LinkedIn Etiquette - Top 3 Things to remember...
Our clients are curious about some basic etiquette questions regarding LinkedIn, so we took some advice from the LinkedIn blog and provided it here. We expanded on #2 below as that seems to be the most common question we are getting. Check out the LinkedIn Blog post below for their suggestions.
1) If you wouldn't do it in person, don't do it on LinkedIn.
2) Know that it’s okay to turn down or ignore a connection request.
If you see a request from someone you don’t know, there are two ways to handle it:
Simply click “Ignore” to ignore the request or save it for the future.
Check out the person’s LinkedIn profile and, if it seems interesting, reply to the connection request with a short note. For instance, “Can you remind me how we know each other?” or “Can you let me know why you’d like to connect? I limit my network to people I know.” If the person is really interested in connecting, he or she will write back with more information. If you never hear from the person again, that personal probably wouldn’t have been a valuable contact anyway.
3) Don’t over promote yourself or your business.
http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/07/18/linkedin-etiquette-rules/
