Colm O'Regan: Legends of LinkedIn

It's not good enough to learn new skills these days, you need to let others know you have them via social media

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In a world hungry for instant notification, most of the time I have nothing new to report. Repeated checking of Facebook responses, Twitter mentions and the email inbox mean I rarely get the pleasure of uncovering a back-log of news.

But today I’ve forgotten to check LinkedIn. For those of you who have somehow managed to live your lives without being pleased to announce something, LinkedIn is a social network like Twitter or Facebook.