The UltraTech Zone

I recently read an article by Meg Guiseppi entitled, “14 Reasons I Won’t Follow You on Twitter”, and I found that I shared many of her views on what constitutes a good network connection on Twitter. In my case, however, I am a member of multiple social networks, and I don’t use them all in the same manner, so the guidelines that I follow are ...

We live in a society that is different in so many ways from the society that our parents grew up in.  For one thing, we are more globally connected.  Another point is that sales and marketing at a personal level is more critical for long-term career success, whether you are an employee or in business for yourself. The global nature of ...

If you find yourself trying to manage and remember all the social/professional networking sites that you are on, then XeeSM may be for you! I have found it very useful to point people to all of my networks, so that they can connect to me from whichever network they find most comfortable.  It certainly beats trying to remember all the URLs ...

It’s been almost 16 months since my last LinkedIn Feature Request post, and thankfully, the folks at LinkedIn have not been sitting idly by. No, they still haven’t brought back the Personal Plus membership (or a reasonable $5-10/month alternative) to bridge the gap between the free service and the $20+/month offerings.   And I am ...

This past Tuesday, I had the great fortune of participating in the NYC IT Roadmap Expo 2009 as a session speaker presenting a case study. This was a first for me, and I am happy to report that I had a great time.  My presentation was well received (although I didn’t have any pictures or graphics in my slides) and afterwards, a few people ...

I haven't posted in a few weeks, but not because I don't have anything to write -- it's because I haven't mastered the art of dividing my time across all needs and wants. Here are a few thoughts that hint of posts to come: I need to write about Strategy, Leadership, and Success, particularly in a corporate context.   I have a number ...

Right now, I belong to a large number of social networks (more on that later).  For the most part, I'm really only active on LinkedIn, but as more people connect to me on Plaxo and Facebook, my profile has been getting some action on those networks as well. As expected, the proliferation of such networks is giving rise consolidation and ...

I recently came across another Professional Networking site called Marzar because of a question and answer session on LinkedIn Answers. Of course, I joined to see if it is worthy of any hype, and so far, I think it has many of the little things which people continue to clamor for on LinkedIn.  Each member has space for blogs and for an ...

The month of February 2008 was a very busy one at LinkedIn, it seems.  A number of improvements and modifications were made to the site, including network upgrades which now show Group Membership changes, a much maligned News function, and a major graphical overhaul of the User Interface. So far, I'm liking the new interface, which takes a ...

I have a little bit of everything to share today. Professional Networking LinkedIn has performed quite a few upgrades in recent days, and they've upgraded their site quite a bit.   It looks nice, I must say.   I hope this is just the beginning of them implementing some long-awaited changes, such as the ones I compiled last ...

Okay, for the next few weeks, I'll probably be on a little LinkedIn kick, to make up for some lost time over the past few months.  The real purpose of this post, however, is to help people identify and address problems that come from having more than one LinkedIn account.  I continue to see lots of questions from people who have ...

I finally had the chance to attend another live networking event of NJ LinkedIn members, similar to the one I attended back in October. If you're in the NY/NJ metro area, and would like to enjoy a casual networking event once a month, then feel free to come out to Livingston, NJ the first Tuesday of every month. A Yahoo! group has been created ...

As you may well know by now, I am a huge proponent of the LinkedIn Network. On account of my many LinkedIn connections, I routinely receive a fair number of invitations to join other business or social networks. For a variety of reasons, the likelihood of my accepting these invitations is rather small. This is primarily because managing a ...

On Tuesday, I went to a LinkedIn gathering that was put together by some Northern NJ members of LinkedIn.  It was a pretty decent event, and I got to meet some very nice and interesting people.  It was my first such event, and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to do more of them -- at least once per quarter, if not once per month. Looking ...

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