Connections #020 - 10,000 Contacts - Now What?
Steven Burda is a young Entrepreneur & Senior Financial Analyst with a Fortune 500 company. He’s also one of the Top 50 most-connected LinkedIn’s users, according to TopLinked.com.
As a 26-year old who has yet to realize any significant commercial benefit from his 10,000+ connections, Steven is a classic case of being ‘All Dressed Up - Nowhere to Go.’ However, he is bright, good-natured & helpful to others in his network (and obviously very popular).
What prompted me to invite Steven to appear on the show was the fact that he seems very adept at using the LinkedIn Question & Answers forum to raise his profile, with thought-provoking questions, such as ‘Why Network: Business AND Pleasure?’ - which elicited over 200 responses.
While Steven has yet to find a focus & productive outlet for his networking enthusiasm, he does have the advantage over his peers (most of all who are still on Facebook) in having made the transition to the professional environment of LinkedIn (and established a significant presence thereon) - something that will no doubt serve him well as his career develops in coming years.
Join us as we discuss a number of issues related to the Open Networker philosophy, acceptable codes of networking behaviour & and what it takes to reach the elite status of being a Top 50 LinkedIn ‘Super-Connector’.
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Thank you
Stan Relihan
Expert Executive Search: www.expertsearch.com.au
February 4th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Thank you, Stan! It is an honor and pleasure to be interviewed and featured on The Connections Show.
Wish you continued success,
-Steven Burda | burda.mba[at]gmail.com
February 4th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Hi Stan,
Awesome podcast interview. Steven is a close friend of mine & a LinkedIn guru, he actually got me interested in using LinkedIn for business to build my network.
You have a great show here, I enjoy listening to your guests.
Good Luck in the future!
February 5th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Hi Stan,
Different kind of podcast this week?
February 7th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Excellent interview.
I don’t know many people Steve’s age who have such an enlightened perpective on networking.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Stan,
Thanks for a very thought provoking podcast.
While I am not a LION, I have not fully decided against ever becoming one. Your show has been very valuable in my understanding of how LinkedIn plays a role in my life. At this point, I am trying to focus a bit more on the quality aspect than the quality. That said, I guess I have connected to a few LIONs that I have never met personally, inclusing Steven. After hearing his interview with you I am actually encouraged to reach out to him. In fact, I will drop him a line as soon as I wrap up this comment. I really like his approach and his outlook on the ever changing landscape of what we define as “employment”.
Keep them coming Stan! Thanks again.
Michael
February 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Another smart move on your part Steve! Another stroke of power networking. Great interview. Thanks for sharing.
February 11th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Great interview
Ehab
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:47 am
>>which elicited over 200 responses
First I thought WOW! but when looking at it - that question was asked 5!! months ago and is being re-opened.
There are folks on LinkedIn that got close to 200 replies within a week:
Thomas Power - 113 Answers
Ronald Wopereis - 146 Answers and 123 Answers
and
Frank Kanu - 171 Answers and 164 Answers
to name just a few.
Nothing against Steven, but I really question the value of questions that get re-opened over and over again. Go look at the question - it started 5 months ago.
How many answers would those named above have generated - had they re-open their questions constantly?
Thought provoking?
Hm, if it takes 5 months to create that amount of answers…
Ana
February 29th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Ana,
…And there are people like Bill Gates who get 1,000s of answers within hours…
http://www.linkedin.com/in/billgates
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/information-technology/computers-software/TCH_ITS_CMP/179866-21879399