Uhmm, while that article has some useful advice, some parts of it made me feel genuinely uncomfortable. For example: "Reward the self-styled “thought leaders”

Uhmm, while that article has some useful advice, some parts of it made me feel genuinely uncomfortable. For example: "Reward the self-styled “thought leaders” in each session by adding them to your Twitter “follow” list. " Really? Part of the reason I barely use linkedin anymore is because the essays/thinkpieces people post on that site are so incredibly self indulgent and empty of content. Everyone there is so transparently trying to emulate the style and content of a Thomas Friedman column, while painting themselves in an amazing light. It's reached the point where if an article has the word 'leadership' in the title, I assume it will be garbage. I actually despise the artificiality of networking so much I wrote my own tool to optimize it and automate it, and used it at a conference I helped organize: http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e02273 http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e02273