This morning (or was it last night...?) I signed up for LinkedIn. You can read all about the service by checking the links in a post or two below.
So far the experiment has been successful. I signed up and fired off an message to someone I already knew in the network and got an immediate response! That's pretty good.
Then I ran the outlook script. Now I was wondering about this, because I use a Palm and synchronize it to Goldmine, and then have Goldmine Synchronize to Outlook, so would it work.... YES It got a whole slew of email addresses and let me select a handful to attempt to make some contact with. At first I was not that excited about the pre-scripted form email, but in fact I found it better to have something to rewrite than to come up with some lame message on the fly. Expediency of making connections is the goal here.
Send a handful of emails to people I thought would be receptive, and within about 2 minutes, was accepted by one of them. And he's not a high-tech guy! Also, he was not visible to me in LinkedIn before. So I guess there are settings where you can make yourself visible only to those who already know you. That suggests that the network in the system is much larger than the one that is initially visible to you.
Well, the experiment begins nicely. Let's see where it goes.
11:10:11 AM 
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