Networking is good, relations even better - but an empty endorsement is worth nothing

Linked up the wazoo

Are you also receiving LinkedIn's version of poking - the random endorsements you get every time you log in to LinkedIn? And you know that meanwhile all your friends and other relations will be prompted to share how amazing your skills are? That your copy writing is the bomb - and that you master the fine art of Danish -(or eating a lot of them) or even Swedish and the even more noble art of Tampering with large mammels and predators (that is if you are my buddy Michael from the Ree Park Zoo, that is)

Honestly I got very flattered the first 50 times some body "shared" my skills with in communication, copy writing, corporate whatever and being nice to the elderly - but now it is getting a little flat like a soda shaken so many times, that the only thing you get out of it is thin air. Well - all in all - LinkedIn IS a good network - and sharing your perception of other people's skills is certainly a good thing - but let's get off the high networking horse and have some fun - which I had. So check out the phoney LinkedIN endorsements here at my blog - and do share your own.

Let's begin with Paul - he is so skilled :-)