Keep Your Connections in Line WIth LinkedIn Contacts

LinkedIn is a great network for maintaining your professional connections in one place. But what if it also reminded you to actually interact with your contacts?

That, and more, in today’s Social Media Roundup:

Collect Your Contacts

‘LinkedIn Contacts’ Helps You Build, Maintain Relationships by @mashable  (opens in a new tab) http://t.co/7pfPChSR6e  (opens in a new tab) #assnchat  (opens in a new tab) #eventprofs  (opens in a new tab) #pcma  (opens in a new tab)

— Jay S Daughtry M.Ed. (@ChatterBachs) April 25, 2013  (opens in a new tab)

How do you keep track of your contacts? LinkedIn Contacts, the business social network’s newest tool, integrates all your contacts from email, mobile address book, and calendar to LinkedIn. The list is accessible on the web and through a new LinkedIn Contacts iPhone app. Not only that, it reminds you of your history with each contact and reminds you when you haven’t spoken to that person for a while. “It actually shows you the folks you’ve lost touch with in your network,” Sachin Rekhi, product lead for contacts at LinkedIn, told reporters  (opens in a new tab). Unfortunately, LinkedIn Contacts is an invite-only service at the moment, but Mashable reports LinkedIn will be extending invitations to users in the coming months  (opens in a new tab). (ht @ChatterBachs  (opens in a new tab))

Keep An Open Mind

Leverage your assets: Stem the tide of declining membership http://t.co/cReCVnn8Yc  (opens in a new tab) via @XYZUniversity  (opens in a new tab) #assnchat  (opens in a new tab) #csae  (opens in a new tab)

— Greenfield Services (@GreenfieldSrvcs) April 25, 2013  (opens in a new tab)

Do you involve your younger employees in the brainstorming process? If your association is going through a generational shift among members and volunteers, involving your younger employees in planning teams and committees is a good way to get your entire staff to understand the needs of those new members. “One of the keys to success will be an open mind,” Danielle Russell, senior account executive at Base Consulting and Management, writes for XYZ University  (opens in a new tab). “Allowing generation Y to engage their peers in meaningful ways will require the leadership of professional associations to let go of ‘the way we’ve always done it’ thinking and to embrace change.” (ht @GreenfieldSrvcs  (opens in a new tab))

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