Linkedin

I'm well behind now and just working through the things I've not looked at yet. I've long know about Linkedin but not felt I need a profile. I decided to follow the advice in the instructrions that you just take a look and decide whether you might use it. I found that to see anybody's full profile you really did have to register fully.
I was quite interested to see that linkedin seem to know about me though and, like Facebook, bombarded me with people I might know. It was interesting, for example I saw an ex music student who came to see me to talk about becoming a librarian, and I could see enough of her profile to see she has worked in two libraries. I was also led to the profile of Donna Flake a librarian in Wilmington, North Carolina who worked in the University Library on an exchange. I searched for Peter Maggs who some may remember worked here in Cataloguing and is now Deputy Librarian at Durham. His profile informed me he worked here 1993-1994. It doesn't seem that long ago...

From the above you can see my main interest in Linkedin is finding out about what has become of people in my past. I've got no real interest in setting up a profile, but would look here if I wanted to find out more about someone's professional interests