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September 12, 2006
The truth is out there
Ian's post reminded me of my experience with leaky information. A few weeks ago I added my new founding role at Indiginox to my LinkedIn profile. Unfortunately I forgot to notice that LinkedIn sends a notification to all the people on your network when you add something (if I remember correctly it's opt-out). And so that snippet of information was also sent my current colleagues in my network. You can imagine the conversations I had at work the next morning.
Now that was my own fault. On the one hand I wanted to add the information, figuring that it would take a while before my colleagues would notice - by which time it would be public knowledge anyway - and on the other hand I also wanted to "get the news out there".
However, with our growing involvement in various type of networks it pays to take special care when adding or updating information. You may want your "news" to quickly reach certain people but not others. "Send this to all on my network != current work colleagues OR boss"
Posted by Matthew at September 12, 2006 11:12 AM