12.2.07
0
Great post from John Ettorre:
“‘Cleveland is a perplexing economy,’ according to Dr. Chmura. ‘It should be growing faster than it is because the industry mix is more favorable than the state and the region has so many attractive qualities such as the arts, cultural attractions, recreational opportunities, and professional sports teams…’
Bonus from this post—Jane Campbell’s LinkedIn profile. You’d think she’d have more connections…
5 Comments
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Re: JC’s LI profile… some possibilities…
* Maybe she is selective on who she links with? Actually connecting to people she knows!
* But yes, you would think she knows more than 24 people…
* But then again, Cleveland is known for its economic cliques, small groups who all know one another, but very few or no connections outside the clique
* And that — cliques — might be why Cleveland underperforms on job creation! Innovation happens at the intersections and if there are very few intersections[between tight clusters/cliques], then there are very few opportunities for innovation, which create new companies/jobs, etc, etc, etc.
* But it may be as simple as: she tried LI, did not find it useful, and stopped adding new contacts.
Rate this comment:
+0 | December 2, 2007 @ 1:12 pm
More thoughts about the advantage of intersections… http://tinyurl.com/2dq7gl
Rate this comment:
+0 | December 2, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Well, she’s connected to:
Don Iannone
Jeff Stacklin
Lou Tisler
Daniel Moulthrop
and if that’s any indication of how selective she’s being…
Rate this comment:
+1 | December 2, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
Also, the usefulness of LI isn’t very apparent over the short-term.
Rate this comment:
+2 | December 2, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
I’ve found it remarkably useful. Unfortunately, there appears to be a better than average chance that Rupert Murdoch will soon be buying Linkedin, which means I may have to stop using it on general principle.
Rate this comment:
+0 | December 3, 2007 @ 11:40 am