Taking Radical Immersion to LinkedIn -- Too Much of a Good Thing?

Today I added the BlogLink application to my LinkedIn profile. It should pull a feed from this blog. The deed is done, although I'm wary.

There is a fine line between spamming and keeping up a relationship. If my Twitter feed goes into FaceBook status and now can be directly pulled into LinkedIn, and these posts are pulled into LinkedIn, at what point is there oversaturation?

One has to assume that there are significant overlaps among Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter populations of friends/connections/followers. My hunch is that the periodic emails that received from LinkedIn featuring changes in a person's network will start featuring the title of these blog posts for my contacts. At best, it is a low-noise, easy to delete signal that I'm a person engaged in the digital space. At worst, it will become an aggravating burr under the collective saddle of my professional network.

Like so much, it is a testable hypothesis. We'll see.

Ten Days Into the Exercise...and 50 Messages Went Out.

The big lesson so far is that I'm not nearly as intense of a social media user as I had thought.  Okay, so I have a profile on several platforms.  I Digg the stories that I like and hit the Share button on my GoogleReader for the really good bits that I see.  But the numbers are stark.  After ten days, this is only my tenth blog post.  There are only a handful of comments -- posted or in my email inbox -- and no epiphanies yet.

Alas, there is still time.  Last week I sent messages to 20 friends on Facebook to get more people involved in this conversation.  Today, I sent a message to 50 connections on LinkedIn for the same reason.  Welcome to all of you.

This post isn't full of insight or penetrating questions.  But I do have a good link for you.  Check out this short essay -- and equally important the graphics -- on the Twitter use in the U.S. Congress.  Hat tip: Steve Rubel.  Bottom line, the most influential talkers in the social media environment are the most active listeners.