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anigoBuenas tardes and bienvenidos to Communication Class Blog # 5, wherein Gina waxes poetically about this link.
If you're click-phobic or lazy (which is perfectly acceptable when reading this blog) I'll summarize by saying the link is about a young marketing professional who reached out to an older marketing professional who was running a job bank for... yup, you guessed it... marketing professionals!! The young jedi emailed the old master and followed up with a Linked in request, only to be b*tch-slapped into the stratosphere.
Being a young, hip (and to be clear, social-network savvy) professional, the young jedi did what any other young, hip, social-network savvy professional would do and posted the response for the world to see. And yup, the world saw it.
Now. I'm of a couple of minds on this.
My first mind is where I always go, which is that you only hear one side of the story. I'm probably more of a old master than a young Jedi, and I get any number of strange requests in my Linked in mailbox in the run of a year. I have to be honest, most of them I ignore. Like this one:
As written:
thank you so much for connect me, Am engineering currently in chicago I came across your linkedin page when i registered my linkedin some days back, and i have so many friends suggested by linkedin but i like your profile and your picture so i decided to write to you..please can you tell me a little about yourself and i will tell you more about me too... am waiting for yur reply
Now, I could have blasted the gentleman I've referred to behind the cut. But, meh, that's not my style. I'm afraid I ignored him. Yeah, he was probably spam anyway.
If, on the other hand, some 20-something-fresh-out-of-HR-school-self-entitled-cutiepie sent me a request telling me that I needed to hook her up with some connections...
Ok, who's kidding whom. I'd probably ignore her too. That, or I'd respond to her asking for more information on what she's hoping to achieve so I can help focus my answer. (I do like to make people work for stuff.) And if at the end of the day she's actually somebody who really does need a boost into the world I live in, I'd probably try to figure out how to suggest to her that the best way to gain entry is to be a little less obnoxious and a little more humble.
Ok, who's kidding whom. I'd probably ignore her.
So back to this particular article.
Any self professed marketing guru who doesn't think that her reputation is always and forever on the line any time she's in a public forum, and yes ladies and gentlemen, any electronic medium is a public forum... well... you might want to consider finding another occupation.
And it looks like she did. I couldn't find her on Linked in anymore.
A much blonder version of me can be found on Linked in. Feel free to "friend" me. I'll be happy toignore share my knowledge with you too!
If you're click-phobic or lazy (which is perfectly acceptable when reading this blog) I'll summarize by saying the link is about a young marketing professional who reached out to an older marketing professional who was running a job bank for... yup, you guessed it... marketing professionals!! The young jedi emailed the old master and followed up with a Linked in request, only to be b*tch-slapped into the stratosphere.
Being a young, hip (and to be clear, social-network savvy) professional, the young jedi did what any other young, hip, social-network savvy professional would do and posted the response for the world to see. And yup, the world saw it.
Now. I'm of a couple of minds on this.
My first mind is where I always go, which is that you only hear one side of the story. I'm probably more of a old master than a young Jedi, and I get any number of strange requests in my Linked in mailbox in the run of a year. I have to be honest, most of them I ignore. Like this one:
As written:
thank you so much for connect me, Am engineering currently in chicago I came across your linkedin page when i registered my linkedin some days back, and i have so many friends suggested by linkedin but i like your profile and your picture so i decided to write to you..please can you tell me a little about yourself and i will tell you more about me too... am waiting for yur reply
Now, I could have blasted the gentleman I've referred to behind the cut. But, meh, that's not my style. I'm afraid I ignored him. Yeah, he was probably spam anyway.
If, on the other hand, some 20-something-fresh-out-of-HR-school-self-entitled-cutiepie sent me a request telling me that I needed to hook her up with some connections...
Ok, who's kidding whom. I'd probably ignore her too. That, or I'd respond to her asking for more information on what she's hoping to achieve so I can help focus my answer. (I do like to make people work for stuff.) And if at the end of the day she's actually somebody who really does need a boost into the world I live in, I'd probably try to figure out how to suggest to her that the best way to gain entry is to be a little less obnoxious and a little more humble.
Ok, who's kidding whom. I'd probably ignore her.
So back to this particular article.
Any self professed marketing guru who doesn't think that her reputation is always and forever on the line any time she's in a public forum, and yes ladies and gentlemen, any electronic medium is a public forum... well... you might want to consider finding another occupation.
And it looks like she did. I couldn't find her on Linked in anymore.
A much blonder version of me can be found on Linked in. Feel free to "friend" me. I'll be happy to