The Bobcat Nation

I was just playing with my linkedin account, and it occurred to me that this could be a great way for Bobcatnation.com users to leverage our time "invested" getting to know each other on this board to also advance our business networking.

For those who haven't used it, Linkedin.com is a free website that allows you to set up a profile that essentially contains a stripped down version of your resume so that people can see what your skills are, your title, where you work, etc., etc., so that they can potentially contact you about job opportunities, industry questions, or any other kinds of social/business networking.

People can "link" to one another by both agreeing to essentially be on each other's friends list (but as it is a professional site, they aren't called "friends," and are instead called "connections.").

My connections list is heavy on the Bay Area right now, so I need more Montana folks on there (especially if I am to eventually return to Montana to do some sort of business ... not soon, but maybe eventually).

I encourage everyone to set up their own profile on linkedin -- it's pretty cool. Once you have an account, please send me an invite to be one of your connections (my real name is in the sig line of this post).

Using Bobcatnation, maybe we can all end up with an impressively large number of useful connections!

If you need my email address for any reason (as it sometimes asks you for it), just use brad@bobcatnation.com.

And don't forget, if you Link In with Brad, look for me on his connections(Randy B) and add me as a connection too!

rtb wrote:And don't forget, if you Link In with Brad, look for me on his connections(Randy B) and add me as a connection too!

Ditto that for me!

I took your advice and signed up. You should see an invitation from me. Thanks for the idea!!

tdub wrote:I took your advice and signed up. You should see an invitation from me. Thanks for the idea!!

Excellent! You are I are now connected. Feel free to pillage my connections list and send out invites to anybody you recognize -- particularly Randy and Kevin.

Bay Area Cat wrote:

tdub wrote:I took your advice and signed up. You should see an invitation from me. Thanks for the idea!!

Excellent! You are I are now connected. Feel free to pillage my connections list and send out invites to anybody you recognize -- particularly Randy and Kevin.

Wait a second, you send him an invite and not me? You cut me deep man, you cut me real deep just now.

kmax wrote:

Bay Area Cat wrote:

tdub wrote:I took your advice and signed up. You should see an invitation from me. Thanks for the idea!!

Excellent! You are I are now connected. Feel free to pillage my connections list and send out invites to anybody you recognize -- particularly Randy and Kevin.

Wait a second, you send him an invite and not me? You cut me deep man, you cut me real deep just now.

I searched for you man, tons of hits came up, but none were you. So...I figure I would wait until BAC accepted the invite and take the easy road. You know me, kmax, I'm just lazy is all.

tdub wrote:

kmax wrote:

Bay Area Cat wrote:

tdub wrote:I took your advice and signed up. You should see an invitation from me. Thanks for the idea!!

Excellent! You are I are now connected. Feel free to pillage my connections list and send out invites to anybody you recognize -- particularly Randy and Kevin.

Wait a second, you send him an invite and not me? You cut me deep man, you cut me real deep just now.

I searched for you man, tons of hits came up, but none were you. So...I figure I would wait until BAC accepted the invite and take the easy road. You know me, kmax, I'm just lazy is all.

Ain't that the truth!

Well I made it even easier and sent you the invite.

kmax wrote:

tdub wrote:

kmax wrote:

Bay Area Cat wrote:

tdub wrote:I took your advice and signed up. You should see an invitation from me. Thanks for the idea!!

Excellent! You are I are now connected. Feel free to pillage my connections list and send out invites to anybody you recognize -- particularly Randy and Kevin.

Wait a second, you send him an invite and not me? You cut me deep man, you cut me real deep just now.

I searched for you man, tons of hits came up, but none were you. So...I figure I would wait until BAC accepted the invite and take the easy road. You know me, kmax, I'm just lazy is all.

Ain't that the truth!

Well I made it even easier and sent you the invite.

All accepted.

I'll join in. I suppose I'm like anyone else - trying to get back to Bozeman! Now, if my books could only sell better and the movie based on my first book could get filmed (2008, they say)!

Edward

Sent you an invite, BAC. Funny, we were already connected. Er, well, we were each connected to someone and those two someones were connected to each other. It's like damn 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon...

Sent an invite to you Brad. Thanks

You all can add me if you would like. Joseph Hagemeister

I have sent an invite Brad, if you will have me.