The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association
Issue link: https://epubs.iltanet.org/i/21494
must be within three feet of the other person. If you have three minutes to make a good impression with a CEO and you spend it trying to bump contact information, simply put, you probably will fail. BECOME A LINKEDIN APP POWER USER Now, here’s the really good stuff. One of the more annoying features of LinkedIn in general is the security feature that requires you to know someone’s e-mail address if you invite them to connect. To bypass this, LinkedIn will sell you “In Mail” invitations, which seem like a waste of money. There are times when you know someone, but you just don’t know their current e-mail address. (Isn’t that why you want to reconnect in the first place?) In light of the spam threat, most professionals do not publish their e-mail address; it is protected like gold and some will even change it regularly. The more senior a person is, the more likely is this scenario. The LinkedIn iPhone app has a “loophole” that lets you send invitations to anyone, regardless of their privacy setting and without knowing the person’s e-mail address. The app doesn’t prompt you for the e-mail address, it just sends your invitation! Furthermore, the app doesn’t ask how you know the person — so you don’t have to exaggerate your “we’ve done business together” introductory message. Whenever you get stonewalled by an e-mail validation prompt on the LinkedIn site, just cancel the invitation to connect and switch to the iPhone app for smooth sailing. One might say that any app is good enough if it is free. However, from experience, using a free, poorly designed and featureless app is painful and it will get deleted quickly. But the latest generation of the iPhone LinkedIn app would even be worth a few bucks given the features and the loophole for “Invitations to Connect.” Given that it is free, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to learn how to use this really helpful app and gain the opportunity to avoid a really annoying aspect of LinkedIn’s website. ILTA Bill Caraher is the CIO at von Briesen & Roper, a Milwaukee-based law firm. Bill has over 17 years of extensive experience managing and supporting technology in fast- paced environments. He is very passionate about gadgets, social media, marketing, branding and helping people engage their customers in new media. You can reach Bill via e-mail: bcaraher@vonbriesen.com, on his personal site: http://www.whatusk.com, or via Twitter: @whatusk. LinkedIn v3.3 for iPhone: LinkedIn Links: www.linkedin.com/iphone LinkedIn for BlackBerry: www.linkedin.com/blackberry LinkedIn for Android: http://droidin.net 102 www.iltanet.org Peer to Peer