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LinkedIn Hacks: Advanced Search Operators
I can’t help myself really. What’s the point of putting advanced search operators in the new LinkedIn Search platform if no one knows about them? So I have a new blog post up on the LinkedIn corporate...
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PDMA 2008: Building a World Class Web 2.0 Product Organization
Last year, I had the opportunity to speak at the PDMA International 2008 conference in Orlando, FL. I gave a talk entitled: “Building a World Class Web 2.0 Product Organization” While I posted this...
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Guide to Product Planning: Three Feature Buckets
In the spirit of capturing some of the observations that I find myself repeating, I’m adding this one to the mix tonight. Unlike the previous two, this is really a piece of concrete advice for product...
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Embrace the Minimum Necessary Change (MNC)
In keeping with my theme this week of blogging observations, this one ties together a basic tenet that I learned from science fiction in my pre-teen years, and applies it to product management. The...
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LinkedIn Recommendations & The Reputation Economy
Last Friday, I had a chance to write a good, solid piece about LinkedIn Recommendations for the official LinkedIn blog. In case you missed it, the article is here: LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn...
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LinkedIn Takes People Search to Eleven
I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap, but this is my personal blog after all. I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore. On Monday, LinkedIn made...
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LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0 is LIVE!
Just a quick note to say that the new version of LinkedIn for iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Download LinkedIn for iPhone I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the official LinkedIn blog, so...
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eBay’s Value Problem is a Search Problem
It has been quite a long time since I posted here about eBay. I still use the site regularly (I typically still list at least a few things every month), and while I may tweet about things from time to...
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The Man in the Gorilla Suit
A fun article appeared today on Silicon Alley Insider: Silicon Alley Insider: What’s It Like Working for LinkedIn by Nicholas Carlson It’s a short piece that covers the basics of working for a...
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LinkedIn for Blackberry: Get It Now
I know this is my personal blog, but sometimes launches are big enough that I feel compelled to announce them here as well. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn for Blackberry: Anytime, Anywhere You can download it...
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Tweets: LinkedIn, Twitter & Lists
Today I had the privilege of taking the wraps of a feature enhancement that my team has been working on for the past few weeks: the new version of Tweets. LinkedIn Blog: Find and Follow Your LinkedIn...
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Want Engagement? Find the Heat.
If you talk to product managers, designers, and engineers at almost any consumer internet company these days, you’ll find that they measure their success largely across three dimensions: Growth (more...
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Proposed Solution: Quicken 2007 & Mac OS X Lion
Right away, you should know something about me. I am a die-hard Quicken user. I’ve been using Quicken on the Mac since 1994, which happens to be the point in time where I decided that controlling my...
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How to Make a Great T-Shirt: Metrics
This is the third post in my series on “How to Make a Great Tech T-Shirt“. Define Success to Achieve Success On the consumer web, product managers succeed and fail based on their ability to define,...
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LinkedIn as a Platform
From the first conversations that I had with Reid Hoffman about LinkedIn, what was striking was the amazing clarity about how value is created by social web properties. Those conversations turned into...
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Designers: Getting the Most Out of Your Product Manager
I gave a lighthearted talk yesterday at the LinkedIn User Experience team’s all hands meeting. I called it “Getting the Most Out of Your Product Manager”, and it was intended to talk from the...
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Joining Greylock
Today, John Lilly put up a really nice note on the Greylock Partners blog officially welcoming me to the firm. Needless to say, I’m both honored and excited to be joining such a great team. We’re...
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Steve Jobs, BMW & eBay
There have been so many articles posted on Steve Jobs in the past week, I really thought I wasn’t going to add one here on my blog. However, yesterday, John Lilly wrote a great piece on Steve Jobs...
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Be a Great Product Leader
People who know me professionally know that I’m passionate about Product Management. I truly believe that, done properly, a strong product leader acts as a force multiplier that can help a...
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Pinterest & LinkedIn: Identity of Taste vs. Expertise
It’s hard to go three feet in Silicon Valley these days without someone commenting on the phenomenal engagement and growth being seen from Pinterest and other curation-based social platforms. What’s a...
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