While convincing people that LinkedIn is a good professional tool is not hard, many folks are not using Facebook for anything other than communicating with friends or playing games, and are not using Twitter at all; articulating the business value of Facebook and Twitter to those people can be challenging. LinkedIn. Get answers. MORE >>

Is your LinkedIn account mostly sitting idle? Here are 33 ways to use LinkedIn more effectively. Use widgets to integrate other tools, such as importing your blog entries or Twitter stream into your profile. Request LinkedIn recommendation from happy customers willing to provide testimonials. MORE >>

LinkedIn (LNKD) stock hit a 52-week low on Monday, hitting as low as $56.45 Today’s Forbes blog post, LinkedIn Would Be Fairly Valued at $43 , just added fuel to the fire, triggering highly volatile trading on Monday. LinkedIn News triberrand closing at $60.00. MORE >>

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? How many of you actively use LinkedIn? How many of you get really high value from LinkedIn? Generally 50-70%. MORE >>

Just what does it take to be “in” someone’s network on LinkedIn? For the longest time now it has meant three degrees of connectivity, and it appears that LinkedIn is flirting with just two. realized he had commented on my blog a while back, but we haven’t corresponded in a bit. What does LinkedIn Say? MORE >>