Inside PR: Do you trust LinkedIn recommendations?

On this week’s Inside PR podcast, Martin Waxman, Gini Dietrich and I talk about a question raised by FIR‘s Shel Holtz: should we trust recommendations of a person that are posted on LinkedIn?

Listen to this week’s podcast to hear our take on this question.

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  • http://twitter.com/gilliebee Gillian Brouse

    I so agree with Martin’s comment about those canned LinkedIn requests… If I really am your friend or respected former colleague, take a moment to say hi. If we know each other less well, tell me why you want to connect to me, or why I should connect to you. Is that so hard really?

    Timely subject for me as I’ve been cleaning up and updating my LI profile, and was thinking I was missing recos for some of my more recent gigs… I’ve never really solicited any before, and I tend to give them unsolicited to others. So I am torn. Anyway great conversation. Thanks for sharing.

    • http://www.propr.ca thornley

      Gillian, you are so right about the canned “connect with me” messages. I always write a personal note. Otherwise, it looks like I’m simply collecting links. And that’s what gives me the creepy “I’m being used.” feeling about LinkedIn.