You Don't Care Do You...?"

As I was preparing to reward myself for a fairly good week by preparing one of my favorite dishes, GUESS WHAT HAPPENED???

Yep.

You guessed it.

The proverbial dinner-time telemarketer decided to give me a call!

He called to find out which radio station I listened to most during the past week.

As I listened to him go directly in to his script without asking if this was a convenient time to talk, I thought to myself, "Self, this young man really doesn't care about the beautifully laid out meal you are preparing, does he?   He doesn't know what the week has been like with its ups, its downs, its failures, its successes, does he?   He doesn't know that you deserve to have a break after thinking and conceiving and resolving and writing for more than 80 hours over the past 7 days, does he?"

But then again, how could he know, how could he care since his sole purpose was to get from me what he wanted?   And he was focused on doing just that - getting what he wanted...

I wonder if he'd like to be treated the same way and have his long-awaited treat interrupted by a dinner-time survey?

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The MLPF Encyclopedia of Mutual Respect and Peaceful Networking in Discussion Groups

"T</span>reat others as you want them to treat you."*

Whether you call it " the golden rule", "the ethic of reciprocity", or some other such name, for me, the entire encyclopedia of mutual respect and peaceful networking in discussion groups and in life boils down to this:

"T</span>reat others as you want them to treat you."*

• If you want to be peaceful, treat others that way.
• If you want to be respected, treat others that way.
• If you want to be helped, treat others that way.
• If you want to be treated with scorn, contempt, and disdain, treat others that way.
• If you want to be treated brotherly fairness, treat others that way.
• If you want to be embraced as an authentic builder of value, treat others that way.
• If you want to be uplifted by others, treat others that way.

As a networker and discussion group participant, are you treating others as you want them to treat you?

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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule_%28ethics%29

Socially Accountable Signature File

In his book "Growing Your Business with Google", I was happy to see that our own Dave Taylor included a section on "The Importance of Signatures"  (pp 204-205).

In that section, Dave mentions that "A good signature block contains your name, contact e-mail address, website address, phone number, and a one- or two-line advertisement for your business."

Dave continues, "Signatures are something that everyone on a mailing list reads, particularly after reading a cogent and thoughtful message."

Of course, we know that a good signature file should be more than a first name yet, less than an encyclopedic listing of everything we do.

I'm toying around with improving my own signature file but, I wanted to be socially responsible/accountable in including enough information to help you find me but not so much that it would appear that I'm most interested in advertising that in what I desire to share with you.

What have you decided to put in your signature file?   If different than Dave Taylor's recommendations,  please share with us why you chose to build your signature file your way.

By the way: Is mine too long? :-)
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Wonderful Invitation...

Today, I received such a WONDERFUL invitation to connect that I think I broke my own personal record in accepting it!  :-)

While I'm not at liberty to disclose the name of the person nor the contents of his highly personal invitation, I think it's important to talk about exceptional moments we experience, even if we have to talk about them in general terms.

Of course, this type of invitation sets the tone of my getting aligned to help this gentleman as much as I can, as soon as I can.  

And though he's relatively new to me, in preparation to align myself to help him, I've read his profile, visited his web site, and read as much other stuff about him as I could quickly find on the Web and other places on the Internet.  

His WONDERFUL invitation was a good way to start things off so, I can't wait to see what I can do to honor such an invitation!

Have you received any invitations that have made you hopeful of a successful business relationship?
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You Have To Help Us Find Your Need..

One of the oddest things about the beautiful human mind is that it can trick us out of getting what we need.   And we can come up with an endless number of reasons why we haven't addressed a need but, the troublesome thing about "needs" is that they don't go away - on their own, that is.

Recently, I've been having some terrific conversations with some of the most intelligent men and women I've ever met. 

Yet, there seems to be this common thread among many of them: many are stuck right at the precipice of getting the thing they need.   But they don't get it even though from my perspective the distance between what they need and where they are is amazingly short.

Many seem to have some sort of mental "braking-mechanism" that stops them from doing the very thing they need in order to succeed: ASKING.

If you want help, asking is the thing that triggers helping hands to take action.

But, and correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that the biggest challenge of asking is that we either don't know or can't or won't express what our needs are.

We know that the needs are there.

We know that you have needs.

We just don't know what they are and we don't know when you need to have them addressed.

As one of the community leaders here on MLPF, I'd like for each member to feel as comfortable as possible in sharing your needs. 

• Do you know what you need?  - If so, tell us about it.
• Do you know how to determine what you need?   - If not, ask us about it.

While we may not be able to help the whole world, we should be able to help you.

But, you have to help us find your need.
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Relate To Me! Relationship! Relationship!
Bruce Lee's Ultimate 2 Minute Networking Tip!

How About This For MLPF?: The *Community* As A Moderator...

As I understand the term "moderator", in its best sense it means to help guide an entity/discussion.

Most of us familiar with some of the dangers of online life still recognize that we need moderators to help guide MLPF and to keep it healthy as a community.

And while we're thankful for MLPF's current official moderators (and we intend to keep them with their extended privileges/responsibilities), I'm asking for your feedback on creating a mindset where ALL community members serve as MLPF "member moderators".   

I'm hoping we can take another step towards democratizing MLPF where members freely speak up on issues pertaining to the group's purpose, health, conversaton, and direction. 

I believe that you can help make MLPF better than I can make it alone.

I hope this will help us provide better community guidance so that we can all get better results out of our current networking opportunity - an opportunity which I still don't believe enough of us have taken full advantage of for our businesses/careers.

To the point: I'd like "member moderators" to:

1. Speak up when a thread is losing its shape, its purpose, its value to the community
   
2. Speak up when a new topic is not appropriate for MLPF  - the fine line regarding what's appropriate and what is not shifts from time to time - so your feedback is invaluable
   
3. Speak up on performance issues related to how MLPF serves you and the community - let us know of technical problems
   
4. Speak up on abuse issues.  Help us to not just "know" etiquette as a theory but to champion it as THE way, the very core of professional networking - NO  ONE can be a true networking professional without a mastery of etiquette, without mutual respect for fellow members in their networks.  So, this is a critical responsibility/benefit for "member moderators. 
5. Calm things down - especially when the founder of MLPF gets a little hot under the collar and forgets to do his deep breathing exercises! :-) - help us to keep cool so we can go on about making the most out of Linkedin as a business opportunity while concurrently making the most out of MLPF as a networking/discussing community.  If we can remain calm - long enough - we can get TO KNOW EACH OTHER so that we can trust doing business with each other.  (If I don't know you, I can't introduce you.)
   

Please let me know your thoughts on this and please help us to continually improve MLPF as a networking power tool of value to you.
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Six Degrees of Bartering??? Blogger Barters Paperclip for a House

An extreme case of networking, blogging, and bartering:

Bartering blogger's quest ends as envisioned: with keys to a house

July 11, 2006 - 5:35AM

Taking a paper clip and turning it into a house sounds like a cheesy magic trick or a phony instance of resourcefulness on the 1980s TV show "MacGyver."

Kyle MacDonald, however, has pulled it off.

One year ago, the 26-year-old blogger from Montreal set out to barter one red paper clip for something and that thing for something else, over and over again until he had a house.

On Wednesday the quest is ending as envisioned: MacDonald is due to become the proud owner of a three-bedroom, 1,100-square-foot home provided by the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. MacDonald and his girlfriend, Dominique Dupuis, expect to move there in early September.

"This is such a cool community project. It feels right," MacDonald said. "And now that I think about it, I can't believe that another small town didn't think of it. It will literally put them on the map."

What's in it for the town? The answer requires a quick MacDonald recap, featuring a menagerie of friendly folks, radio talk show hosts and aging celebrities, all bound together by the Internet.

It began when MacDonald, an aspiring writer, doer of odd jobs and apartment dweller, advertised in the barter section of the Craigslist Web site that he wanted something bigger or better for one red paper clip. He traded it for a fish-shaped pen, and posted on Craigslist again and again.

Roaming Canada and the United States, he exchanged the pen for a ceramic knob, and in turn: a camping stove, a generator, a beer keg and Budweiser sign, a snowmobile, a trip to the Canadian Rockies, a supply truck and a recording contract. Next, in April, he got himself really close, obtaining a year's rent in Phoenix.

His adventure became an Internet blockbuster. He did Canadian and Japanese TV and "Good Morning America." He made dozens of local radio appearances _ one of which, in Los Angeles, was heard by a man who ended up as a pivotal figure.

That man is Corbin Bernsen. You may remember him from his roles in "L.A. Law" and "Major League."

For the rest of the story:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Bartering-bloggers-quest-ends-as-envisioned-with-keys-to-a-house/2006/07/11/1152383702596.html


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Pride And Prejudice: ADMINISTRATIVA

Pride and Prejudice

It's interesting that Jane Austen's novel "Pride And Prejudice" was originally called "First Impressions".

Though it is one of the more unpleasant things to address in networking and in moderating a group, it is nonetheless important to remind members that we never know who we're making a "first impression" on when we're posting to MLPF.   

 

And though members have broad freedoms on MLPF, member freedom does not grant any person unlimited license to violate social protocol. 

Recently, several members have contacted me off list to voice their outrage at a thread which I will not dignify by identifying in this post.  But with respect to such threads, each member remains free to make their own decisions about individuals who demonstrate a clear tendency towards disrespecting fellow members of this group.  Of course, members could retaliate and say something equally offensive to a poster who posts inflammatory remarks.  But why follow that anti-networking pattern when we can do something constructive like building real networks to help our businesses/careers?

Thus, in keeping with my original purpose to use MLPF to help Linkedin members improve their usage of Linkedin and the value they derive from using it, I intend to protect members from intentionally inflammatory, prejudicial, and/or profane posts here on MLPF.

Anyone who calls themselves a professional and who deigns to call themselves a leader of a network should have sufficient linguistic skills to enable them to clearly make their point without having to resort to intentionally inflammatory references.  We are here for business purposes not for juvenile exercises in verbal pugilism.  (For those with an appetite for such indulgences, I created MLPF-RAP but it appears that members who want to post inflammatory things on MLPF aren't very open to receiving "open" replies.)

Regardless of origin or current status, each of us takes pride in our heritage, we take pride in our genders, we take pride in our unique ethnicities, and we take pride in our chosen professions.  Naturally, pride makes each of us defend those things belonging to us which prejudicial people want to cheapen.  In some instances, the person choosing to cheapen things is doing so for nothing more significant than "competition".  And that says a lot about their own inability to generate anything on their own.

But it is my strongest belief that there is NO need for prejudicial behavior toward any member or toward any culture represented on this forum.

In closing, regardless of what other professionals may choose to do, I intend to keep pushing MLPF towards 100% mutual respect and towards continuing to use Linkedin not to debase but to prosper, not for negative things but for encouraging, positive, uplifting things.
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Do You Know Someone You Would Take Pride In Endorsing? Visit My Linkedin Endorsements!

Have you ever felt really, really good about someone you've worked with and you endorsed them on Linkedin but felt that you wanted more people to know about how good the person is?

Well, My Linkedin Endorsements is a place to post your endorsements more publicly and to even elaborate on the 400 character limit Linkedin currently offers us.

By their very nature, endorsements are positive affirmations about people we know.

Thus, My Linkedin Endorsements is a forum focused on the positive side of business relationships on Linkedin.

MLE gives us the opportunity to focus on the positive, the good things we see in our professional networking friends.

Acknowledging the positive side of networking helps us to better know and better use the awesome power of real networking. Networking is of necessity constructive. It's about BUILDING. Focusing on those we endorse helps clarify the meaning of real networking.

So, if you know someone you take pride in endorsing, come share your endorsements on My Linkedin Endorsements!

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyLinkedinEndorsements/

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No! Let's Empathize, Instead! was Re: The Corporate Secret

Kailas,
Let's think about this for a moment: If you had a product you were currently selling at $40 USD, would you want 4,100+ people to have it for free?

To me, uploading a product or service that is currently being sold without getting the owners' permission is counter to the MLPF spirit of helping small businesses, entrepreneurs, and job seekers.

I want us to grow but, not at all costs and certainly not at the expense of fellow entrepreneurs.

While we do whole-heartedly believe in giver's gain, we don't believe in "taker's gain".  (Especially on a large scale.)

So, Olumide, please don't upload The Secret to MLPF, ok?

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On 7/4/06, kailassimha <kailass@kaizentek.com> wrote:

HI Olumide,

Can you please upload it to this site? I believe google has removed
the link already,

Thanks,
-- Kailas

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<luminusdadon@...> wrote:
>
> As Vincent said, truly inspirational. I just had to download it to
be able
> to watch it over and over again. I downloaded the .flv file and it
came to
> about 35MB, If anyone is interested I can explain how or upload it
to a free
> file host like RapidShare or MegaUpload so you can download it.
>
> --
> Nuff love,
>
> Luminus
> Phone | +234 1 432 2013, +234 802 359 9606, +44 703 186 0465
> Skype | luminusdadon
> My Blog | http://luminusdadon.wordpress.com
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> My Professional Profile | https://www.linkedin.com/in/luminus
>

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The Top Ten Lies Of Guy Kawaski

Have you ever told these, er... "lies"...?:-)

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/05/the_top_ten_lie_1.html

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