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| | Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:48:48 -0600 | | | The Integrated Alliances (IA) SocialNet Ball 2008 is this Sat. Dec. 20 th
at the lovely newly renovated Renaissance Hotel at Denver Stapleton. It features NEW, LOWER PRICING - just $39 per person (on-line, $49 at the door). Plus to help all Social Networkers get thru this Economic Tsunami it also includes registration for every attendee to a Free IA LinkedIn Fundamentals Webinar ($39 value) to be scheduled during the First Quarter 2009! This 6 th
annual IA holiday event partners with Rotary of Colorado, supports their End Polio Now Charity and includes a silent auction. Other partners include The DaVinci Institute, Denver Young Professionals, Brand Iron Marketing and Jobing.com. So, we've added a contest for the most attendees from each Colorado Rotary Club or Partner Association. The event opens for cocktails and registration at 6pm, exhibits open at 7pm and runs until midnight. It features a casino style gaming room plus a Men's Fashion Show by MetroBoom and live performance by U2 Tribute Band "Under a Blood Red Sky" (www.uabrs.com) in the main ball room starting at 9:30pm. Attire is simply "dressy". A $69 hotel package ($89 with breakfast for two) is available. Information and Registration are at www.DenverHolidayParty.com. Call 303-683-9600 ext 14 for group pricing. We hope to see you there! Lori Ruff, CAO Integrated Alliances LLC For More Information: www.LoriOnIA.com 303-683-9600 ext 14 Skype: loriruff Follow me on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/LoriRuff Events and Training: www.IALinkedInTraining.com View my Professional Profile at: www.LoriRuff.com Connect with me on LinkedIn: www.LinkToLori.com Create a profile on Fast Pitch! at www.LoriOnFastPitch.com | |
| | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:40:31 -0600 | | | Hello, Integrated Alliances is teaming up with Miller Heiman and Hoovers to deliver a FREE webinar for sales and marketing professionals and you're invited. Over 3,000 are already signed up to attend. The highlight of the presentation is a talk about developing channel partners and monetizing business social networking and LinkedIn in particular. The Webinar will be hosted by Mike O'Neil and Rich Blakeman, SVP at Miller Heiman. It starts at 11am PST (1pm EST) and runs 1 hour. Webinar participants get an exclusive Integrated Alliances Top 10 Business Social Networking Tips guide. Please click on this link to register for the FREE sales and marketing webinar. Sincerely, Mike O'Neil, CEO, Integrated Alliances View my LinkedIn profile at www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoneil ... I have 11,000+ direct connections Invite me to your LinkedIn network now and add up to 1.3 Million people to YOUR network! 303-683-9600 Office | 866-516-7823 Toll Free | 720-596-5214 FAX | Skype: IntegratedAlliances | |
| | Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:14:02 -0600 | | | Hello, LinkedIn has some new developments in the LinkedIn End User License Agreement (EULA). Things that were common are now forbidden. Worse yet, very few people know about this and users are subject to having their account terminated. You cannot have e-mail addresses, phone numbers, addresses or other "confidential" information in your profile. Here's a good one "LinkedIn may terminate the Agreement for any or no cause, at any time, with or without notice, which shall be effective immediately or as may be specified in the notice." Or, how about this "LinkedIn may limit the number of connections you may have to other users and prohibit you from contacting other users through use of the Services." All of this is on top of LinkedIn now limiting the number of groups that ypou may belong to down to just 50. If there were not 100,000 groups that might be reasonable, but a search on the word "marketing" yields 3,020 results and there is no way to tell which are big ones or the small ones without opening each up individually. Why are there so many? Because LinkedIn approved so many. The EULA can be found on the bottom of each LinkedIn page under the text link "User Agreement". Have a nice read for yourself and see how this smells to you. Mike O'Neil President, Integrated Alliances | |
| | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:29:27 -0600 | | | Hello, There is a great new video on LinkedIn done by the video basics producer extraordinaire Lee Levefer. It is called "LinkedIn in Plain English". Lee has produced videos on social networking that we use in our workshops and webinars and they have been very well received. This video is a great primer even for advanced users as it lets us all explain "LinkedIn in Plain English" to others. I highly suggest you view this video and all the others he has on his site www.commoncraft.com. On the humorous side, take a look at the Zombies video! From Wiki's to Blogs and everything else in between, Lee is a great explainer of these technologies. All the best, Mike O'Neil, President and CEO www.Integratedalliances.com View my LinkedIn profile at www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoneil ... I have 10,000+ direct connections Invite me to your LinkedIn network now and add up to 1.3 Million people to YOUR network! 303-683-9600 Office | 866-516-7823 Toll Free | 720-596-5214 FAX | Skype: IntegratedAlliances | |
| | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:15:56 -0600 | | | Training for LinkedIn? Yes, that's what we do! There is a raging debate going on about why you would need training on a "website"? What we've found is that savvy business people are flocking to LinkedIn in droves. Over 20 million people worldwide. You may even have accepted a few invitations and have a LinkedIn account. But are you really using it? Are you too busy to get everything out of LinkedIn that you could? Our students fully leverage what LinkedIn has to offer and turn their relationships into revenues. Here's what we cover: Linkedin 101 Basic Workshop or Webinar Create a super-effective optimized profile to "be found" We'll show you how to build your network systematically by inviting others You decide if you want a "Quality" network (small) or a "Quantity" network (large) Searching and other business applications LinkedIn's rules, culture and etiquette Specialized Workshops and Webinars for: Sales and Marketing Professionals Recruiters and HR Professionals Job Hunters Realtors Advanced Network Building Linkedin 201 Advanced Workshop or Webinar Ethically build your network wide and deep Positioning Yourself in Your Markets and Networks Effective Recommendation techniques and strategies LinkedIn Answers usage and strategies LinkedIn Groups and Yahoo Groups Using the Advanced Features of LinkedIn Linkedin 301 Business Development Webinar Using LinkedIn for Business and Market Development You could spend months of your own valuable time researching and trying to figureout all the amazing things you can do with a well-built LinkedIn network. But you run the risk of making a few fatal errors than can get your account shut down and spend even more time trying to get it cleared up with customer service. Spend just a few hours with us and you will know more than 99% of over 20 million LinkedIn users and be able to fully leverage the opportunities in your network. Please see our upcoming LinkedIn webinar training line-up in our Integrated All ... | |
| | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:36:00 -0600 | | | Hello, In the course of conducting my LinkedIn training workshops I often discover useful things that I feel I should share. Some are simple and some are not. Below are some interesting things I think you will find helpful in your LinkedIn usage. We've gleaned these "Golden Nuggets" from completing over 100 workshops and webinars. So, here are some LinkedIn Profile tips. Recently, I showed LinkedIn users how to put special formatting characters ( and #9474; and #9612; and #9674; and #9658; and #9668; and #8596; ... ") into their profiles to make them more interesting and more readable. Now you see a lot of them. We teach people how to use them in our Integrated Alliances (IA) LinkedIn Hands-On workshops and webinars and include them in the MS Word templates we provide. So, just how much "Real Estate" do I have to work with on my LinkedIn Profile? I had a project recently to find out just how much space we have to work with in each field on LinkedIn. It lets you know where the lines are drawn and that can help a lot in making you most visible. We always suggest that you create and maintain your master LinkedIn profile text in MS Word and then cut and past the text into LinkedIn. Picture - 85 pixels by 85 pixels (after cropping) using a professional photo Headline/Header - 110 Characters Summary - 2,000 Characters (about 2/3 of a printed page) Specialties - 500 Character Company Name - 90 Characters Job Title - 100 Characters Job Description - 1,000 Characters Education Activities and Societies - 500 Characters Education Additional Notes - 1,000 Characters Custom Web site URL Tag (Other) - 30 Characters Interests - 1,000 Characters Groups and Associations - 1,000 Characters Honors and Awards - 1,000 Characters Contact Settings - Lots, but no way to effectively tell how many - really A fully optimized Profile is one of the keys to being found and helps you find new opportunities using LinkedIn. So, we've developed the IA LinkedIn and #174; 101 Workshops and Webi ... | |
| | Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0600 | | | Hello, Welcome to the IntegratedBlog.com by Integrated Alliances LLC based in Denver, CO. Our goal is to make the IntegratedBlog your source for business social networking information, training, tips, tricks and tools to help you maximize your use of LinkedIn and other business social networks. To accomplish that goal the IntegratedBlog will be publishing entries from a variety of authors and sources on a wide range of topics to keep you up to date on what's happening in the business social networking world. Integrated Alliances (IA) is a business social networking company offering LinkedIn training and other social media training that helps you integrate your on-line networking and your face-to-face "off-line" networking efforts for maximum effect. IA offers LinkedIn Webinars and local LinkedIn Workshops. IA also hosts monthly SocialNet" networking events for B2B and Technology professionals plus monthly free LinkedIn Live! networking events for on-line networkers. Please feel free to join in on any of the blogs by posting a comment and we'll blog right back at you! Sincerely, Mike O'Neil, CEO and President www.integratedalliances.com Please check out my LinkedIn profile at: www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoneil | |
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