So a few days ago, Adam sent me an invite to LinkedIn, which is a "social networking site for professionals." I'm a little suspicious about the whole "social networking" thing anyway, especially the ones where it's a competition to see who can get the most "friends," when they don't know half of them, but I have heard good things about LinkedIn from other people, and it's no surprise to anyone that knows me that I am interested in finding a new job and getting the hell out of Dodge, so I decided to take the plunge and give it a shot.
After creating my profile, I decided to poke around and see who else I was linked to with a few vague keywords like "game design," "roleplaying games," and a few other things. I expected to get a fair number of hits, especially because Adam knows a lot of people in the field (surprise, surprise) and a few other friends of mine are somewhat involved with computer games industry or have friends who are, but I did not expect to see some of the names there that I did. Probably the most surprising was to see Tom Dowd listed as three degrees away from me; as a screaming Shadowrun fangirl, that was pretty sweet. I also saw that I was three degrees from Greg Costikyan and a VP of Engineering at CCP, both of which were pretty neat.
I'm somewhat suspicious of claims that this will totally revolutionize my world, but as a networking tool it's actually kind of neat. Much better than my previous experiences with these sorts of things; the test will be to see if it actually helps me out in the long run.
After creating my profile, I decided to poke around and see who else I was linked to with a few vague keywords like "game design," "roleplaying games," and a few other things. I expected to get a fair number of hits, especially because Adam knows a lot of people in the field (surprise, surprise) and a few other friends of mine are somewhat involved with computer games industry or have friends who are, but I did not expect to see some of the names there that I did. Probably the most surprising was to see Tom Dowd listed as three degrees away from me; as a screaming Shadowrun fangirl, that was pretty sweet. I also saw that I was three degrees from Greg Costikyan and a VP of Engineering at CCP, both of which were pretty neat.
I'm somewhat suspicious of claims that this will totally revolutionize my world, but as a networking tool it's actually kind of neat. Much better than my previous experiences with these sorts of things; the test will be to see if it actually helps me out in the long run.
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