Tag Archives: networking

Top 10 Reasons Why I’m Not on LinkedIn

Surprisingly, I’ve been asked more frequently if I’m on LinkedIn than if I “have a FaceBook” (a phrase that is the grammatical equivalent to scorpions in my pants). That’s probably because I tend to hang with people that are in my profession more than I do with the self-admiring crowd of vapid Generation-Y’ers that seem [...]

HP Says IT People Need To Get Social!

HP has decided that you, dear IT person, do not have enough social interaction with your peers. Twitter, blogs, IRC and forums? Pah! They are but mere facsimiles of true IT Social Networking greatness. Behold: 48upper.com. What does it mean? It’s not immediately obvious to most people that it is a reference to HP’s super-secret [...]