Comments on: Using LinkedIn http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:25:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: KAMI http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10392 KAMI Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:47:06 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10392 TRUTH ALWAYS BITES - It seems that you are biting yourself, and quite hard too. What a rant!! Rule 1 about social networking sites. Dont put anything out there which does not need to be there. You might regret later. TRUTH ALWAYS BITES – It seems that you are biting yourself, and quite hard too. What a rant!!

Rule 1 about social networking sites. Dont put anything out there which does not need to be there. You might regret later.

]]> By: Momekh http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10391 Momekh Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:04:34 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10391 @V: ;-) @Azmac: We aim to please! :-) Well, not really, but it is nice to see that you find this interesting. I hope and pray that we - you, me, and everybody coming to this blog - can put together something that is useful and healthy. Thank you, and looking forward to your contributions! @V: ;-)

@Azmac: We aim to please! :-) Well, not really, but it is nice to see that you find this interesting. I hope and pray that we – you, me, and everybody coming to this blog – can put together something that is useful and healthy.
Thank you, and looking forward to your contributions!

]]> By: azmac http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10390 azmac Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:56:06 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10390 Guys thanks for your positive responses. Apologies if I seemed a bit short. My intention was not to undermine anyones post. I think i got misled by the unrelated anti-punjabi post :) I actually really enjoy following this metroblog and plan to start contributing to it regularly. Good luck with whatever you are up to. cheers Guys
thanks for your positive responses. Apologies if I seemed a bit short. My intention was not to undermine anyones post. I think i got misled by the unrelated anti-punjabi post :)
I actually really enjoy following this metroblog and plan to start contributing to it regularly. Good luck with whatever you are up to.
cheers

]]> By: azmac http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10389 azmac Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:55:02 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10389 Guys thanks for your positive responses. Apologies if I seemed a bit short. My intention was not to undermine anyones post. I think i got misled by the unrelated anti-punjabi post :) I actually really enjoy following this metroblog and plan to start contributing to it regularly. Good luck with whatever you are up to. cheers Guys
thanks for your positive responses. Apologies if I seemed a bit short. My intention was not to undermine anyones post. I think i got misled by the unrelated anti-punjabi post :)
I actually really enjoy following this metroblog and plan to start contributing to it regularly. Good luck with whatever you are up to.
cheers

]]> By: V http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10388 V Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:24:31 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10388 @Azmac: There was absolutely no negative undertone to my comment... but if it came out as negative then I assure you that it was never meant that way. I, on the other hand, kinda liked the way Momekh covered two fronts in a single concise topic. :) @Azmac: There was absolutely no negative undertone to my comment… but if it came out as negative then I assure you that it was never meant that way.

I, on the other hand, kinda liked the way Momekh covered two fronts in a single concise topic. :)

]]> By: Momekh http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10387 Momekh Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:45:12 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10387 @Asif: thank you for the link. TazaKino is really a great find as citizen journalism's starting point. @V: I appreciate your like-minded approach ;). Whenever I get a chance to 'vote' in a reasonable manner, why wouldn't I? :-) @Azmac: Please, a lengthy comment usually means that the commenter has something to say, which is all good! (it can also mean that you can type fast, but that's good too!). I really appreciate you comment friend, and would be using your first-hand experience to better relate and eventually understand the web 2.1 :-) @Asif: thank you for the link. TazaKino is really a great find as citizen journalism’s starting point.

@V: I appreciate your like-minded approach ;). Whenever I get a chance to ‘vote’ in a reasonable manner, why wouldn’t I? :-)

@Azmac: Please, a lengthy comment usually means that the commenter has something to say, which is all good! (it can also mean that you can type fast, but that’s good too!). I really appreciate you comment friend, and would be using your first-hand experience to better relate and eventually understand the web 2.1 :-)

]]> By: azmac http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10386 azmac Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:19:48 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10386 Momekh I ditto your comments around the benefits of linkedin - I live and work in the UK and appreciate how ubiquitous internet has become to all our live - everything ranging from grocery, books, clothes, travel to finding love, friends, and jobs is now done online. I started using Linkedin a year back and must admit found it very useful to look up long lost contacts from pervious employments. It is what one could term as Facebook for professional world. However, I must point out that the major challenge to most social networking portals is the time invested in it by contributors. Following a few years of exponential growth in subscriptions...UK has now started to show a slow down in growth of such sites. One of the key reasons is that people have started to cut down time spent on internet socialising and have reverted back to old ways of calling and meeting people - which I must agree is always a better option :) More specifically to Linked in, I have found it most useful during recruitment phase as opposed to when I am in active employment - key reason being lack of motivation to network professionally as I already have a job. In summary, great portal for expanding network especially during job hunting. However, it becomes a bit tedious to keep up with once you're in full time employment. In context of Pakistan, I am not sure if enough people are registered on Linkedin to help people build a local network. But one has to start somewhere... Apologies in advance for a lengthy comment. A ps. Can't understand why this post received so much negative feedback - Momekh was only trying to share some insight not market the product - for Gods sake, it's a free website! Momekh
I ditto your comments around the benefits of linkedin – I live and work in the UK and appreciate how ubiquitous internet has become to all our live – everything ranging from grocery, books, clothes, travel to finding love, friends, and jobs is now done online.
I started using Linkedin a year back and must admit found it very useful to look up long lost contacts from pervious employments. It is what one could term as Facebook for professional world.

However, I must point out that the major challenge to most social networking portals is the time invested in it by contributors. Following a few years of exponential growth in subscriptions…UK has now started to show a slow down in growth of such sites.

One of the key reasons is that people have started to cut down time spent on internet socialising and have reverted back to old ways of calling and meeting people – which I must agree is always a better option :)

More specifically to Linked in, I have found it most useful during recruitment phase as opposed to when I am in active employment – key reason being lack of motivation to network professionally as I already have a job.

In summary, great portal for expanding network especially during job hunting. However, it becomes a bit tedious to keep up with once you’re in full time employment. In context of Pakistan, I am not sure if enough people are registered on Linkedin to help people build a local network. But one has to start somewhere…

Apologies in advance for a lengthy comment.

A

ps. Can’t understand why this post received so much negative feedback – Momekh was only trying to share some insight not market the product – for Gods sake, it’s a free website!

]]> By: V http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10385 V Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:13:49 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10385 Aah! A classic example of subliminal marketing! ;) I wouldn't be too surprised if reading this post out loud, recording it and backtracking it would actually play Kemaak's jingle! ;D Aah! A classic example of subliminal marketing! ;)
I wouldn’t be too surprised if reading this post out loud, recording it and backtracking it would actually play Kemaak’s jingle! ;D

]]> By: asif http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10384 asif Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:28:59 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10384 i with people could eat & drink technology Water Rs7/Gallon <a href="http://tazakino.com/article.php/20080225160032842" rel="nofollow">http://tazakino.com/article.php/20080225160032842</a> i with people could eat & drink technology
Water Rs7/Gallon
http://tazakino.com/article.php/20080225160032842

]]> By: Momekh http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/comment-page-1/#comment-10383 Momekh Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:28:34 +0000 http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/02/25/using-linkedin/#comment-10383 Wow! Thanks. That's exactly what I was trying to say by mentioning business opportunities within the domain of Lahore. What I actually meant, which your razor-sharp brilliance has picked up, is that The Punjabis can now use the business opportunities to kill and burn everyone else - long live Punjabistan! Akkhh... Please, take your recruited mindset and prepared paragraphs to a post that actually is saying something related to your comment (whereas it should really be the other way around, your comment being related to the post). Wow! Thanks. That’s exactly what I was trying to say by mentioning business opportunities within the domain of Lahore.

What I actually meant, which your razor-sharp brilliance has picked up, is that The Punjabis can now use the business opportunities to kill and burn everyone else – long live Punjabistan!

Akkhh…

Please, take your recruited mindset and prepared paragraphs to a post that actually is saying something related to your comment (whereas it should really be the other way around, your comment being related to the post).

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