Thanks, I don't give linkedin much attention except when I need to find out who somebody is that I'm corresponding with, or trying to figure out.
Same thing with twitter. Hell, my wordpress site sends thousands of tweets a month. Yet I very seldom even look at it Perhaps I need to devote more time to them, and I will clean it up as I didn't realize you could delete those endorsements. -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] LinkedIn Endorsements rant Virgil: I frequently go in and clean up my endorsements so they truly reflect my talents and ambitions. Jeff --------------- Jeff Johnson [email protected] (623) 582-0323 www.san-dc.com www.arelationshipmanager.com On 08/02/2013 02:14 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > Glad to see somebody else noticed this. > > I have been endorsed by people that I have never worked with, nor met. > > With the exception of being rated for "Business Process" by Craig Askins, > who I did work with for four years, the majority of my endorsements are > worth about as much as a piece of used toilet paper. > > Not that I don't need the work, mind you, but I'm not endorsing anybody > unless I have worked with them > > Virgil > N5IVV > Keep America At Work > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 4:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] LinkedIn Endorsements rant > > My favorite recently was when one associate endorsed another for "LinkedIn > Endorsements!" > > Yeah, it's a racket; it's LinkedIn's equivalent of mindless "Likes" > > I keep getting endorsements for SQL Server. I did a _great_ presentation, if > I say so myself, on the new features coming up in SQL Server 2000 at the > Miami FoxDevCon 2000, and I have worked with it a few times since, > reluctantly, even getting ODBC and the TDS driver working on a BSD box, but > I am not an expert and would prefer NOT to get endorsed for a technology I > don't recommend. What can you do? > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:50 PM, M Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's Friday.... >> >> Has it been discussed around here lately this thing with LinkedIn and >> all these 'Endorsements' that keep being sent out? >> >> It seems to me like it's just something LinkedIn is doing to drive >> traffic to their site. I suspect that a lot of the 'endorsements' I >> get are just some random crap that the site is generating.... >> >> Seems like I get two kinds of endorsements - an endorsement for >> something that is OBVIOUSLY a skill I have (Matt knows Windows! Matt >> knows Word! etc....) or endorsements coming from somebody who has no >> bloody clue what my skills are so how the hell could they endorse me >> for it? >> >> Matt can type! Matt can turn on a computer! Matt can wipe his arse! >> >> >> -- >> Matt Jarvis >> Eugene, Oregon USA >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
