Take a LinkedIn Holiday Break

Online Networking during the holiday season ?

Some people say NO. From emails here:

This Holiday Season - Work for Your Family NOT for LinkedIn

Why feel guilty when it's a family holiday and a slump time for business anyway:
* No one should have to take holiday time away from their families to process LinkedIn Requests and
* No one should be greeted first thing Monday morning with backed-up LinkedIn Requests and "friendly" LinkedIn Request Reminders on January 2.

Therefore, "The Pariahs of LinkedIn" have elected to support a "Guilt Free Holiday" by stopping all LinkedIn Request processing from December 24, 2005 to January 2, 2006.

So important requests should be sent either before or after the holidays, NOT DURING.  All requests sent during the holidays will be ignored, not just delayed. We recommend you alert your first degree connections about this Holiday Blackout Period by forwarding this email using either:
* Arnnei Speiser's LinkedIn Contacts Management Tool which has an easy way to send individual emails to your contacts (available here at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LICM/ ), or
* your email client's "mail merge" feature, or
* the LinkedIn Profile Update Feature

DO NOT just cut and paste all of your LinkedIn contacts into a single forwarded version of this email.  It is NOT the intent of the Pariahs to inadvertently expose LinkedIn Membership email addresses.  "The Pariahs of LinkedIn" just want LinkedIn members to have a great holiday.

                                -- Happy Holidays from "The LinkedIn Pariahs"

and here:

To my LinkedIn friends and connections...

First, I want to wish you all a happy holiday season and all the best for a peaceful, healthy and prosperous New Year!

I have been blessed with the chance to get to know so many of you this year and deeply appreciate the friendship and support that so many have given to me. I look forward to our continued relationship and to getting to know more of you better in 2006.

Secondly, I am going to take a hiatus from LinkedIn to spend time with my family on vacation this season. As I process almost 50 requests per day, I do not want to return to the pressures of a backlog of hundreds of requests to review, evaluate and forward at the start of the New Year.

Therefore, I am asking that no requests be sent through me between December 23 and January 3rd. I will not be able to process them even upon my return. Please feel free to get them all in now!

:-)

All the best, XXX

Enjoy your holidays!

Cheers, Hendrik.