Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Will Evans]

She is no longer there - but when she was there - I believe she was  
not responsible for the Bac'n.



~ will



On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Andrew Jaswa wrote:


But Bac'n is so tasty! Is it anything like spam?


On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Will Evans  
 wrote:
I believe we have a friend over at LinkedIn - Christina W. who can  
apologize

for LinkedIn's Bac'n generator :-)

I have come to despise Bac'n.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Dave Meeker   
wrote:



All -

Please forgive my LinkedIn Request.
I am about to fire off an email to them to tell them that the user
experience of adding your friends from email is pretty poor,  
seeing as

how every single person in my gmail account happened to get an email
from them last evening... including about 5000 people I don't even
know.

I sincerely apologize for this!

(and LinkedIn... I'd like you to apologize also!)

Sorry folks,


Dave

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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Fábio Silva]

LinkedIn


Fábio Silva requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Fábio

Accept invitation from Fábio Silva
http://www.linkedin.com/e/IqlmnSkYcE3ZEwwWImc8yHdvi4M/blk/I1655633201_2/pmpxnSRJrSdvj4R5fnhv9ClRsDgZp6lQs6lzoQ5AomZIpn8_cBYNc38PcPoRdjoNiiZ4i6JjpldlriYPcjsPczkSczALrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/

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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Batyah Rubin]

LinkedIn


Batyah Rubin requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Batyah

Accept invitation from Batyah Rubin
http://www.linkedin.com/e/IqlmnSkYcE3ZEwwWImc8yHdvi4M/blk/I1594926645_2/pmpxnSRJrSdvj4R5fnhv9ClRsDgZp6lQs6lzoQ5AomZIpn8_cBYRd3oSczAQejkNiiZhulZQjlB5gOYNczwUdzgNdPwLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/

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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Margaret Hanley]

LinkedIn


Margaret Hanley requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Margaret

Accept invitation from Margaret Hanley
http://www.linkedin.com/e/IqlmnSkYcE3ZEwwWImc8yHdvi4M/blk/I1468657438_2/pmpxnSRJrSdvj4R5fnhv9ClRsDgZp6lQs6lzoQ5AomZIpn8_cBYUcPgTdjoUdzgNiiZjqzBDrA9gl2YRc3cPc3kTdzsLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/

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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Daniela Bertocchi]

LinkedIn


Daniela Bertocchi requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Daniela

Accept invitation from Daniela Bertocchi
http://www.linkedin.com/e/IqlmnSkYcE3ZEwwWImc8yHdvi4M/blk/I1458094908_2/pmpxnSRJrSdvj4R5fnhv9ClRsDgZp6lQs6lzoQ5AomZIpn8_cBYUc3AQej0UdjgNiiZmk6ETt6YStyYNcP8NdP0VdjsLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/

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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Tingbin Tang]

LinkedIn


Tingbin Tang requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Tingbin

Accept invitation from Tingbin Tang
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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Luca Cappelletti]

LinkedIn


Luca Cappelletti requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Luca

View invitation from Luca Cappelletti
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Mark Ahlenius]

Agreed,

per my original point that I think the original invite was not 
intentionally sent to me, but was a "side effect"


'mark

Loren Baxter wrote:
Seeing as most of these emails are completely accidental, let's call 
it the end result of a number of design problems instead of a user 
error.  In this particular case, you can see that Prachi's Gmail has 
mistakenly stored Ravi as a contact with the e-mail address 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] ".  Couple that with the 
previously discussed over-zealous Linkedin invite tool, and it's easy 
to see why the list gets inundated with these.


Why not filter out Linkedin invites on the IxDA server and make it 
easy on everybody?


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Mark Ahlenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Folks,

I think we need to drop the habit of replying to all on these
emails.  Most of us get way too many emails just from normal traffic.

best,

'mark


Prachi Pundeer wrote:

LinkedIn


Prachi Pundeer requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Prachi

View invitation from Prachi Pundeer

http://www.linkedin.com/e/IqlmnSkYcE3ZEwwWImc8yHdvi4M/blk/754971121_2/cBYNcz4NdPAQdjsLqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Loren Baxter]

Seeing as most of these emails are completely accidental, let's call it the
end result of a number of design problems instead of a user error.  In this
particular case, you can see that Prachi's Gmail has mistakenly stored Ravi
as a contact with the e-mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".  Couple that with
the previously discussed over-zealous Linkedin invite tool, and it's easy to
see why the list gets inundated with these.

Why not filter out Linkedin invites on the IxDA server and make it easy on
everybody?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Mark Ahlenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I think we need to drop the habit of replying to all on these emails.  Most
> of us get way too many emails just from normal traffic.
>
> best,
>
> 'mark
>
>
> Prachi Pundeer wrote:
>
>> LinkedIn
>> 
>>
>> Prachi Pundeer requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
>> --
>>
>> Ravi,
>>
>> I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
>>
>> - Prachi
>>
>> View invitation from Prachi Pundeer
>>
>> http://www.linkedin.com/e/IqlmnSkYcE3ZEwwWImc8yHdvi4M/blk/754971121_2/cBYNcz4NdPAQdjsLqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/
>> --
>>
>> DID YOU KNOW you can be the first to know when a trusted member of your
>> network changes jobs? With Network Updates on your LinkedIn home page,
>> you'll be notified as members of your network change their current position.
>> Be the first to know and reach out!
>> http://www.linkedin.com/
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Mark Ahlenius]

Folks,

I think we need to drop the habit of replying to all on these emails.  
Most of us get way too many emails just from normal traffic.


best,

'mark

Prachi Pundeer wrote:

LinkedIn


Prachi Pundeer requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Prachi

View invitation from Prachi Pundeer
http://www.linkedin.com/e/IqlmnSkYcE3ZEwwWImc8yHdvi4M/blk/754971121_2/cBYNcz4NdPAQdjsLqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/
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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Prachi Pundeer]

LinkedIn


Prachi Pundeer requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
--

Ravi,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Prachi

View invitation from Prachi Pundeer
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Christina Wodtke]

I have passed this excellent critique on to the appropriate product
manager.  I'm not deeply familiar with that aspect of the site, but it
certain sounds problematic and worth examining. My apologies for not seeing
this earlier (and for turning you into a spammer). If anyone has LinkedIn
questions or issues (or wants a job) they should definately email me
directly *without *the IXDA subject line, since that's what I'm filtering
on. :)  You do indeed have a friend at Linkedin.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Dave Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks Will... and again, sorry everyone!
> What a bad situation!
>
> For anyone who cares... here is the experience that I had which has
> led to a zillion people I don't know that well getting LinkedIn
> requests from me. That bothers me because I like LinkedIn a lot, but
> ONLY use it for people I actually have connections with. And now, that
> is shot.
>
> When you add people from your Gmail address book (or any address
> book), the LinkedIn UI shows you the full list of folks on-screen. I
> selected about 10 people out of the two thousand-or so person list. I
> clicked "send invitation", the page reloads, and at the top (which I
> did not see) was the message that my invitations had been sent.
> Honestly, to me, it didn't look as if anything had happened at all, so
> I clicked "send invitations" AGAIN. When I did this I failed to
> recognized that it had checked every single user by default, and there
> was absolutely no way to stop it.
>
> I'd love to see a different mechanism in place to handle looking up
> people from your email accounts and sending them invites. I believe
> the intention on LinkedIn's side is to get as many people to sign up
> as possible. I understand that. I "get it". What I don't get is a
> happy feeling knowing that I just sent spam out to a ton of people I
> do not know, and now many of those people are acting on my request and
> becoming "Connected to me". Good for LinkedIn... Bad for a LinkedIn
> User.
>
> Other than that, I love the service. But I would request that they
> revist the experience design of this portion of the Web site.
>
> Again... sorry everyone.
>
> Dave
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[AJKock]

And here I thought I was finally breaking through. :)
Don't worry, I unsubscribed again after seeing it mentioned here. So
that makes it 499 people to go.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Andrew Jaswa]

But Bac'n is so tasty! Is it anything like spam?


On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe we have a friend over at LinkedIn - Christina W. who can apologize
> for LinkedIn's Bac'n generator :-)
>
> I have come to despise Bac'n.
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Dave Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> All -
>>
>> Please forgive my LinkedIn Request.
>> I am about to fire off an email to them to tell them that the user
>> experience of adding your friends from email is pretty poor, seeing as
>> how every single person in my gmail account happened to get an email
>> from them last evening... including about 5000 people I don't even
>> know.
>>
>> I sincerely apologize for this!
>>
>> (and LinkedIn... I'd like you to apologize also!)
>>
>> Sorry folks,
>>
>>
>> Dave
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[mark schraad]

Oddly, the interaction was not what I expected. I expected to click
the link and see who Dave is.  While I recognized the name, at 5:45
this morning I could not place him (sorry Dave)... but clicking the
link immediately accepted his invitation.

Mark

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Evan K. Stone
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On the other hand, there is no way to distinguish between these
>> passive additions to my email history vs. those I've actually WANTED
>> in my contacts. B/c of this, I don't even bother managing my well
>> over 2000 contacts (and no I'm not that popular and I'm not a
>> stalker).
>
> This problem has been intriguing/haunting me for a while... especially
> since I've been using Thunderbird as my email client.
>
> It has a related problem in which if you want to show images from
> certain emails for "approved addresses" (like, for instance if I want
> images to appear from emails from Crate & Barrel or whatever), those
> email addresses have to be added to one's address book. This just seems
> silly to me.
>
> The same goes for contacts and memorized email addresses -- on the one
> hand, it's convenient for the client (or GMail) to remember addresses,
> but I don't necessarily want *everyone* to whom I've
> contacted/replied/forwarded an email be added to my contacts list or
> address book...
>
> I'm definitely in agreement with Dave that there needs to be a
> "convenience limbo" where those addresses I've used before can be
> brought up easily when I need them, but it's separate from my *actual*
> contact list. And I should be able to move them from the CL to my
> address book easily.
>
> grrr...
>
> ///eks
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Jay Morgan]

Going into Gmail Contacts, I click on "My Contacts" and find this:


My Contacts is a place to import, store and view all of the contact
information that's important to you. You can also create your own groups of
contacts to easily email many people at once.
We add people you've emailed to Suggested Contacts. You can move contacts
from Suggested Contacts into My Contacts at any time.
Automatically move suggested contacts into My Contacts if I frequently email
them.

Not sure if that option will fix it, but it's been checked for me and I'm
going to uncheck it in an attempt to remedy this.


Hope this helps.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Evan K. Stone <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > On the other hand, there is no way to distinguish between these
> > passive additions to my email history vs. those I've actually WANTED
> > in my contacts. B/c of this, I don't even bother managing my well
> > over 2000 contacts (and no I'm not that popular and I'm not a
> > stalker).
>
> This problem has been intriguing/haunting me for a while... especially
> since I've been using Thunderbird as my email client.
>
> It has a related problem in which if you want to show images from
> certain emails for "approved addresses" (like, for instance if I want
> images to appear from emails from Crate & Barrel or whatever), those
> email addresses have to be added to one's address book. This just seems
> silly to me.
>
> The same goes for contacts and memorized email addresses -- on the one
> hand, it's convenient for the client (or GMail) to remember addresses,
> but I don't necessarily want *everyone* to whom I've
> contacted/replied/forwarded an email be added to my contacts list or
> address book...
>
> I'm definitely in agreement with Dave that there needs to be a
> "convenience limbo" where those addresses I've used before can be
> brought up easily when I need them, but it's separate from my *actual*
> contact list. And I should be able to move them from the CL to my
> address book easily.
>
> grrr...
>
> ///eks
>
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Evan K. Stone]

> On the other hand, there is no way to distinguish between these
> passive additions to my email history vs. those I've actually WANTED
> in my contacts. B/c of this, I don't even bother managing my well
> over 2000 contacts (and no I'm not that popular and I'm not a
> stalker).

This problem has been intriguing/haunting me for a while... especially
since I've been using Thunderbird as my email client. 

It has a related problem in which if you want to show images from
certain emails for "approved addresses" (like, for instance if I want
images to appear from emails from Crate & Barrel or whatever), those
email addresses have to be added to one's address book. This just seems
silly to me.

The same goes for contacts and memorized email addresses -- on the one
hand, it's convenient for the client (or GMail) to remember addresses,
but I don't necessarily want *everyone* to whom I've
contacted/replied/forwarded an email be added to my contacts list or
address book...

I'm definitely in agreement with Dave that there needs to be a
"convenience limbo" where those addresses I've used before can be
brought up easily when I need them, but it's separate from my *actual*
contact list. And I should be able to move them from the CL to my
address book easily.

grrr...

///eks


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[David Malouf]

I also think (maybe) that there is an issue with Gmail's design here
as well. 

On the one hand the auto-add to my contacts that Gmail does is often
a G-d send. I know I can type an email address of almost anyone I've
ever replied to and Voila!  it is right there. 

On the other hand, there is no way to distinguish between these
passive additions to my email history vs. those I've actually WANTED
in my contacts. B/c of this, I don't even bother managing my well
over 2000 contacts (and no I'm not that popular and I'm not a
stalker). 

Since so many orgs are using Gmail as a quick way to "find" &
"connect" w/ the social network like Dave here, they should be
asked to do something about it, so that the intention behind
LinkedIn's request is not so harsh.

I'm just saying that if Gmail added some simple features it would be
better. It would make the contact list a lot more useful. This is
basically what Outlook does.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Dave Meeker]

Thanks Will... and again, sorry everyone!
What a bad situation!

For anyone who cares... here is the experience that I had which has
led to a zillion people I don't know that well getting LinkedIn
requests from me. That bothers me because I like LinkedIn a lot, but
ONLY use it for people I actually have connections with. And now, that
is shot.

When you add people from your Gmail address book (or any address
book), the LinkedIn UI shows you the full list of folks on-screen. I
selected about 10 people out of the two thousand-or so person list. I
clicked "send invitation", the page reloads, and at the top (which I
did not see) was the message that my invitations had been sent.
Honestly, to me, it didn't look as if anything had happened at all, so
I clicked "send invitations" AGAIN. When I did this I failed to
recognized that it had checked every single user by default, and there
was absolutely no way to stop it.

I'd love to see a different mechanism in place to handle looking up
people from your email accounts and sending them invites. I believe
the intention on LinkedIn's side is to get as many people to sign up
as possible. I understand that. I "get it". What I don't get is a
happy feeling knowing that I just sent spam out to a ton of people I
do not know, and now many of those people are acting on my request and
becoming "Connected to me". Good for LinkedIn... Bad for a LinkedIn
User.

Other than that, I love the service. But I would request that they
revist the experience design of this portion of the Web site.

Again... sorry everyone.

Dave

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Will Evans]

I believe we have a friend over at LinkedIn - Christina W. who can apologize
for LinkedIn's Bac'n generator :-)

I have come to despise Bac'n.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Dave Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> All -
>
> Please forgive my LinkedIn Request.
> I am about to fire off an email to them to tell them that the user
> experience of adding your friends from email is pretty poor, seeing as
> how every single person in my gmail account happened to get an email
> from them last evening... including about 5000 people I don't even
> know.
>
> I sincerely apologize for this!
>
> (and LinkedIn... I'd like you to apologize also!)
>
> Sorry folks,
>
>
> Dave
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Dave Meeker]

All -

Please forgive my LinkedIn Request.
I am about to fire off an email to them to tell them that the user
experience of adding your friends from email is pretty poor, seeing as
how every single person in my gmail account happened to get an email
from them last evening... including about 5000 people I don't even
know.

I sincerely apologize for this!

(and LinkedIn... I'd like you to apologize also!)

Sorry folks,


Dave

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Jared Spool]

On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:46 AM, Dave Meeker wrote:


IxDA,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Dave

Learn more:
https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/348896081/QV3O1sBw/


I'm sorry.

IxDA is not here right now.

Please leave your message at the tone and IxDA will get back to you  
shortly.


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[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Dave Meeker]

LinkedIn




   
IxDA,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Dave

Learn more:
https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/348896081/QV3O1sBw/


 
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