atw: Re: atw: Re: LinkedIn endorsements
- From: "swapnilogale@xxxxxxxxx" <swapnilogale@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:10:05 +1000
A lot of recruiters do check my Linkedin profile before getting in touch with
me. Linkedin endorsements on the other hand are pointless. I have had friends
from school (who I haven't met in over 18 years) endorse me for skills they
wouldn't know I may have acquired after school.
I am happy for them to endorse me for whatever they think I am good at, only
because they are friends, but I am totally against endorsing anyone for
anything on Linkedin, even for people I have worked with.
Besides, to me, the word 'endorse' means 'to approve'. What gives me the
authority to approve someone's skills?
Swapnil
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----- Reply message -----
From: "Michelle Hallett" <michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: atw: Re: LinkedIn endorsements
Date: Sat, Jun 1, 2013 1:44 PM
I get a lot of interest in my skills from recruitment agencies so I’m inclined
to keep my LinkedIn profile. I’m not a very good networker so it I find it
useful. Michelle From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rafael Manory
Sent: Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:25 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: LinkedIn endorsements What I don't understand is where Linked
it is taking the items for endorsement from. They must be written somewhere in
the respective profile... I do share the views expressed here re endorsements
in general and Linkedin in particular but I think that closing the account
would not stop the harassment because most Linkedin messages are generated
because people allow their application to search individual mailing lists. So
if you are on the mailing list of someone who joins Linkedin you are likely to
recieve a message to either join Linkedin or login again because your
acquiantance is now a member... Rafael----- Original Message ----- From: Howard
Silcock To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 11:40
AMSubject: atw: Re: LinkedIn endorsements I was about to send a post suggesting
that Geoffrey and I were in danger of becoming the grumpy old men of this list
for our views on LinkedIn endorsements when I saw to my relief that others had
similar views! I have posted to this list before about this subject, suggesting
that it makes little sense to endorse someone for something unless you (a) are
familiar with their work - that is, have actually read documents they've
produced or seen other products of their labours - and (b) have some expertise
in the subject yourself. This makes me more churlish than Geoffrey, because it
implicitly casts doubt on some of the endorsements I've received for skills I
do have, as well as obviously implying that endorsing for skills I don't have
is just ridiculous. But Michelle's description of what the process actually
involves is very interesting. HowardOn 1 June 2013 10:44, Bill Parker
<bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:And just to show how silly this
whole bloody Linkedin thing is I have put in my profile "Morris Dancing" (
because I do). I completed that and then found myself ( no idea how) with
pages and pages of people with similar interests. What? Morris dancing? How
can that be? Bill On 01/06/2013, at 6:18 AM, Geoffrey wrote: Hello austechies
To the many of you who have endorsed me for skills I do have, thank you. To
those who have endorsed me for skills I do not have, what on earth were you
thinking? Are you deliberately trying to frame in the minds of others an image
of me that I am not? Folks, I am not a copy-writer, I have never been a
copy-writer, and don’t want in any way to be associated with the pernicious
black-art of copy-writing (with its screaming intensifications and its implicit
belittlements that border on psycho-abuse: “you have not truly lived unless you
have experienced the exhilaration and the sensual styling of the all newHowdie
V12”, “ Go on, be a real mum and give them Caries Flakes for breakfast and” …
you get my drift). So why are some you endorsing my non-existent copy-writing
skills? A miasma of deception commingling with defamation is nettling my
nostrils. And why are some of you endorsing my software development skills?
Crikey, I wouldn’t know a class statement if it reared up at me in bloody
revolution. And the last time I executed a branch, it fell smashingly on the
neighbour’s fence. Stop it, stop it, stop it. Resist the temptation to endorse
the dim-witted guesses of that cog-slipping, Watts-driven perpetuator of
misinformation, that generator of self-aggrandisement, called LinkedIn.
(Someone admitted the other day, to a table of lunching professionals who had
met through LinkedIn, that she had touched up her LinkedIn photograph to make
her look younger. I’m glad she was frank, because many of us had been wondering
when the other [name withheld] was going to turn up.) If anyone needs reminding
of just how dumb and misleading software can be, turn on your Microsoft Word’s
grammar checker. The absurdity of the recommendations of the world’s reputedly
smartest programmers might just inspire you to turn off a lot of other
software that clogs up our lives with pretend knowledge while pick-pocketing
our privacy along the way. In a word: stop misrepresenting others through
thoughtless endorsements. It sours morally no less than a deliberate lie. As
does photo-shopping a glamour you may once have thought you had. In a world of
lies, thank the gods for Mr Curly and his duck. Geoffrey MarnellPrincipal
ConsultantAbelard Consulting Pty LtdP: 03 9596 3456M: 0419 574 668F: 03 9596
3625W: www.abelard.com.au
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