LinkedIn Recommendations & Jeremiah Owyang is an interesting (and comic) article by Jason Alba looking at why you should consider requesting/giving recommendations via your LinkedIn profile.

I know there’s a lot of skepticism about LinkedIn in Australia, and it hasn’t perhaps yet proved itself here. Social network strategist Laurel Papworth recently suggested to a packed theatre full of marketing people at Marketing Now! to that perhaps Twitter was more effective/useful at this point.

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on how you view the value of these recommendations and if they replace/take place of the trusted old written reference.

I found a great resource today: The Top 100 Best Social Media Books, ever by Jurgen Appelo which is a pretty impressive feat considering he’scovered everything the novice to the expert might be intersted in and rated them all against several criteria.

I came across this list thanks to David Meerman Scott, who has no less than two books in the top 10 and (for our Australian readers) will be out in Aus in September to conduct social media masterclasses - a great opportunity to hear from the author of bestselling World Wide Rave and the new rules of Marketing and PR.
Great to see Melbournian, Darren Rowse, come in at Number 14 with Pro-Blogger: Secrets for blogging your way to a six figure income - a must for anyone who’s serious about making money out of blogging.

But if you are intersted in learning about social networks from a business and corporate point of view and how to use these tools to build and manage your reputation online you might want to have a look at Chris Brogan’s Trust Agents which I’m looking forward to reading when it arrives on my doorstep from Amazon. He’ll also be speaking this September (it’s a busy month down under) with Darren Rowse, and a heap of other other social media gurus like Laurel Papworth aka silkcharm, at the Marketing Now! conference.