All Discussions Tagged 'linkedin' - Boolean Strings Network2024-03-28T17:49:43Zhttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=linkedin&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSourcing Contest #SourcingSolvedtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2014-01-29:2748775:Topic:1172712014-01-29T02:20:17.182ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>The Winter Sourcing Contest "SourcingSolved" is up! ("quiz" style, 8+1 questions), </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html">http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html</a></strong></p>
<p>Get famous and earn substantial prizes, to help you to source and to search even better.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Friday January 31, 2014</p>
<p>Please share! :)</p>
<p>The Winter Sourcing Contest "SourcingSolved" is up! ("quiz" style, 8+1 questions), </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html">http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html</a></strong></p>
<p>Get famous and earn substantial prizes, to help you to source and to search even better.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Friday January 31, 2014</p>
<p>Please share! :)</p> LinkedIn Contacts Have Just Doubled For Youtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2013-06-13:2748775:Topic:1054772013-06-13T17:13:59.243ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>The new <a href="http://contacts.linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn Contacts</a> feature is <a href="http://w3recruitment.com/2013/06/11/linkedin-contacts-cool-feature/" target="_blank">buggy</a> but it's opening up incredible people sourcing possibilities.</p>
<p>The terminology "contacts" and "connections" may be somewhat confusing. The all-new <em>LinkedIn Contacts</em> system allows LinkedIn members to merge the information about their contacts on several systems: 1) LinkedIn…</p>
<p>The new <a href="http://contacts.linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn Contacts</a> feature is <a href="http://w3recruitment.com/2013/06/11/linkedin-contacts-cool-feature/" target="_blank">buggy</a> but it's opening up incredible people sourcing possibilities.</p>
<p>The terminology "contacts" and "connections" may be somewhat confusing. The all-new <em>LinkedIn Contacts</em> system allows LinkedIn members to merge the information about their contacts on several systems: 1) LinkedIn itself, 2) Gmail, 3) Yahoo mail, 4) Outlook, and several more sources.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5103" title="contacts" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/contacts.jpg" alt="" width="416" height="216"/></p>
<p>Here's why this is cool:</p>
<p><span>1. You could create a Gmail account just for adding lists of people, therefore effectively merging </span><em>any</em><span> lists (being, for example, lists of a professional association members you'd locate on the web, or lists of people you find in Jigsaw or Zoominfo) with the member data on LinkedIn, no matter what your personal network is like. The merge is done using email addresses as the unique identifiers.</span><span><br/></span></p>
<p><span><span>2. For people whom you add from a different account, such as Google/Gmail, LinkedIn creates a </span></span><span>LinkedIn</span><span><span>-alike "profile", if it can't merge the imported data with its own. Therefore it creates <em>uniformity</em> of the presentation of professional profiles for people, no matter inside or outside of </span>LinkedIn,<em><span> for you, </span></em><span>as in this screenshot below. </span></span></p>
<p><span>This is not a member profile, but the profile of a contact I have added, who is not present on LinkedIn, or at least is not registered on LinkedIn with the given email address:</span><span><br/></span><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5104" title="google contact" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/added.jpg" alt="" width="443" height="209"/><span>3. Here's the </span><em>coolest</em><span> part. You can now <em>search</em> across groups of people who have been merged as external lists, on their names, titles, companies, and locations. This is a capability that has been implemented in the (cool but expensive) <a href="http://talent.linkedin.com/talentpipeline/" target="_blank">Talent Pipeline</a> a while ago.</span></p>
<p><span>Here is what this search may look like. The colored "in" icons point to my connections, the grayed out "in" icons point to people with whom I am not connected. The search results will show all the matching LinkedIn profiles, even for people outside of my network, as long as there was an email address match while merging.</span></p>
<p><span>The search is done across all of the Google-added people, but the search facets are applied to the LinkedIn data.</span><span><br/></span><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5105" title="search" src="http://booleanstrings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/search.jpg" alt="" width="565" height="244"/></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Here is an example of how this may be used.</p>
<p><em>Step 1.</em> Clear out your gmail-merged contacts if you have any.</p>
<p><em>Step 2.</em> Locate a list of people (say, get a list of members of a professional association). Names and email addresses is enough information to start with. Actually, even the names are not that necessary.</p>
<p><em>Step 3.</em> Upload the list to a gmail account.</p>
<p><em>Step 4.</em> Merge/connect the gmail account using the new Contacts</p>
<p><em>Now</em> you can search across this list of people<em> in terms of their LinkedIn data</em>: where they live, which companies they currently work for, and which job titles they have. To search, you would need to use "Google contacts" as the "Source", as in the screenshot above. The search itself <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2013/06/10/amazing-search-for-symbols-in-the-new-contacts/" target="_blank">is quite different from before</a>.</p>
<p><strong>WOW.</strong> This is incredible - and available for free, with any LinkedIn account.</p>
<p>If you try this out, get ready to be patient. There are numerous bugs. All the numbers shown are wrong, and there's lots more to complain about.</p>
<p>The less powerful but also quite wonderful <a href="http://booleanstrings.com/2010/06/20/reliable-email-address-verification/">upload-to-invite functionality</a> that has served <a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/" target="_blank">us</a> for years is mostly broken now.</p>
<p>But this stuff is better.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p> X-Raying #LinkedIn for Years of Experiencetag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2011-05-09:2748775:Topic:620742011-05-09T16:45:37.822ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<h2><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/x-raying-linkedin-for-years-of-experience/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to X-Raying #LinkedIn for Years of Experience">X-Raying #LinkedIn for Years of Experience</a></h2>
<div class="entry"><p>It’s always a challenge to include a range of years of experience in a particular area when searching on the open web. With the new LinkedIn <em>Skills</em> section – that shows up in public profiles by default – we now have a…</p>
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<h2><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/x-raying-linkedin-for-years-of-experience/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to X-Raying #LinkedIn for Years of Experience">X-Raying #LinkedIn for Years of Experience</a></h2>
<div class="entry"><p>It’s always a challenge to include a range of years of experience in a particular area when searching on the open web. With the new LinkedIn <em>Skills</em> section – that shows up in public profiles by default – we now have a unique way to do that.</p>
<p>Check it out. The following string uses Google’s <em>Numrange</em> function, Google’s asterisk “*” that stands for a word or a few words, and the X-ray operator <em>site:</em></p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/kUd3gS"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2169" title="experience" src="http://booleanstrings.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/experience.gif?w=560&h=402" width="560" height="402"/></a></p>
</div> Has LinkedIn pulled out a plug on sending messages to Group Members?tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2011-03-25:2748775:Topic:599712011-03-25T08:14:57.500ZSarang Brahmehttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/sarangbrahme1
<p>Yesterday I read an article about this rumor... today, it is true for me at least.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I came across few people who are in my groups; however I can not send them a message through regular account. It is asking me to InMail. I do have a LinkedIn Recruiter account as well. I can easily send them a direct message through that account.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I've tried this on several profiles and stands the same. Can anyone verify if it is happening for them as well?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am…</p>
<p>Yesterday I read an article about this rumor... today, it is true for me at least.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I came across few people who are in my groups; however I can not send them a message through regular account. It is asking me to InMail. I do have a LinkedIn Recruiter account as well. I can easily send them a direct message through that account.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I've tried this on several profiles and stands the same. Can anyone verify if it is happening for them as well?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am attaching screen-shots for reference.</p> 7 Important #LinkedIn Changestag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2011-03-16:2748775:Topic:595562011-03-16T15:45:40.847ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p><img src="http://booleanstrings.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/spotthedifferences.gif"></img></p>
<p>Life is not boring if you are a sourcer or a recruiter and use LinkedIn; most of us do. Here is a brief list of several major recent changes on LinkedIn that affect our work for sure. Please feel free to add to this in the comments.</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Company search</em>. We have many "facets" to search for available in the newly implemented dialog; that's great. The search algorithm implementation is quite "<em>interesting</em>" though. If someone at a company has a keyword…</li>
</ul>
<p><img src="http://booleanstrings.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/spotthedifferences.gif"/></p>
<p>Life is not boring if you are a sourcer or a recruiter and use LinkedIn; most of us do. Here is a brief list of several major recent changes on LinkedIn that affect our work for sure. Please feel free to add to this in the comments.</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Company search</em>. We have many "facets" to search for available in the newly implemented dialog; that's great. The search algorithm implementation is quite "<em>interesting</em>" though. If someone at a company has a keyword on their profile, the whole company will be included in search results. Expect to see member's and company's profiles that show up in your search that have little to do with your keyword.</li>
<li><em>Job posts</em> on groups have been renamed to "<em>career discussions</em>" and are now hidden under a link that is not obvious for a group visitor. The Jobs Tab on Groups is now taken over by paid LinkedIn job posts and is searcheable. The "career discussions" remain without a search function.</li>
<li><em>Company Profiles </em>have rich information available for adding in the products and services section; it now can even include video. That's good news! (Still on my to-do list for <a target="_parent" href="http://www.braingainrecruiting.com/">Brain Gain Recruiting</a>).</li>
<li><em>Public profile</em> settings have been moved from "account settings" to very near "editing profile" function and are likely to be quickly discovered by anyone who edits their profile. Most members are likely to make it more shallow, I think.</li>
<li><em>Skills </em>have become a part of everyone's profile and that is good news. Search for skills is separate from people search (why?). "Skills" also made it to public profiles. Very small % of LinkedIn members have filled them out so far - and you should!</li>
<li><em>Messaging on Groups</em> is still there but you have to dig deep to discover it: the search results of fellow group members now show only the "Send InMail" option.<em> In general, if you don't see an option previously available, don't panic right away (I have to admit that <a title="X-ray" href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/x-raying-linkedin-may-be-coming-to-an-end/">I did</a> recently myself); it may be hidden somewhere on the site. </em>Of course, most of us see the tendecies and expect certain featues to be diminishing in the near future.</li>
<li><em>Sharing </em>is now possible not just on your status line, within groups and with connections; you can enter any email address to share a link with. Not bad! Just needs a little debugging.</li>
</ul>
<div><p>This is not an exhaustive list by any means.</p>
<p>What are your predictions as to what is going to change in the near and far future?</p>
<p>-Irina</p>
</div>
<p><a title="Irina " href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva">LinkedIn Profile with Skills</a> (happy to connect)</p> Mini-Sourcing Contesttag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-08-26:2748775:Topic:448412010-08-26T17:25:29.342ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
Email your answers to <a href="mailto:contest@booleanstrings.com">contest@booleanstrings.com</a><div><br></br></div>
<div>1. What are some pages on the open web that contain information in Excel format but cannot be found by using the <i>filetype:</i> command on Google? Provide an example.</div>
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<div>2. Name at least one Bing search capability that Google doesn't have. (Extra points for sharing in a post.)</div>
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<div>3. Who joined LinkedIn right after (or soon…</div>
Email your answers to <a href="mailto:contest@booleanstrings.com">contest@booleanstrings.com</a><div><br/></div>
<div>1. What are some pages on the open web that contain information in Excel format but cannot be found by using the <i>filetype:</i> command on Google? Provide an example.</div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>2. Name at least one Bing search capability that Google doesn't have. (Extra points for sharing in a post.)</div>
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<div>3. Who joined LinkedIn right after (or soon after) you did? Please explain.</div>
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<div>4. If you look at a person's profile on LinkedIn but do not see a link to the person's public profile, how can you find it using LinkedIn search (<i>not</i> a search engine)?</div>
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<div>5. How many people have the word <i>Boolean</i> in their Twitter bio? Out of them, who was the first to join Twitter?</div>
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<div>Also, posting sourcing advice here on the forum adds points.</div>
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<div>The winner can be a guest at one of my future webinars.</div> List of the Country Codes on LinkedIntag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-05-31:2748775:Topic:395152010-05-31T00:45:14.620ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p class="MsoNormal">Last year Ted Meulenkamp pointed us to the country-specific URLs for LinkedIn profiles in his post <a href="http://booleanstrings.ning.com/forum/topics/new-boolean-xray-for-linkedin">new boolean X-ray for Linkedin</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have collected and pasted the 99 codes below. This is useful information for someone who searches within one country and - especially - within several countries at the same time.To X-ray you would…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Last year Ted Meulenkamp pointed us to the country-specific URLs for LinkedIn profiles in his post <a href="http://booleanstrings.ning.com/forum/topics/new-boolean-xray-for-linkedin">new boolean X-ray for Linkedin</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have collected and pasted the 99 codes below. This is useful information for someone who searches within one country and - especially - within several countries at the same time.To X-ray you would write a string like this on Google:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br/> <i>site:URL1 OR site:URL2... <keywords> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br/></p>
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<table>
<col width="231" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:8448;width:173pt"></col><col width="168" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:6144;width:126pt"></col><tbody><tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" class="xl63" width="231" style="height:12.75pt;width:173pt"><b>Country</b></td>
<td class="xl63" width="168" style="width:126pt"><b>URL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Afghanistan<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>af.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Albania<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>al.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Algeria<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>dz.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Argentina<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ar.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Australia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>au.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Austria<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>at.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Bahrain<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>bh.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Bangladesh<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>bd.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Belgium<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>be.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Bolivia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>bo.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Bosnia and Herzegovina<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ba.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Brazil<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>br.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Bulgaria<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>bg.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Canada<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ca.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Chile<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>cl.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">China<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>cn.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Colombia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>co.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Costa Rica<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>cr.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Croatia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>hr.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Cyprus<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>cy.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Czech Republic<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>cz.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Denmark<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>dk.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Dominican Republic<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>do.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Ecuador<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ec.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Egypt<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>eg.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">El Salvador<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>sv.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Estonia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ee.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Finland<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>fi.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">France<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>fr.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Germany<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>de.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Ghana<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>gh.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Greece<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>gr.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Guatemala<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>gt.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Hong Kong<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>hk.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Hungary<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>hu.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Iceland<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>is.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">India<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>in.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Indonesia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>id.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Iran<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ir.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Ireland<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ie.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Israel<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>il.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Italy<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>it.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Jamaica<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>jm.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Japan<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>jp.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Jordan<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>jo.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Kazakhstan<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>kz.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Kenya<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ke.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Korea<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>kr.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Kuwait<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>kw.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Latvia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>lv.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Lebanon<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>lb.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Lithuania<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>lt.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Luxembourg<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>lu.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Macedonia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>mk.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Malaysia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>my.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Malta<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>mt.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Mauritius<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>mu.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Mexico<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>mx.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Morocco<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ma.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Nepal<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>np.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Netherlands<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>nl.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">New Zealand<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>nz.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Nigeria<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ng.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Norway<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>no.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Oman<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>om.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Pakistan<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>pk.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Panama<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>pa.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Peru<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>pe.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Philippines<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ph.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Poland<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>pl.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Portugal<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>pt.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Puerto Rico<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>pr.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Qatar<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>qa.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Romania<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ro.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Russian Federation<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ru.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Saudi Arabia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>sa.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Singapore<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>sg.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Slovak Republic<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>sk.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Slovenia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>si.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">South Africa<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>za.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Spain<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>es.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Sri Lanka<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>lk.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Sweden<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>se.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Switzerland<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ch.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Taiwan<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>tw.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Tanzania<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>tz.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Thailand<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>th.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Trinidad and Tobago<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>tt.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Tunisia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>tn.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Turkey<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>tr.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Uganda<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ug.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Ukraine<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ua.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">United Arab Emirates<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ae.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">United Kingdom<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>uk.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">United States<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com">www.linkedin.com</a></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Uruguay<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>uy.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Venezuela<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>ve.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Viet Nam<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>vn.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:12.75pt"><td height="17" style="height:12.75pt">Zimbabwe<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></td>
<td>zw.linkedin.com</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<td class="xl63" width="271" style="width:203pt"><br/></td>
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<br/><p></p> Mini-contest #2: Hunt for a Public Profile on LinkedIntag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-05-27:2748775:Topic:393732010-05-27T15:56:18.812ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The first 3 people who find the person's public URL - or prove that the person is hiding his/her profile from Google - get a pass to the webinar …</span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The first 3 people who find the person's public URL - or prove that the person is hiding his/her profile from Google - get a pass to the webinar <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://booleanstrings.ning.com/events/linkedin-profiles-an-indepth" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118);"><b>LinkedIn Profiles: an In-Depth Look</b></a><b> </b>on June 8th</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br/></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Thanks to Glen Cathey for giving me an idea and providing the screenshot for this contest! </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br/></span></div>
<div><p style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1267854737?profile=original" alt=""/></span></p>
</div> Exploring Private Profiles on LinkedIntag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-05-22:2748775:Topic:389892010-05-22T00:52:05.754ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<div><div><p class="q-details" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/exploring-private-profiles-on-linkedin/"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:HSlXRtE1lc4PlM:http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/images/2007/05/24/private_470x315.jpg"/></a></span></p>
<p class="q-details" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/exploring-private-profiles-on-linkedin/"><br/></a></span></p>
<p class="q-details" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><br/></span></font></p>
<p class="q-details" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2">Read - and check out an example of a private profile - here: </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/exploring-private-profiles-on-linkedin/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2">Exploring Private Profiles on LinkedIn</font></a></p>
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</div> Got Search Strings? (New Sourcing Contest)tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-04-28:2748775:Topic:379142010-04-28T20:37:59.404ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<div>Dear All, </div>
<div><br></br></div>
<div>Here is a new mini-contest for you. </div>
<div><br></br></div>
<div>1. Both Bing and Google have the operator “filetype”. What is the difference, if any? Are there any pages that can be reached with one engine but not with the other? </div>
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<div>2. My LinkedIn People Finder has refinements to search for people from 8 different countries. It works very well but there's one flaw I am aware of. Can you find it? Please find a case where it…</div>
<div>Dear All, </div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>Here is a new mini-contest for you. </div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>1. Both Bing and Google have the operator “filetype”. What is the difference, if any? Are there any pages that can be reached with one engine but not with the other? </div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>2. My LinkedIn People Finder has refinements to search for people from 8 different countries. It works very well but there's one flaw I am aware of. Can you find it? Please find a case where it would bring up a wrong profile (not from the selected country) when you use one of the refinements. </div>
<div><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/linkedin-people-finder-international/">http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/linkedin-people-finder-international/</a> </div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>3. How many people are there currently on Twitter, approximately, who are Software Developers working with .NET technology? Please explain. (Hint: they would not necessarily say ".NET Developer" in the bio) </div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>The winner will have a pass to my Twitter Webinar next Tue <a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/find-the-right-people-on-twitter-expanded-verson/"><b>http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/find-the-right-people-on-twitter-expanded-verson/</b></a>, or to a future webinar of his/her choice, and will be featured. </div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>Deadline: EOB Monday May 10. </div>
<div>Please email your submissions to contest@booleanstrings.com </div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>Irina </div>
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