Lara Kretler’s blog

How to know you’ve pulled off a successful event:
1. People give you thunderous applause for helping to organize it (totally unexpected and unnecessary, but way fun)
2. Lots of blog posts, Tweets and more raving about it
3. A steady stream of requests about when the next one will take place.
Yes, it’s true, the Columbus Tweetup for July was a huge [...]

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I’ve been using LinkedIn for almost five years and I just hit 500 contacts this week. Since 2004, LinkedIn has evolved from a site I used occasionally into an invaluable resource I access several times a week. LinkedIn cut short my job search when I moved to Columbus three years ago, rocketing my resume right to the president of the midwest’s [...]

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