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My LinkedIn Today feed right now shows a Time magazine article called Ten Buzzwords To Take Off Your LinkedIn Profile Now. You can either read through that article or read the actual list here.

I'm happy to say I, based on my definition, don't have them on my profile.

Some LinkedIn users, unfortunately, are finding new ways to abuse the system. The latest instance of this, in the form of a connection invitation, was more like a cold call than anything else:

Andrea has indicated you are a person they've done business with at QLT Recruiters 

One of the "good things" about being in a LinkedIn group is that another group member can contact you directly.

Today I got a letter from someone I don't know that is just wrong in so many ways (the names have been changed to protect the guilty):

On October 11, many people posted to Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter a Fast Company article called "5 Things To Do Every Day For Success."  I immediately decided to try it for a month (it wasn't until I set out to write this blog post that I realized the article first appeared 03/01/11 - yikes!).  I set up 5 separate tasks in Outlook, set them as high priority and set them to reoccur each work day (I gave myself the weekend off).

You know those LinkedIn connection invitations:

I'd like to add you to my professional network. - Joan (made up name).

Do I know Joan.  No. So why should I accept?

I think I've written before my rule on LinkedIn connection requests from the Detroit area: If I don't know them, I meet them first, then I'll accept.

So I wrote back to Joan: