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Expanding Your Network with LinkedIn
A few years into blogging on my own site, I started looking for other places I could share my writing and thinking. I had one particular publication in mind, but it was a big-name outlet that seemed unreachable. I was daunted by the challenge, but couldn’t help looking on LinkedIn to see if I knew somebody who knew somebody at the publication. While some 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections popped up, they were all too distant or tentative to ask for introductions. When I did see someone I knew well enough to ask for an introduction, his relationship to that person was too tenuous to produce a response.
Finally, after two years of intermittent searching, I found a promising opportunity: a senior executive at the ...
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