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		tptacek on June 17, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn is Evil I really like LinkedIn. It's been useful to my business a bunch of times. But I've never been tempted to pay for it. What prompted you to upgrade your account?

sam on June 17, 2008 [–]

I signed up in order to send a message to someone outside of my network.

tptacek on June 18, 2008 | | [–]

Oh. I've always wondered if that works. Did it? Did they respond?

I get a lot of mileage out of the brokered introduction feature.

sam on June 18, 2008 | | | [–]

Nope.

smock on June 17, 2008 | | [–]

Me too.

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