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Valerie Gonyea

VALERIE GONYEA
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Advice on Potential Fraudulent LinkedIn Account

Yesterday I wrote a post about having multiple profiles on LinkedIn.  I suggested four reasons why or how this could happen.  I received a lot of funny offline comments from various people about having “multiple personalities”, but one email really stood out.  It was from a friend of mine and it went like this [I [...]

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Multiple Personalities Swimming in a Sea of Bad Personal Branding

One thing that I find interesting on LinkedIn is when I look up a person that I’ve met and they have more than one profile setup.  Aside from the fact that this practice is technically forbidden by the LinkedIn Terms of Service, it makes me wonder how it happened.  I’ve come up with four possibilities:

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Quality versus Quantity: The Dilemma of “Open” Networking

I hesitate to say that I am not an open networker because, to many people, that makes me a completely closed networker and that’s not true either. “Open networking” is a term used to describe people who will accept any social network invitation they receive without regard to relationship, approach or justification for the [...]

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The Seduction of the LinkedIn Invite

“And you are….? And you are here because…? And you are looking for…?…”

Many years ago there was a funny skit on Saturday Night Live about an absolutely clueless – and very obnoxious, receptionist who did not recognize very recognizable celebrity characters when they arrived at his desk. The receptionist would ask multiple questions [...]