LinkedIn Spam Unabated

LinkedIn Spam continues unabated - despite LinkedIn claiming that their security is unbreakable and that all 66 "people" listed as employees of !nnovabiz are geniune profiles, I contend that the bulk of these entries are bogus! 

LinkedIn are "hiding" behind Privacy regulations to avoid taking any action. Can't wait for Google+ to get the business profiles up and running!

Anyone else having similar experiences with LinkedIn?

Interesting Mindmapping Tool

I’ve just discovered a “new” (to me at least) online mindmapping tool that looks very interesting.  It’s Flash (swf), which means it isn’t Mac-friendly, but for us Android geeks, that’s not such a problem! http://www.innovabiz.com.au/mindmapping/spicynodes/

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I've setup an email to Posterous redirection, that allows my Google Plus posts to then be sent to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Blogger, all from the Posterous account. Had to do a redirection via my own email address, as I didn't see a way to verify the Google Plus email back in Posterous. Looks like this works for now, until the official Google APIs are available. Does anyone have other means of automatically syndicating Google Plus posts? View or comment on Jürgen Strauss's post » The Google+ project makes sharing on the web more like sharing in real-life. Join Google+

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Who is Sylvia Jansen? (Is LinkedIn becoming a Spam Magnet?)

I ask this very pertinent question via the blog post, because, what I know (and I'm only the business owner), is that LinkedIn is apparently actively hiring new staff for my company!  Sylvia is the new manager for !nnovabiz Pty Ltd in the Rotterdam Area, Netherlands.  

I could ask the same question for Robert Adams, CEO of Greater Nashville Area; Harshal Bhati, Engineer of Nagpur, India; Bbb Bhhh, Jiioo (huh?) Greece (oh, maybe it's LinkedIn's rendition of the Greek alphabet); Brian Distler, Boss of Houston, Texas; Harlyn Espanol, Sales Clerk in Philippines; Anas Idlibi, IT Manager in United Arab Emirates; Aljohn Lagne, No (huh?) in Philippines; Ryan M, mmm (doh???) Kitchener, Canada Area; Darshan Mody, Marketing, Australia; Nader Mostafa, No (another one??), Egypt; Bharat Pal, Dr, New Delhi Area, India; Justin Pfa, Huj (huh?), York, Pennsylvania; and Priya Rajesh, Research, India.

All claim on their LinkedIn profiles to be employees of Innovabiz Pty Ltd and hold current positions with my company.  

Well, since LinkedIn apparently is descending into the realms of a "Mickey Mouse" networking organisation and hiding behind privacy protection of scammers, I will have to take things into my own hands!

To all the people named above - you have 24 hours to submit to me your full annual report for the year 2010, complete with Profit and Loss statement, showing how you add value to !nnovabiz Pty Ltd.  If I don't have this report in my inbox by midnight GMT on 23 December 2010, YOU ARE FIRED!    After that, please remove !nnovabiz Pty Ltd from your employment history on your LinkedIn Profile.  Thank you.

 

Oh, and LinkedIn --- if you happen to read this and indeed, give a *&!@, perhaps you might address this situation to achieve a satisfactory outcome.  

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LinkedIn Spam

Imagine my surprise when I was notified via LinkedIn of no less than eleven new employees of my company !nnovabiz, 3 based in India, 3 in the USA, 1 in Australia (in addition to the current employees), 2 in the Philippines and 1 in the UAE!

That is going to blow out my payroll costs!  My accountant will definitely not be impressed!!

What is worse, these new employees have names that just don't reflect the right image for our company - Ningning Dong, manager chez, huj, no at, boss (just to name some).  I also have several managers, research, sales, sales clerks, IT managers, Marketing, engineer and CEO.

HELP........ how am I going to keep all these people busy and how am I going to be able to pay them?

Seriously, it would appear that LinkedIn have a spam problem.  I reported the issue to them and was notified that "The appropriate actions have been taken upon the profile."  Unfortunately, it didn't have any effect - the said employees remain in LinkedIn on the company profile.  When I enquired about what the "appropriate actions" were and pointed out that nothing had changed, I was told "Please note, we give members 10 days from our initial inquiry to make the necessary changes to their profile. If we do not receive a reply or see that the necessary changes have been made to the profile, we may take further action on the profile. For privacy reasons, I am unable to disclose the actions that may have been taken upon the profile."

So, let me see if I understand:  anyone can place a LinkedIn entry on MY company's profile without restriction, but when I question that, I'm blocked by "privacy reasons" from protecting myself and my company from fraudulent entries???

C'mon LinkedIn, get your act together!  I thought you were a serious networking site!

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Random Acts of Culture

The Knight Foundation, based in the USA, was established about a year ago to promote informed and engaged communities.  One of their initiatives involves using the arts to engage people and bring communities together.  Recently they have staged a series of "Random Acts of Culture" in public places in US cities.  Here are a couple of examples.

 

 

 

Now this is something I get excited about - surprise in the day, but in a nice way.  And what a great way to support local community talented musicians.  Now they just need to leverage all that viral marketing to help promote (and raise more money for) their foundation and the musicians.

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