[ale] George P Burdell

[Jeff Lightner]

Linked-In is good for keeping track of past contacts.  It's also a nice
way to keep links to ex-bosses so you know where they are when you need
a reference for a new job.

People change jobs/locations and even companies change names so having a
person as your link rather than hoping you know where they are at the
moment is a nice help.

By the way - Linked In does most of its associations by company mentions
- the German Engineer may have listed a company/location in his profile
that you also have in yours.

The only downside to Linked In is that different people put in
variations of names for the same company so on occasion you have to edit
things to insure the contact shows as related to the variation of the
name you have rather than the one they have.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Freemyer
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:17 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] George P Burdell

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:18 PM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> I just got linked to George P Burdell at linked-in.  Somehow that
puts
>> a smile on my face.
>>
>> If you don't know  George, you can ignore this, but I suspect many of
>> you had classes with him.  I just don't remember him ever showing up.
>> ;)
>
> Worked at GTRI in Cobb for 11 years so I know the old rascals
reputation
> well:)
>
> Question about linked-in. Is there a master list of all the sub
groups?
>
> Seems like a neat concept and I am curious if there are any other
border line
> professionals (Senior peons?) such as technicians using the service.
Toying
> with joining anyway to try and find some of my former coworkers.
> --
> William

Lots of people are in it.  Recently it seems everyone I look for is in
there.  I don't know how many members total, but I've got 1.8 million
contacts within 3 connections.  (120 or so direct)

As to groups, it seems pretty chaotic.  I assume anyone can create one
for any reason.  I joined my first one a month or two ago.  Mostly
because it puts a pretty logo below my name when I show up in a
search.

What I do is: ask people to connect that I can remember and for whom I
have e-mail addresses.  Then if they accept, you can typically see
their connections and ask them to connect directly to you without
having to know their email address.  Once they're connected, you can
see their email address, so it allows you to reconnect with people
that you have lost touch with.  Of course, then you get to look at
their connections, so it is an iterative process.

One of the interesting things they do is on the home page throw up
names of people they think you may know.  I had it throw up a German
Engineer I worked with 10-12 years ago.  I have no idea how it decided
I might know him, but I did.

Anyway George P. has about 1000 connections I think, so if your
looking for GTRI people they may be connected to him.  Or to someone
connected to him.

Greg
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