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• 10:48 For those at the AMA Cincy session this morning, the wiki is amacincy.wikispaces.com #

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• 13:05 Just set up a wiki for my panel tomorrow at the AMA Cincy. I find wikis make it easy for me to present & for others to find the info later. #
• 13:58 Here's my gripe on Press Releases. I run a REGIONALLY focused wine blog. Your event in OR or CA is not useful to my readers. #
• 13:58 My gripe continued - I'd love if those sending the press releases actually READ my wine blog to see if it's useful to them. Sigh. #

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LinkedIn Adds Applications

cross-posted from bub.blicio.us

It's amazing how much happens in the tech world when you take a vacation. The latest news is that LinkedIn is taking the Facebook tact and adding applications. The difference is that LinkedIn Apps are all productivity focused and, in theory, will help promote your profile even more.

Right now, the following apps are available to spruce up your LinkedIn homepage and/or your LinkedIn profile:

Amazon Reading List

Slideshare

Linking your Wordpress or Typepad posts to your profile

Huddle Workspaces

TripIt

Box.net

Google Presentation

Company Buzz

According to Chris Brogan, you should drop everything and run over to LinkedIn and add Apps to your profile. I took his advice and added the WordPress and SlideShare apps. I'd love to be able to add my other blogs, but the BlogLink app seems to be a bit buggy. I assume that will work itself out.  I think that the blogging apps (when they work) and the Slideshare apps are just brilliant.

That said, I'm a little worried about this development as well. I love that LinkedIn is actually doing something. However, you can't control where the applications appear on your public profile - at least not that I could find. I'm afraid LinkedIn profiles might become as messy as the old Facebook profiles or MySpace. I hate clutter.

What do you think? Will you add LinkedIn apps to your profile? Do you think they'll help promote your talents? Are apps a bad idea, contributing to the clutter? Let us know in the comments.

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• 11:48 Alright. Back at home and now checking too emails I have way too many. #
• 11:54 Alright - I think my various out of office emails have been turned off. Now to deal with email - and voice mail. The downside of a vacat ... #
• 16:09 Cincinnati airport (CVG) again has highest airfare in the nation. #

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• 23:23 The first Wine Bloggers Conference has ended - except on Twitter. We kept Twitter going with #WBC tag for 3 days! #
• 23:24 I bet that the use of Twitter by the wine bloggers is worth some sort of white paper. It was impressive, and educating. #
• 12:53 Wine bloggers were ahead of the stream. Twitter goes Mainstream. is.gd/4Tdb #

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• 18:22 People underestimate wine bloggers. There are over 2000 members of the online Open Wine Consortium - within a matter of months! #

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• 16:07 Failing miserably at packing for my trip. I can't seem to find any of the various cords and cables that I need. #

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• 10:04 Trying to accomplish about 100 things before I head to California on Wednesday. San Francisco and Sonoma. Yay! #

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Blog Humor

I always try to post when I find some blog-related humor in the comics. I particularly like today's Doonesbury, by Gary Trudeau. Bloggers are a hundred million strong! It's great that large companies are starting to take us seriously, but the traditional media is still a little baffled. Not entirely, but a little.

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You can view Doonesbury online at Slate.com.

LinkedIn Cleans Up Your Profile

originally posted to bub.blicio.us

Yesterday the LinkedIn blog announced some aesthetic changes for the professional networking site. These are all mostly subtle changes, but they do make a big difference. In particular, these things make a huge difference in the ease-of-use category. It's now easy to find things we didn't even know existed before. First off, they've enclosed the important profile information in a blue box on your profile. This calls attention to that information as well as making it easier to find.

Next, they've made it easier to take action on other people's profiles. If someone is not a connection, you'll see a box like this:

If they are in your network, you'll see this:

It really does make things easier. My favorite additions are the ability to print to either your printer or PDF, or download the contact information (if in your network). These options were always there, but rather well hidden. When you're using LinkedIn as an introductory resume, it's a nice option for your potential employer to be able to print or save your information. I also like the easy to find suggestions/links for sending messages, recommendations, forwarding profiles (I've always had trouble finding that one), and getting introduced.